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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) August 10, 2008 Top Stories:UK Warming, Tropical Rainfall, Forest CO2, Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics…
Again, just because!
Love that music, too. I heard that on SBS in Tasmania in 2001 and struggled hard to find out what it was but never did. Now I know, "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest (this video has a different version). Waiting for the CD now.
Dr Meryl Nass runs down the evidence.
Not very convincing....
Fed up of trying to decide who to believe in the endless blog wars over climate science? Well, don't despair and don't rely on third parties you may know little about, instead educate yourself!
That link is to a very handy page over at Things Break that lists some great resources for learning the…
What would adapting to climate change be like? A picture is worth a thousand words:
But a second picture is worth a few thousand more!
I saw the kids protecting their families from the rising tide at the beach and thought it was an amusing analogy. The running-away photo was just an unforeseen…
So, Pielke Jr's blog, Prometheus has a new look. Congratulations!
But just a minute...they have also changed the URL's of all the past postings, thereby breaking the links to to all things Roger in the climate debate blogosphere. And Roger at best is unconcerned, but most likely prefers it that…
A common misconception about global warming is that it means warming everywhere on the globe. This is an understandable, if too literal, interpretation of the phrase for a non-scientist and is something that is often played upon by less intellectually honest participants in the debate. This is…
Global Warming is happening too slowly. Or so says Dan Gilbert, psycholgist and author of the book "Stumbling on Happiness".
Watch this video for a psychologist's explanation of why we are failing to act in the face of the global threat that is climate disruption.
(click here for the page at…
Eli Rabbet has a great summary of the recent Monckton-APS kafuffle. As this is sure to echo "longly and loudly" in the denier's circle I will add an article tomorrow into the How to talk to a climate sceptic guide.
--ahem-- Eli, care to update your blogroll with my "new" URL? Pretty please? I…
The continued mysterious death of honeybees, (36% loss of all colonies in the US this year alone) is now being linked to pesticides.
There are also typically suspicious shenanigans from the EPA involved:
So why did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2002 grant an "emergency" exemption…
So, investigation of anthrax terrorism attacks ends up pointing to lead investigator who then commits suicide. All neat and tidy, case closed. But it certainly does not look that simple after all. Check out that DemocracyNow! story for some intriguing details. (watch/listen/read)
Additional and…
Thanks to a find by In It For the Gold, I will now be adding a new blog called "The Way Things Break" to my Google Reader feeds.
I don't know anything about the author, but he has crafted an amazingly thorough and well sourced shredding of a recent Bjorn Lomborg op-ed, spouting more shrill paranoia…
Roger comes down on Junkscience for a refreshing change, usually prefering to disguise himself and mingle with the sceptics. Of course, if you read him carefully, he is not one, he just plays one on "the internets". It is all about personal positioning in a very public debate.
Roger posts about…
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) August 3, 2008 Top Stories:Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel…
Announcing Matt Springer, a physics graduate student at Texas A&M and his blog Built on Facts ().
Welcome to the Blorg!
Via Prometheus I read this article from the AFP that describes some new findings about land mass in the river delta that is Bandladesh. Apparently it is growing and has been for the last 32 years at about 20 km^2/year.
Roger points out, no doubt correctly, that the climate septics will make great…
Posted just because I love this (besides, it's Friday, let's go dancing!)
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Michael Tobis has another interesting and thoughtful post up about some of the differences between good scientific work and "Lawyer's science. Always worth reading him.
I don't know if you all have heard of Chris Jordan before. He does some interesting very large scale art work featuring garbage or consumable goods to illustrate the vast quantities of some of these things that we all consume.
One of his latest pieces is a rather powerful political statement about…
Via the contest notification I posted about here, I just watched a very effective video they say was conceived, written and directed by a 10 year old boy. Watch it below, it is about a minute:
"Save It" Global Warming message by 10 yr old from 1skycampaign on Vimeo.
Not to be critical at all,…
Via an unsolicited email, I have learned of a video contest I thought I would share with Science Blogs readers. The contest "gives Americans an opportunity to inspire our next president to take bold climate action." I will quote the press release below, you can participate by producing a video or…
Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy is a new film from scientist turned filmmaker Randy Olsen ("Rediagnosing the Oceans", "Flock of Dodos") and rather than being a film about global warming, it is a film about the making of a film about global warming. Sizzle is also a self described "novel blend of…
Even the most mainstream of the mainstream media are finally onto the topic of Peak Oil.
Today the Washington Post came out with part 3 of the 5 part series linked to just above.
There is a nice picture gallery (beware the ad with sound) with very old photos of oil fields etc. My favorite is this…
Over the course of the last few years it has become quite clear to me that the attacks on the science of global warming in general are as often reiterated as they are clearly fallacious.
Initially created in 2006 for my own use as a handy way to reference and reuse the relevant material to rebut…
Science Blogs had an event July 15 they called "Sizzle Tuesday" where a few dozen bloggers were given advanced screening copies of Randy Olson's new film "Sizzle". Seems it went well, there are links to 46 reviews on the Sizzle Tuesday page.
I was supposed to have been in on all that but July 15th…
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) July 27, 2008 Top Stories: Wetlands, Green New Deal, WCI ETS, Gore, Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis…
A new study from University of Southern California was just released, appearing in PNAS Early Edition the week of July 21, showing that run-off from the Amazon River powers a large carbon sink in the tropical North Atlantic ocean. New Scientist talks about it here.
According to the press realease…
With that name, the silly post titles just don't quit!
But on the serious side, "This storm, heading for the Mexico-Texas border, is now a hurricane. Our second of the 2008 season, and it's not even August yet" says Chris Mooney.
Read some live storm blogging here, I guess it has already landed.
The background for this post is The Great Global Warming Swindle and the recent judgement [PDF] by the British media regulator OFCOM regarding complaints of misleading the public and misrepresenting the science. Tim Lambert has a detailed look at the ruling here.
All in all it looks like the…
The setup is George Bush, as usual, being an insensitive fool and making stupid jokes about tens of thousands of destroyed lives:
There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk--that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras. It got drunk, and now it's got a hangover. The…