sduford on Nov 20 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
It has become fashionable in some parts of the UK media to portray the scientific evidence that has been collected about climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as an exaggeration. Some articles have claimed that scientists are ignoring uncertainties in our understanding of the climate and the factors that [...]
sduford on Nov 20 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Science
Here is a review by Science magazine that looked at 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords “climate change.” Not one of these studies disagreed with consensus view on climate change.
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By Naomi Oreskes
Policy-makers and the media, particularly in the United States, frequently [...]
sduford on Nov 20 2006 | Filed under: Politics
Here’s some good news coming from the USA (about time)…
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November 20, 2006 — By Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — The U.S. delegation, the outsiders, slipped away quietly into the Nairobi drizzle on Friday as the annual U.N. climate conference wrapped up two weeks of talks on combating global warming.
In the [...]
sduford on Nov 19 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
This is a myth that is repeated frequently by the likes of David Bellamy and Dr. Fred Singer, two of the biggest PR “scientists” battling against the climatologists. Depending on which documents, reports, or lectures you look at, they either say that according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich 55% or 555 out [...]
sduford on Nov 19 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
This Scientific American blog entry discusses some of the recent lame attempts from the global warming denial machine to discredit the science. Well worth the quick read.
sduford on Nov 19 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
By JR Minkel, Scientific American
Known variations in the sun’s total energy output cannot explain recent global warming, say researchers who have reviewed the existing evidence. The judgment, which appears in the September 14 Nature, casts doubt on the claims of some global warming skeptics who have argued that long-term changes in solar output, or luminosity, [...]
sduford on Nov 19 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
Fiddling While the Planet Burns
Will the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change?
By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American
Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Only one place seemed to remain [...]
sduford on Nov 19 2006 | Filed under: Environment, Sustainable Dev.
Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American
While oil shortages grab the headlines, water scarcity is creating at least as many headaches around the world. The most dramatic conditions are in Asia, where the world’s two megacountries, China and [...]
sduford on Nov 19 2006 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Politics
The U.N. is making some progress, but they are still draggin their feet despite the urgency. Things are not happening nearly fast enough, and the longer we wait, the tougher it’s going to get.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - More than 180 nations at the U.N. climate conference agreed Friday on the next steps toward negotiating deeper future [...]
sduford on Nov 18 2006 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, The Science
November 17, 2006 — By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising concerns about the Greenland ice sheet. “There have been regional warming periods before. Now we’re seeing Arctic-wide changes,” James Overland, [...]