Urban Heat Island: Reno, Nevada
Category: debunking
Anthony Watts has a post up purporting to show a very large UHI effect in Reno, Nevada....
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October 29, 2008
Category: debunking
Anthony Watts has a post up purporting to show a very large UHI effect in Reno, Nevada....
Posted by coby at 9:39 AM • 11 Comments •
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...
Posted by coby at 9:06 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: humour
"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...
Posted by coby at 8:08 AM • 3 Comments •
October 27, 2008
Category: humour
From the "Laugh, Don't Cry" department, Tamino has a bit of fun at the expense of, well, quite a few!...
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Category: news
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...
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October 22, 2008
Category: editorial
"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...
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Category: science
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....
Posted by coby at 8:15 AM • 4 Comments •
October 21, 2008
Category: editorial
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...
Posted by coby at 9:32 AM • 42 Comments •
October 20, 2008
Category: sceptic guide
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...
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Category: news
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...
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