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June 26, 2009
This has been an open tab in Firefox for a long time now, so I figure I had better just point people to it and be done with it...
James Hrynyshyn (love that last name, but only because computers have copy and paste!) has an interesting comparison of two interviews on Island of Doubt (note to self:…
June 23, 2009
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 arrested was former Representative Ken…
June 23, 2009
As per a request from comments here is an open thread for whatever might be on your minds. The request came when once again touching on the issue of 21st century temperatures. I have tried once, twice, three times in posts and so many others times in comments but this argument will likely not die…
June 22, 2009
This press release was forwarded to me:
WASHINGTON-- A new study published today in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that refrigerant chemicals, so
called F-gases, are a more dangerous global warming threat than previously
predicted. The study was authored by…
June 22, 2009
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
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... June 21, 2009 Chuckle, Top…
June 21, 2009
Remember back in May and early June when the denialists were gleefully proclaiming arctic sea ice had recovered to the 1979-2000 average, and by induction global warming must be over?
Well, gee, I wonder where they are now, now that arctic sea ice this month is near the June 2007 mark. 2007 was of…
June 21, 2009
Just like those national debt clocks showing you dollar by dollar how high it is, this site has a "Carbon Counter" showing how many metric tons of carbon have been released into the atmosphere.
As I post this, we are at 3,642,255,344,781. No wait, now its 3,642,255,367,521...no, it's 3,642,255,381…
June 17, 2009
Via MT, I came across a most excellent and interesting essay by Herman Daly on the Oil Drum (one of those great and meaty blogs that I only wich I had the time to read everything on!)
The subject is how to establish a steady state economy versus the current paradigm based on the fantasy of eternal…
June 16, 2009
Of all the myriad climate skeptic arguments out there, the argument that the current rise in CO2 is not human caused truly is one of the most ridiculous positions one could take.
(Please note, I am not saying it is ridiculous to consider, we should consider everything, but like wondering if the…
June 15, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News June 14, 2009 Top Stories: Bonn, USA & China, REDD, Peru,…
June 11, 2009
I think I will start to close down comments on some of the guide articles as the comment threads get too long and meandering, and instead direct people from there to dedicated "open threads".
So consider this the first implementation of that idea for the article "CO2 Lags, not leads". Comments…
June 10, 2009
Tim Lambert over at Deltoid has a great illustration of how denialists play the telephone game.
It basically goes like this:
NASA: "New study confirms greenhouse gases, not the sun, are causing the current climate change"
Denialist 1: "NASA confirms that the sun is causing the current climate…
June 9, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition June 7, 2009 Chuckle,…
June 3, 2009
So nicely coinciding with a period in which I have no time, I have had a burst of over 100 comments in the last week, lately on the temperature record reliability attack article. (Yeah, I know it no PZ Meyers level of activity, but it is all relative, right?)
For the first time in my illustrious…
June 1, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News May 31, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:MEF, Nobel Laureates, AGU Joint…
May 25, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News May 24, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:UNFCCC Negotiating Text, MIT…
May 23, 2009
By the by, I have another post up on The Energy Grid called The Blame Game.
This week's question is one of finding fault. What brought us to the current confluence of crises? Was it a failure of the political, or the technological?
Unlike the beltway pundits and the political scoundrels they defend…
May 19, 2009
I get tons of drive by attacks on the HTTTACS articles and most are pretty thoughtless repetitions of everything we've heard a hundred times before, and often posted directly underneath their own refutations.
But occasionally there are seemingly very sincere and well posed questions or arguments…
May 18, 2009
A recent comment, here, questions the AGW prediction of polar amplification. He cites a paper by Polyakov et al that he claims shows temperatures in the arctic were warmer than they are now earlier in the 20th century.
[Update: paper is here[PDF]]
I don't have access to the paper or time to…
May 18, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... May 17, 2009 Chuckle, World…
May 14, 2009
Science Blogs has a new special blog on sustainable energy called The Energy Grid. It is a short term project, planned to run a few months, where each of the six contributors posts once per week on a subject introduced on Sunday.
I am flattered to have been asked to contribute and you can read my…
May 11, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News May 10, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:Aus-ETS, Sol, Melting Arctic,…
May 8, 2009
It seems that the HTTTACS was referred to by a parlimentary member in the Scottish Parliment, so it is now part of the official record!
The link there was to the version on Grist.org, which last I checked is a bit out of date, but no matter...
(Apropos of nothing, I just got a kick out of that…
May 4, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Another Week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is…
May 1, 2009
It`s kind of nice to hear an expert in the field making the same observation I often have about the economic arguments that swirl around the climate policy debates.
Specifically, opponents to mitigation policy have no trouble relying on the magic of the market and technology to rescue us from any…
April 28, 2009
Ok, so I have to do it, I`m adding Denial Depot to my blogroll in a new section, _The lighter side of catastrophe_.
I know I will probably regret it, but I just can`t help having a little fun while I`m over there.....
April 27, 2009
Sipping from the internet firehose...
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News April 26, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:CARB-LCFS, Indigenous Peoples…
April 25, 2009
Okay, so this is way off the general climate topic, but I really got a kick out of this article from Bill Maher published in the LA Times.
If Al Franken can be a senator, why can`t Bill Maher be an LA Times columnist?
Here are a few notable quotables:
The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is not…
April 24, 2009
Now this is good stuff!
A big thanks to Eli Rabett for finding this site!
Here are a few favorite highlights:
Why are the so-called experts silent about all the snow that is everywhere?
Well it's most likely because they are all shut indoors all day with their climate models. That's right, they are…
April 23, 2009
Things Break does a nice job documenting the way Rupert Murdoch uses his media empire to disseminate misinformation.
A recent commenter pointed me to one of the articles in that chain, but I really did not give it much thought, it seemed like such a shrug of a story. Nothing new happening and it…