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Category: editorial
Did you ever wonder just how it can be possible that the same, thousand times debunked, climate "skepticisms" keep re-emerging, month after month, year after year? Obviously, there are those individuals (like Singer and Soon), organizations (like HeartlessLand), and media...
Posted by coby at 2:00 PM • 102 Comments •
Category: CO2
"Coolest Billboard Ever?" asks a HuffPost article posted a couple of days ago. The billboard certainly seems "greenie". I mean come on, it is not just made out of renewable resources, it is one! It's alive. It breathes. It photosythesizes....
Posted by coby at 11:13 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: other blogs
Forced climate change causes global warming as a response, not the other way around. We all focus on globally and seasonally averaged mean temperature, and though it is a very coarse measure, there are some justifiable reasons. But as a...
Posted by coby at 10:37 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: editorial
There is a very interesting article on Nature.com that provides an example of something a bit uncommon in the climate wars: an intelligent and well reasoned disagreement with the IPCC. (h/t to Climate Etc.)...
Posted by coby at 3:50 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: politics
The Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, has resigned, finally relenting to weeks of massive protests. Is he the latest casualty of climate change?...
Posted by coby at 12:07 PM • 181 Comments •
Category: editorial
Judith Curry has become quite a blog sensation, and did so long before starting her own. I have expressed my frustration with her in the past for a seemingly reckless affinity for "hit and run" postings. I will appreciatively grant...
Posted by coby at 8:02 AM • 12 Comments •
Category: editorial
Really great essay here, by Stephan Lewandowsky, on scientific uncertainty and manufacturing doubt....
Posted by coby at 9:57 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: multi-media
A few days ago, an environmental organization from England released what can charitably be called an appaling video in support of their campaign to reduce carbon emission 10% per year starting now, in 2010. The group is called 10:10 and...
Posted by coby at 7:20 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: editorial
So over at Keith Kloor's place, we see Keith read a comment of Michael Tobis', (read it for your self here) in which he says: "Adaptation is crucial" and "adaptation and mitigation are not a tradeoff. They are two faces...
Posted by coby at 9:12 AM • 42 Comments •
Category: editorial
This, from adelady, is so well put I just had to highlight it. It is a response to the usual "we'll just deal with whatever climate change throws at us later" inactivist argument: The one thing we do have in...
Posted by coby at 5:15 PM • 8 Comments •
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