Archive for September, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency plan, long anticipated and highly controversial, would regulate emissions from thousands of power plants.
If our civilisation collapses, what will happen to the planet itself? The best way to work that out might be like is to look back at the Earth’s past
Thanks to all for continuing to visit in spite of the absence of posts. My injury was more severe than I thought at first. However, my wife is willing to help with typing so I hope to post
Tags: global warming
Thus spoke Bill Patzert, an oceanographer and climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California on Sep 28. 2009: A macho El Niño like that of 1997-1998 is off the
Tags: AGW, Catastrophism, climate change, Culture, Data, Droughts, El Nino, El Nino/La Nina, ENSO, floods, global warming, james hansen, JPL, Phil Jones, Skepticism, The Independent
The draft of a bill that Senate Democrats will introduce Wednesday increases an interim target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Several responsible members of the United States Chamber of Commerce are quitting because of the chamber’s attacks on legislation to curb emissions.
Who could have guessed…journalists are third from bottom in the list of trusted public figures in the UK, a poll has just shown. A great progress indeed (they had the pride of last place
Tags: AGW, BBC, British journalism, climate change, Culture, Daily Telegraph, global warming, Guardian, Humor, Independent, journalists, politics, science
Chemists first theorized the process commonly referred to as “ocean acidification” in the 1970s, but only during the past few years have researchers begun to fully appreciate the
Tags: Joanie Kleypas, NCAR, NOAA, ocean acidification, Policy, research, Yale Climate Forum
The Union of Soviet Climate Change Writers - a guest blog by Geoff Chambers I have an unhealthy obsession with Guardian Environment and their Climate Change web site. As the unofficial voice of the
Tags: AGW, Catastrophism, climate change, Culture, global warming, Guardian, literature, Monbiot, science, Skepticism, United Kingdom
As I work on finishing our forcing/feedback paper for re-submission to Journal of Geophysical Research – a process that has been going on for months now – I keep finding new pieces of evidence
Tags: Blog Article, Roy Spencer
or “On The Surface Of The Moon, a Four-billion-year Record of Solar Activity Awaits Us” [UPDATE : More evidence of the "imprint" of solar wind into lunar soil] In her 2007 article
Tags: climate change, Data, global warming, lunar exploration, Moon, regolith, science, solar influence, solar physics, Sun
LONG AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT NOW IMPERILS CITIES Date: (try to guess!) (Reuters) – A drought that has parched Australia’s rich eastern farmlands for the last few years is now forcing the
Tags: Australia, climate change, Data, drought, dust storm, global warming, Skepticism, Sydney
Coral Atolls and Sea Level Rise - a guest blog by Willis Eschenbach Much has been written of late regarding the impending demise of the world’s coral atolls due to sea level rise. Recently,
or…”Climate Belief In Disarray” Front-page article today by Andrew C Revkin on the International Herald Tribune about the problem of “selling” any urgency for
Tags: AGW, Andrew C Revkin, Catastrophism, climate change, climate forecasts, Climateprogress, Cooling, Culture, global cooling, global warming, Joe Romm, Met Office, Policy, science, Skepticism
UK Prime Minister (unelected) Gordon Brown, whose ascent to power has sadly coincided with the start of the global financial crisis, has given a little less than three minutes of his time to a
Tags: 12:18, Avaaz, Catastrophism, climate change, Culture, flash move, global warming, Gordon Brown, Policy, politics
(a slightly different Italian version of the below has been published by Climate Monitor) Skeptically-challenged AGWers are hardly the best examples of tolerance. Arguably, some among them don’t
Tags: Bayle, Bodei, climate change, Culture, Dissent, Freedom, global warming, intolerance, Leopardi, science, scientific method, Skepticism, tolerance, Vassallo
