Archive for October, 2009
Freak this pollTom Fuller has put up a push poll, here is the you are a pigeon question Which, if any, of the following statements comes closest to capturing your attitudes and opinions about
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Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal
Tags: climate change
Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal
Tags: climate change
Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal
Tags: climate change
The ethics of lying are easy; you’re off the hook. You just make up whatever suits you and see what sticks.The ethics of telling the truth are more complicated, especially if the purpose of
Edmunds corporate has issued this press release: SANTA MONICA, Calif. — October 29, 2009 – Today the Department of Transportation and White House chose to respond to an analysis
“Cap-and-trade Mirage” by Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, lawyers for the EPA, in today’s Washington Post. An excerpt: We are speaking out as parents, citizens and attorneys,
Today’s New York Times has an op-ed in defense of this Times of London piece on how we’ll have to become a world of vegetarians to “save” the planet: An excerpt: Methane is
From today’s New York Times: For a group of 20th-century leaders called the Elders — whose members include Archbishop Tutu of South Africa, former President Jimmy Carter and Mary
New York Times: European Union leaders on Friday offered to contribute money to a global fund to help developing countries tackle global warming hoping kick-start stalled talks on a new agreement
Here’s some Planet Gore background on the always entertaining Lord Monckton. And if you have the time, Watt’s Up With That? has the video from his appearance on Glenn Beck’s show.
Announcement just received (and no, I have no relationship whatsoever with the University of Georgia): POSITION: PUBLIC SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE/PUBLIC SERVICE ASSISTANT IN BIOLOGICAL and
Tags: Business, climate change, science
For decades, climate scientists have worked to identify and measure key substances — notably greenhouse gases and aerosol particles — that affect Earth’s climate. And
The march of climate change up the global agenda has prompted an often poignant conversation between the generations.
The Himalayas are melting, and the people down below need help to adapt.
Mike Powell returnsMike Powell wrote a rather detailed disambiguation of the manuscript used to shill the second OISM petition project. Mike’s analysis was originally housed on a newspaper
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Critical Review of Robinson, Robinson, and Soon’s “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”prepared by Mike Powell (December 2007)This document is a critical review of
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An objective analysis of the evidence for global warming suggests little if any anthropogenic effect, consistent with a direct radiative effect from increased CO2. It is also obvious that global
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Europe’s leaders will present a £90bn plan to cut the world’s greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen. After hours of wrangling at the EU
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If you are tired of having everybody trying to tell you what you think, and especially if what you think isn't what's being reported, I heartily encourage you to take this survey.
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If you are tired of having everybody trying to tell you what you think, and especially if what you think isn't what's being reported, I heartily encourage you to take this survey.
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Welcome back to those of you who just finished the survey–if you haven't taken it yet, go here and click on the link! The point I'm trying to clarify in this survey is not who your
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Ray’s excellent takedown of Freakonomics in RealClimate has me shaking my head about people’s abilities to discuss even the arithmetic, never mind the algebra or calculus or statistics,
Last week the Pew Center released a new poll regarding the “Changing Opinions About Global Warming.” The polls are certainly telling, if not alarming: in April 2008 71% of Americans
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The EU has proposed that rich countries should transfer up to €50bn a year by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change, but stopped short of stating how much it was willing to
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Yesterday's Marketplace report does an excellent job of highlighting the social and political fissures occurring in West Virginia and nationally as the United States starts in earnest the
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The UK Government has been at the forefront of AGW for a long time now. All in good intent and fully based on scientific evidence, of course. Anybody needing any further “proof” of
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Advanced Head Banger (second semester work)Eli is assigning this to his classVia LGM and pharyngula
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Polar bears and other ice-dependent species could survive if we act now to limit and manage human activity in the Arctic
Global concentrations of greenhouse gases Research posted in the Journal Science and led by Drew Shindell from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) claim that too much of the
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