Who Killed DSCOVR Part 3: Digging for Answers from NASA
sduford on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: Politics
Here’s the third installment of the “Who Killed DSCOVR” series on DeSmogBlog.
Archive for September, 2007
Greenland Glaciers Melting at Record Rate
sduford on Sep 11 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming
The Greenland ice sheet is melting so fast, that the giant kilometer long chunks of ice that are breaking off are actually causing earthquakes. People monitoring this situation say that the rate at which the ice is pouring water and ice into the ocean is much faster than the IPCC’s very conservative reports. It [...]
Fred Thompson on Science and Global Warming
sduford on Sep 08 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
I thought that recently announced Republican Presidential Candidate and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson looked like a smart and reasonable guy, but then I read the transcript of his interview with Paul Harvey:
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own [...]
The plight of the magnificent polar bears
sduford on Sep 08 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Wildlife
(source) WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — and the entire population gone from Alaska — because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
Only in the northern Canadian Arctic islands and the west coast of Greenland are any of [...]
The ugliness of bottled water
sduford on Sep 08 2007 | Filed under: Environment, Sustainable Dev.
Here’s a good article spelling out 5 compelling reasons why bottled water is a VERY BAD IDEA. And it doesn’t even mention the fact that much of the bottled water sold in North America actually comes from far away places like France, Italy, and even Fiji. This is amazing when you consider that Canada has [...]
Who killed the DSCOVR project? (Part 2)
sduford on Sep 06 2007 | Filed under: Politics, The Science
Mitchell Anderson of DeSmogBlog just posted the second installment of his investigative report on the death of NASA’s DSCOVR project. It is truly tragic that such an important project, at such an important time in our planet’s history, has been cancelled for purely partisan reasons. It appears that the main reason why this was [...]
Hypocrisy and Renewable Energy
sduford on Sep 02 2007 | Filed under: Environment, Politics, Renewable Energy
Here’s a good article at Green Options on the “Cape Wind” fiasco. Basically the right wing fights the project because, well, its bad for the fossil fuel industry, and the Kennedy’s, who like to pass themselves as pro-environment and pro-renewable energy, are fighting it because it will spoil their view.
This is a rather hypocritical stance, [...]
Oreskes responds to Schulte
sduford on Sep 01 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists, The Denial Machine
Many readers will no doubt know the 2004 paper in Science by historian of science Naomi Oreskes, a paper which discussed the consensus position regarding anthropogenic climate change. Predictably, the paper received much vitriol from the climate contrarians and denialists. Now, a medical researcher (Klaus-Martin Schulte, who appears to be a consultant in endocrine surgery) [...]
More severe thunderstorms to come with global warming, NASA says
sduford on Sep 01 2007 | Filed under: Extreme Weather, Global Warming
A new study by NASA shows that the USA will likely suffer from more frequent and stronger thunderstorms and tornadoes as the climate becomes hotter and wetter.
The basic ingredients for whopper U.S. inland storms are likely to be more plentiful in a warmer, moister world, said lead author Tony Del Genio, a NASA research scientist.
And [...]
Good thing the arctic ice is melting, there’s oil under there!
sduford on Sep 01 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics
The Sietch has a good entry on the new USGS study that estimates the amount of undiscovered oil under the rapidly melting Arctic ice. At the same time, a rising conflict is brewing between Russia, Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Norway over who owns that oil.
They are all oblivious to the huge problem of global [...]