Climate
hrynyshyn | July 17, 2006Chris Mooney is sick of the stick. The hockey stick, that is. I don't blame him. How often should we have to revisit the tired argument over whether today's climate is warmer than any time in the last 400 years or 1000? But here we are again, thanks to Joe Barton's House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which commissioned three statisticians with no expertise in climatology to give Mann's graph yet another once-over.
In the absence of anything else of substance to chew on this morning, I bothered to look at what Barton's three wise men came up with. Same old, same old, it would appear. But…
hrynyshyn | July 8, 2006Climate change has been blamed for a lot of things, sometimes not entirely based on the scientific evidence. But this is a first, at least to me:
From today's Guardian:
A vast chunk of Europe's most ill-famed mountain threatens to break loose and crash down in the next few days, a geologist monitoring the situation told the Guardian yesterday. Hans-Rudolf Keusen said 2 m[illion] cubic metres of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland - twice the volume of the Empire State Building - was rapidly working its way loose. He said the mountain appeared to have cracked open as an indirect result…
hrynyshyn | June 28, 2006One more time, with gusto: "There's a debate over whether it's manmade or naturally caused." So said Bush Jr. the other day. As Chris "Intersection" Mooney, noted, the only "debate" over the causes of climate change is taking place in Bush's mind. Meanwhile, however, there are very real consequences to the way the science of climate change is being conducted. Word just came down that"the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville [NC] would face cuts in services and layoffs under a budget proposal headed for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, officials with the center warn.
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chaoticutopia | June 13, 2006In the Fishlake Mountains of Utah, several fires are steadily burning. As the American West enters yet another dry season, there will almost certainly be more. Folks around these parts have been whispering about the increasing fire danger, dreading another year like 2002. We reffered to that period of time as "the summer of fire", when the Hayman fire, started by a disgruntled forest service worker, burned over 7 million acres of land and destroyed over 100 homes. This year is shaping up to be disturbingly worse. Why? The Bush administration thinks that the bulk of our firefighting helicopter…