Very true, but those who need to hear won’t be listening.
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I haven’t written a ‘global warming’ post in a while, but that doesn’t mean that the issue has gone away. In fact, the evidence for anthropogenic climate change continues to mount. A story appears on the BBC website that might well be a further link in the chain.
‘Gob-smacking’ scale of Petermann Glacier break-up
New pictures have [...]
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“In the media landscape there are climate change deniers and believers, but rarely are those speaking about climate change actual climate scientists…”
Some aussie climate scientists are getting down with the kids to share their message. (Before you watch, remember that it’s a Rap. Rap’s are supposed to be rude)
yo….we’re climate scientists.. and there’s no denying [...]
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Only In It For The Gold is a must-go-to source for sensible and informed comment about the state of climate science. Is there a trend in Atlantic Hurricanes and Black Birds are two fine recent posts about whether extreme weather events can be linked to climate change.
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Stephan Lewandowsky, The Drum
Indeed, tragically and paradoxically, among Republicans acceptance of the science decreases with their level of education as well as with their self-reported knowledge: Whereas Democrats who believe they understand global warming better also are more likely to believe that it poses a threat in their lifetimes, among Republicans increased belief in understanding [...]
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LA Times :: Critics’ review unexpectedly supports scientific consensus on global warming
A team of UC Berkeley physicists and statisticians that set out to challenge the scientific consensus on global warming is finding that its data-crunching effort is producing results nearly identical to those underlying the prevailing view.
The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project was launched by [...]
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A very strong article by Julia Gillard
The second US President John Adams once famously said that “facts are stubborn things.” No opinion poll can change the fact that climate change is real. It is caused by human activity. And we must cut carbon pollution.
In a nation rich in fossil fuels, I wish it were not [...]
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Is climate change affecting the Amazon basin?
“If greenhouse gas emissions contribute to Amazon droughts that in turn cause forests to release carbon, this feedback loop would be extremely concerning.
“Put more starkly, current emissions pathways risk playing Russian roulette with the world’s largest rainforest.”
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It’s true. Both Exxon and BP are predicting that CO2 will continue to rise.
How long will a minority continue to promote the fiction that there is any real doubt about climate change?
More Throbgoblins cartoons…
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Australia’s The Age considers the new world of extreme weather
Certainly, the world appears to have increasingly suffered wild and damaging swings in its weather in recent years, from the record high temperatures and bushfire havoc of Black Saturday in February 2009 to monsoonal flooding in January 2011, from scorching Russian summer to recently snowbound Europe [...]
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IPCC estimates of sea level rise corroborated
In the most comprehensive study of mountain glaciers and small ice caps to date, a team of US and Canadian scientists has projected that most of the world’s smaller glaciers will be gone by 2100. The finding confirms that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — [...]
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Interesting article from the Seattle Times
While some politicians are going on the attack against efforts to fight climate change, scientists such as Emanuel are rattling the political pigeonholes. Some are speaking out, using their expertise and conservative credentials to challenge what many researchers consider widespread distortions about climate change.
Texas Tech atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe is [...]
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Gulf of Mexico oil leak may give Arctic climate clues
Almost all of the methane released in the Gulf of Mexico oil leak was quickly swallowed by bacteria - which may give clues to climate change in the Arctic.
Writing in journal Science, US researchers report that methane-absorbing bacteria multiplied in the Gulf following the April accident.
The [...]
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Tim Jackson delivers an economic reality check
Well worth your time.
A great line: “This is a story about us … being persuaded to spend money we don’t have on stuff we don’t need, to create impressions that don’t last on people we don’t care about.”
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From the BBC:
“Photos taken by a mountaineer on Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken in 1921 have revealed an “alarming” ice loss.
The Asia Society (AS) arranged for the pictures to be taken in exactly the same place where British climber George Mallory took photos in 1921.
“The photographs reveal a startling truth: [...]
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“Imagine a gigantic, colossal banquet. Hundreds of millions of people come to eat. They eat and drink to their hearts’ content, eating food that is better and more abundant than at the finest tables in ancient Athens, or Rome or even in the palaces of medieval Europe. Then one day a man arrives wearing a [...]
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