Here’s the third installment of the “Who Killed DSCOVR” series on DeSmogBlog.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Greenland Glaciers Melting at Record Rate
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 is becoming more and more apparent that the IPCC was hobbled in it’s (still dire) predictions by political considerations. Some...
Fred Thompson on Science and Global Warming
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 planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar...
The plight of the magnificent polar bears
(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 world’s 16,000 polar bears expected to survive through the end of the century, said the U.S. Geological Survey,...
The ugliness of bottled water
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 the most fresh water of any country in the world!
Who killed the DSCOVR project? (Part 2)
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 cancelled is simply that Al Gore’s came up with the idea. Unreal.
Hypocrisy and 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, and a very unfortunate one. Global warming may very well destroy the island they are on, which will...
Oreskes responds to Schulte
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) has claimed that Oreske’s paper is not only outdated but also wrong. This claim has been extensively crowed over...
More severe thunderstorms to come with global warming, NASA says
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 when that happens, watch out. “The strongest thunderstorms, the strongest severe storms and tornadoes are likely to...
Good thing the arctic ice is melting, there’s oil under there!
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 warming, worrying instead about getting their hands on yet more oil, and destroying yet another pristine environment, one...