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Category: Earth Science
If all the water currently trapped in all the glaciers across the entire world melted, the sea level would rise far more than most people imagine. Almost everyone living anywhere in the world at an elevation of below about 500 feet with a direct drainage...
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Category: Climate Change
Over the last few weeks, there has been quite a bit of discussion on the Blogosphere about certain global warming related issues. Denialists have come on strong with two major and widely disseminated distortions of scientific reports and consensus, and scientists and those interested in...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
And I suspect he's done so willingly. Well, you know what they say about statistics and liars. Here's the story. The Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail independently published highly misleading and blatantly idiotic pieces on climate change. We've covered this extensively already over...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:11 PM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate Change
Brad Johnson at Think Progress has written a piece on Meteorologist Mark Johnson, of ABC's WEWS-TV in Cleveland Ohio. Johnson has apparently purposefully misrepresented data that was previously pre-misrepresented by the Daily Mail to make the statement that the earth has been cooling since 1998....
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate Change
Michael Mann, famous climate scientist, has released a book called The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (also available as a Kindle edition). I've not read it yet but I thought you'd like to know about it. Michael Mann is...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:20 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
I suspect that the complexity of global climate change is under-appreciated. If you live in a cold climate and I tell you that things will get warmer, you may see this as good news and look forward to a future where you no longer have...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LIAR!!!!
Since the Daily Mail is a British thing and the latest form of entertainment in Britain is Libel Tourism, I won't say to you that the Daily Mail is a rag full of lies and deceit. Instead, I'll let you be the judge. These studies:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:21 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate Change
An anti-science climate denialist "think" tank (the word "think" clearly does not actually applyl here) is said to have received a big chunk of money from some anonymous source, and an effort has been made to find out who that source is. This is all...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:50 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I liked Obama's State of the Union Address, and I liked the fact that a lot of other people seemed to like it. He made strong and positive statements about energy. Imagine what we could accomplish ... A future where we're in control of our...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:43 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate Change
Gleick is the new board member of the National Center for Science Education....
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:34 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
