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Category: news
Just wondering how the conspiracy theories about the climatological-industrial complex handle this: Funding cut for UK climate research? Hadley's climate research was not alarmist enough?...
Posted by coby at 5:30 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Announcements
James Hansen was arrested today for trespassing at a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining in Coal River Valley, West Virginia. Today Top Climate Scientist James Hansen and Actress Daryl Hannah were Arrested in Effort to Stop Mountaintop Removal Also...
Posted by coby at 1:48 PM • 29 Comments •
Category: roundup
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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Category: roundup
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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Category: mainstream media
This just reported today from the Washington Post:...
Posted by coby at 12:08 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: news
If you're in the same boat as I am (ie, you have a job and/or a life) you probably never get a chance to read every last article linked to in the latest "Another Week of GW news" posting (or...
Posted by coby at 1:02 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: debunking
Things Break does a thorough take-down of George Will's continued dishonesty in the Washington Post. For the background, if somehow you have missed this kerfuffle, check his earlier post. The story in a nutshell is not remarkable: mainstream columnist prints...
Posted by coby at 1:56 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: news
Well, the good news is a recent finding of 740,000 year old permafrost in the Canadian arctic. What this suggests is that the permafrost may be more resilient than previously thought. If this ice is 740Kyr old, then it did...
Posted by coby at 8:30 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: cryosphere
Despite the familiarity of this headline, it actually only became news today (and is still a little uncertain). The National Snow and Ice Data Centre is today anouncing the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has reached its minimum extent...
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Category: news
Hurricane Gustav is taking aim at the coast of Louisiana. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground is the goto place for the details of this storm. If I am reading it all right, Gustav will be a major hurricane when it...
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