From Yahoo! News: PARIS (AFP) – Evidence for global warming has mounted but public awareness of the threat has shrunk, due to a cold northern winter and finger-pointing at the UN’s climate experts, a top scientist warned Wednesday. “That gap has increased substantially in the last year,” Hansen told a press conference during a visit [...]
Archive for the ‘Gobal Warming’ Category
30 Apr
Artic Heating Up in a Snowball Effect
From the New York Times: Now climate researchers have detected such a feedback loop at work in the Arctic. It is well known that the region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Yet scientists have yet to agree on why. Some have theorized that warmer air from the south was responsible, while others [...]
27 Apr
Climate Change and Climate Certainty
From the New York Times: April 27, 2010, 2:05 pm On Climate Certainty and Climate Credibility By ANDREW C. REVKIN In 2003, Judith Curry, a climate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the following passage in a submission to a federal effort aimed at charting how to reduce uncertainties in the science pointing [...]
26 Apr
Oil Companies and Climate Change
Why do the climate change skeptics always accuse climate scientists of being biased, either becasue they are liberal socialists who want to change the world or they are being funded by liberal socialists who want to change the world, and yet never mention the role oil companies are playing in influencing the science of climate [...]
26 Apr
From The National Research Council: Oceans In Trouble
A new study from the NRC, one of the most prestigous, if not the most prestigous scientific association in the United States: Study: Oceans’ Chemistry Changing Rapidly Posted: April 22, 2010 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON—The chemistry of the oceans is changing faster than it has in hundreds of thousands of years because [...]
22 Apr
Climate vs. Weather
An exellent blog post from the New York Times. Brief and to the point. Pitfalls of a Blue Sky Perspective April 22, 2010, 4:39 pm <!– — Updated: 4:41 pm –>Pitfalls of a Blue-Skies Perspective By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Getty Images A lone plane flying low over central London on Tuesday. From the ground, there was no indication [...]
22 Apr
Brian Sussman-TV Meterologist and Author of Climategate
I’m sitting here now and listening to Crosstalk on VCY America. Jim Schneider is interviewing a guy by the name of Brian Sussman. He is a conservative TV weatherman who has written a book claiming that all of global warming science is a hoax. I’ve been searching on the internet for information about him and [...]
20 Apr
Yet Another Source Reporting On CO2 Reduction of the Iceland Volcano
Volcanoes are pointed to by global warming skeptics as a much larger source of CO2 emissions than humans. As the graphic in an earlier post pointed out, that is not the case with the Iceland Volcano. Here is another report on the emissions of the volcano which support that graphic. One point I should make, however, [...]
19 Apr
Fox News Reports: IPCC Report Gets an “F” from Critics
It may be time for the United Nations’ climate-studies scientists to go back to school. And they gave 21 of the report’s 44 chapters a grade of “F.” The team, recruited by the climate-change skeptics behind the website NoConsensus.org, found that 5,600 of the 18,500 sources in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Nobel Prize-winning [...]
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