On the heels of the Plimer debacle, deep among the comments to one of Monbiot’s blogs our own Geoff Chambers has “discovered” this new invitation for a debate, by Peter Taylor,
Tags: Chill, climate change, Dissent, george monbiot, global warming, Peter Taylor, politics, science, Skepticism
A couple of interesting “greenie” articles…if only because one doesn’t have to follow through to each and everyone of their conclusions to agree with their observations:
Tags: climate change, CO2 Emissions, Culture, Freedom, global warming, greenwash, Orion magazine, Policy, politics, RISMedia
For the moment, just a graph:
Tags: global warming
(this in response to yet another tired thread full of “but the findings of so-and-so have not been peer-reviewed!“) I think I understand it now…it’s like a new
Tags: AGW, climate change, Culture, Data, Dissent, dogma, global warming, Pastafarians, Peeritarians, Policy, Religion, science, Skepticism
I have just been at a beautiful presentantion at the British Interplanetary Society in London, by Jessica Housden of EADS-Astrium about the upcoming ESA “EarthCARE” satellite (beautiful
Tags: Aerosols, AGW, Astrium, climate change, climate modeling, Climate models, clouds, Data, EADS, Earth observations, EarthCARE, global warming, greenhouse effect, Jessica Housden, science
More almost-pure nonsense about AGW and health, this time even bigger than last time, from two famous medical journals and 18 professional medical organizations. The contents of their latest
Tags: AGW, BMJ, Catastrophism, climate change, Culture, Data, global warming, Health, Lancet, Policy, politics, Public Health, science, Skepticism
Questioning the soundness of climate-related science should not be the realm solely of climate skeptics. That’s what makes the following even more welcome. “Get the science straight on
Tags: AGW, Alarmism, Catastrophism, climate change, climate porn, CO2 Emissions, Culture, Data, Development, disease, Dissent, global warming, greenhouse effect, IPCC, Policy, politics, SciDev.net, science, Skepticism, Warming
It is clear that George Monbiot has made himself the loser by not agreeing to publicly debate with Ian Plimer about global warming in London in November. The rule is very simple and universal: a
Tags: AGW, Catastrophism, Chris Colose, climate change, Culture, Dissent, Gavin Schmidt, george monbiot, global warming, Greenfyre, greenhouse effect, ian plimer, Policy, politics, science, Skepticism, Tamino, Tim Lambert
Alternative titles: “Dear George, In Any Sport, No-Show Means Automatic Loss“, and “Don’t Mention Gish If You Can’t Debate ================ I am not at all surprised
Tags: AGW, Catastrophism, climate change, CO2 Emissions, Culture, Debate, Dissent, Gavin Schmidt, george monbiot, GHG, global warming, greenhouse effect, ian plimer, Policy, politics, science, Skepticism, Spectator
I noted in this post that the GISS data since 1975 show a seasonal pattern (an annual cycle) in spite of being temperature anomaly. This is because they’re anomaly relative to a 1951-1980
Tags: global warming
Andy Revkin at DotEarth’s “Welcome to Earth’s ‘New’ Ocean: The Arctic” (about the navigation of the “Northeast Passage” by two German ships) has not yet found
Tags: AGW, Andrew C Revkin. Dot Earth, Arctic, Catastrophism, climate change, Freedom, GHG, global warming, Northeast passage, Policy, politics, science, Skepticism, Warming
MacGruber! Makin’ lifesaving inventions out of household materials MacGruber! Gettin’ in and out of ultra-sticky situations MacGruber! The guy’s a friggin’
Tags: global warming
The Duning-Kruger effect evidently exists. This post is not an attempt to debunk it: rather, it’s a plea for DK not to be abused. Anybody and everybody can use a variant of the following:
Tags: affirming the consequent, climate change, Duning-Kruger, Freedom, global warming, logical fallacy, Policy, politics, Skepticism
Gaze into the crystal ball … Specifically, let’s forecast global average temperature for the remainder of the year. Many people are expecting temperatures to increase because
Tags: global warming