It's not enough to bash in heads, you have to bash in minds
Recently a ‘Team B’, to analyze climate science was proposed by William Happer of the Marshall Institute, it was largely ignored, probably because Happer isn’t taken seriously by anyone, but it gained some prominence when it was endorsed by Judith Curry, she does command some respect even if of late she has shown off her... Continue Reading →
There really isn’t anything new here. Just the fact that, despite what deniers and the media have been saying, the consensus that human greenhouse gas emissions are causing the climate to warm is getting stronger all the time. However there is a great summary of why we know that it is our GHG emissions, and... Continue Reading →
From America's finest news source: Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming (h/t Andrew Weaver on Facebook)
Remember last months when deniers were cheering this graph: Remember how this was used as proof that arctic sea ice had recovered, despite the fact that sea ice volume has continued to decline. Well now the deniers who were once championing the sea ice has recovered meme, are wilfully ignoring the updated version of the... Continue Reading →
This video (language NSFW, in case you can’t tell from the post title) has been making the rounds: I can't vouch for the accuracy of this video (what the hell do I know about oil booming?), but it didn't set off any bullshit meters.
These pictures are from February… I forgot I hadn’t uploaded them. Here are the rest of the pics:
Something is very wrong in the Gulf of Mexico…
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.
Joe Romm brings word that the Wall Street Journals, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, who all have no trouble printing denier non-sense, rejected printing the open letter signed by over 250 members of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author, Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick had this to say: We sent... Continue Reading →
The very curious thing about this is, if it is the atmosphere that is melting the ice; 9/10 of the ice is below the water; so how exactly is the atmosphere gonna be melting the ice -Norm Kalmanovitch, Friends of Science, 11 May 2010
Peer Sinclair addresses the bat question, and many more, in his second movie on wind power: I do think that the bat problem can, and will be solved.
In 2002 there was a global agreement to slow biodiversity loss by 2010. We failed, and biodiversity is still declining at an alarming rate. Here is a recent article abstract from Science: In 2002, world leaders committed through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss... Continue Reading →
A little extra carbon dioxide in the air may, unfortunately, go further towards warming Earth than previously thought. A team of British and U.S. researchers have uncovered evidence that Earth’s climate may be up to 50 percent more sensitive to long-term increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide than current climate models predict. The reason for the... Continue Reading →
The recent open letter signed by over 250 members of the National Academies of science, was just the latest in a string of letters that have been written since the CRU email leak. May, 2010 statement from 255 members of the US National Academy of Sciences defending the integrity of climate science, and condemning "McCarthy-like... Continue Reading →
Along with the open letter from over 250 members of the National Academy of Science, the journal Science has published an editorial by Brooks Hanson the deputy editor for physical sciences. It takes a different tone than the original: The scientific community must recognize that the recent attacks stem in part from its culture and... Continue Reading →
University of Virginia Faculty Senate Executive Council condemns Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli’s investigation into Michael Mann, and warns of the the potential chilling effect: Dr. Mann is an internationally respected and highly cited climate scientist. The funding he received for his research resulted from impartial, stringent peer review by respected independent scientists under the auspices... Continue Reading →
An open letter published in Science and signed by over 250 members of the National Academies of Science calls on climate-change deniers to cease with the personal and political attacks and focus on the facts. And those facts are that there is “compelling, comprehensive, and consistent objective evidence that humans are changing the climate in... Continue Reading →
Peter Sinclair has made another video: A few years ago, I wrote about the possible environmental costs of window power (personally I am more concerned about bat deaths than bird deaths), and suggested that we cannot ignore those costs. Awareness of the problems of wind power has helped reduce them, and there is great potential... Continue Reading →
It started with Senator James Inhofe's claim that he was looking into for ways to prosecute and criminalize more than a dozen leading climate scientists: Senator James Inhofe, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has gone a step beyond promoting his long-notorious global warming denialist propaganda. He is now using the resources... Continue Reading →
Hacking emails is bad: A 22-year-old economics student is reported to be facing a maximum of 20 years in prison and a fine of $500,000 (£331,000) after being convicted last Friday of hacking into Sarah Palin's private Yahoo! email account and posting some of the contents online while she was campaigning to become the Republican... Continue Reading →
The oil leak from the now sunk deep oil horizon is estimated at 42000 gallons per day, and is visible from space A new image taken by a NASA satellite captures the extent of a major oil spill triggered by the explosion aboard an offshore oil rig about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in... Continue Reading →
One of the key criticisms of the Oxburgh inquiry was that it ignored three key papers written by people at CRU, but these papers are only being considered key because they were not investigated. Had they been looked at, other papers would have been declared key. The Oxburgh report considered some but not all CRU... Continue Reading →
Bashing economists is commonplace within the environmental movement, and while some of the criticisms are justified, they need to to put into proper context. The fact is that a large majority of economists agree that we need to cut our greenhouse gas emissions and that placing a price on carbon (be it via a carbon... Continue Reading →
The UN conference at Copenhagen was a failure. Despite the fact that the Copenhagen Accord agreed last December has a stated aim of keeping global warming to below 2°C, and reviewing a 1.5°C goal by 2015 the emission targets set by the accord almost guarantee that that wont happen. A recent paper published in Nature... Continue Reading →
Andrew Weaver has been the recipient of some rather nasty commentary from some less respectable members of the Canadian press writing in the National Post. This sector of the press has over the years, but especially since the CRU email leak, shown a consistent disregard for reality. Weaver feels that his reputation is being unfairly... Continue Reading →
More stupid arguments from deniers. This time they claim that the IPCC thinks the earth is flat: All of the computer models of the climate have adopted the flat earth theory of the earth's energy, as portrayed in Kiehl J. T. and K. E. Trenberth 1997. Earth’s Annual Global Mean Energy Budget. Bull. Am. Met.... Continue Reading →
Yet when it comes to coverage of global warming, we are trapped in the logic of a guerrilla insurgency. The climate scientists have to be right 100 percent of the time, or their 0.01 percent error becomes Glaciergate, and they are frauds. By contrast, the deniers only have to be right 0.01 percent of the... Continue Reading →
The idea that there is a massive lack of integrity in the science community, coming from the sources that are accusing them of that, politicians and right-wing blogs, is just ludicrous. They are projecting their own conspiratorial behavior and their own lack of scientific integrity onto the science community -Rick Piltz Director of CSW
Volcanoes just aren’t that large a source of CO2. Via Information is beautiful. UPDATE: The other question that keeps popping up about the Eyjafjallajokul eruption, is its potential cooling effect on the climate. So can we expect cooling? Not likely, according to Rutgers University environmental sciences professor Alan Robock, an expert on how volcanoes alter... Continue Reading →
It is well known that the IPCC projections for sea-level rise are low. There are many reasons for this, but perhaps the main reason is the fact that the IPCC basically ignore sea-level rise contributions from the melting Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: The IPCC range assumes a near-zero net contribution of the Greenland and... Continue Reading →
The Canadian Conservatives, much like the Liberals before them, have a long tradition of inaction on the climate change front. And that inaction shows no sign of stopping: Environment Minister Jim Prentice is signalling further delays in imposing greenhouse gas emission standards on the oil sector and other industries, saying Ottawa does not want to... Continue Reading →
Peter Sinclair has done a great job debunking Lord Monckton’s many false claims, in his great Climate Crock of the Week series. Part 1 And Part 2 More from that debate from Tim Lambert: Not to mention he thinks people who accept mainstream science are Nazis: After calling a group of young people from Sustain... Continue Reading →
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