A Few Things Ill Considered
Archives for October, 2008
Urban Heat Island: Reno, Nevada
Posted by coby on October 29, 2008 Anthony Watts has a post up purporting to show a very large UHI effect in Reno, Nevada.
Whores to Industry
Posted by coby on October 28, 2008 Over at DesmogBlog, I saw an interesting video that covers some of the history of climate change denialism, starting with its roots in tobacco-lung cancer denialism. Interesting how some of the names are so familiar, such as Steve Milloy and Myron Ebel.
“Skeptics use a scatter shot approach, using one kind of physics to ‘disprove’ one aspect and an opposing kind of physics to ‘disprove’ another. You need to have an internally consistent argument.” As Jen’s site [Jennifer Marohasey's site] demonstrates so well, you don’t need anything of the sort. Check out Eli Rabett’s post about how…
Laugh, Don’t Cry
Posted by coby on October 27, 2008 From the “Laugh, Don’t Cry” department, Tamino has a bit of fun at the expense of, well, quite a few!
Another Week of GW News, October 26, 2008
Posted by coby on October 27, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose… This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup
It’s not really that hard to understand
Posted by coby on October 22, 2008 “It’s not really that hard to understand” is the catch phrase in this YouTube video featuring Herman Daly, the subject is the insanity of the economic cult of perpetual growth: I got this from the most recent posting at Things Break, which you should read and be sure to follow the links.
The other carbon dioxide problem
Posted by coby on October 22, 2008 At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory there is a news article posted yesterday that discusses “the other carbon dioxide problem.” That problem is, of course, ocean acidification.
What is the evidence that CO2 is causing global warming?
Posted by coby on October 21, 2008 As you can imagine, the How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic guide attracts a lot of comment from people who are less than inclined to agree with the general thrust of the material. Most can be easily answered with a pointer to another article or a rephrasing or expansion on one of the points…
Global warming comes from within
Posted by coby on October 20, 2008 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: We all live on a thin crust that floats on a huge ball of molten iron, and at its core, the Earth’s temperature is over 5000oC! It’s…
Another Week of GW News, October 19, 2008
Posted by coby on October 20, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose… This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup