sduford on Aug 10 2008 | