Archive for July, 2009
Mercurius has listed the things AGW denialists will accept as evidence: 1) Nothing that was recorded by instruments such as weather-stations, ocean buoys or satellite data. Since all instruments
Tags: global warming
Temperature explains much of why cold-blooded organisms such as fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and lizards live longer at higher latitudes than at lower latitudes, according to new research.
New Delhi will not discuss signing up to legally binding obligations to make absolute cuts in greenhouse gas emissions for at least 10 years, said the country’s environment minister
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“We’re slogging ahead…I’m not going to kid anybody; I don’t think it’s easy. But I do think that we will get there.” After two days of high-level talks in
You probably hadn’t noticed, but the head shape and overall size of rodents has been changing over the past century. Ecologists have tied these changes to human population density and climate
Using new data from coral fossils and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements, which allows scientists to reconstruct sea level fluctuations in response to changing climate for the
There is a fight going on in the coastal region of Raigad, in the state of Maharashtra.
Tags: climate change
A type of insurance called index insurance offers significant opportunities as a climate-risk management tool in developing countries, according to a new article.
As predicted (Update below)Eli has always been pretty good at figuring out where the fruitcake will be deposited, so a couple of weeks ago when he pointed to an editorial by Rudy Baum in C&E
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Drastic action to stop a potential multi-billion-pound fraud was taken when officials imposed a zero rate of VAT on the allowances issued as part of a scheme to curb greenhouse gas emissions
Tags: financial times
If one person says the world is round and another says the world is flat, journalists are not supposed to write "Opinions on the shape of the earth differ." We are supposed to
Much as I hate to link to Morano, and much as I hate participating in the “news cycle”, here’s another denialist tactic that demands a quick response.Rudy Baum has published a
Sure, accidentally heating the planet has been pretty easy. But try intentionally heating a plot of forest, and you get a whole other story. In this week’s Nature, we take a brief look at a
A charred region of the Arctic is pumping large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, finds an ecological assessment
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) released a graph showing the different projections for the Arctic sea ice minimum that will occur sometime in September. The researchers make
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Northern peatlands, typical for subarctic Scandinavia and Russia, contain one third of the world’s soil organic carbon. How much extra carbon these soils will release to the atmosphere, through
Asking for American opinions is sometimes interesting, especially when the questions regard geography or the age of the Earth. I’m not automatically willing to point to a poll and
Those who promote the theory that mankind is responsible for global warming have been working for the past 20 years on a revisionist climate history. A history where climate was always in a
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It’s an early Christmas for AGW skeptics in the UK with the BBC all of a sudden abandoning it’s monolithic “the world will turn into cinder” orthodoxy. Step forward Stephen
Tags: BBC, Catastrophism, climate change, Culture, global warming, Met Office, Piers Corbyn, Roger Harrabin
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As ministers have sounded the fanfare for hundreds of thousands of ‘green jobs’, the demise of the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight has provided a mocking counterpoint
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When Peter Sinclair made Anthony Watts the subject of his “Climate Crock of the week” video, Watts response was to attempt to suppress the criticism by making a bogus copyright claim
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Sitting cross-legged on the harbour, one hand steadying the prow of his boat, Sahijid’s pink shirt is unbuttoned at the neck, a woven reed hat with a painted blue brim keeping the sun from his
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A new study, which was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research indicates that most of the global warming and cooling late in the 20th century was caused by natural climate
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Forecasters warned today of the pitfalls of predicting the weather a long way in advance after the British summer has so far failed to live up to expectations.
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Time for a new open thread. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post…
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The Met Office is today telling us what every Briton knows: it was wrong to raise summertime hopes.
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Patio heaters might impress Dragons, but green credentials are hot air | Fred Pearce
Eddie Middleton told the Dragons’ Den his electric heaters produce less CO2 than the gas version. But can it be true? Anybody watching the BBC’s Dragons’ Den a couple of weeks
Tags: Carbon emissions, Comment, Energy, Environment, guardian.co.uk