When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 26th September 2006. On the letters page of the Guardian last week, a Dr Alan Kendall attacked the Royal Society for “smearing†its opponents. It had sent an official letter to Exxon, complaining about the oil company’s “inaccurate and misleading†portrayal of the science of climate change, and its funding of lobby groups which...
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Monthly Archives: September 2006
The Smoke Behind the Deniers’ Fire
It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers – Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site, 19th September 2006 It takes quite a lot to get Britain’s most august scientific body, the Royal Society, riled. But now it has had enough. It is trying to bring an end to a ten-year campaign of disinformation about the world’s...
Global Warming Spurs Ocean Methane Release
This article describes another of the plausible “positive feedback” processes which could lead to runaway warming. Source: Scientific American, August 29, 2006 Since time immemorial, methane and oil have seeped from beds buried beneath the ocean sediment off the California coast. The methane bubbles up and out of the sea, adding to the store of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. The oil floats up as well and, over time, breaks down into tar...
Hello world!
This new blog will be dedicated to our planet, and saving it from Global Warming. I intend to post lots of information on the science behind global warming, what humans are doing about it, and what we should or could be doing. I also intend to denounce the naysayers and the denial machine that has been put in place to give the appearance of scientific uncertainty. I expect some intense and controversial discussions!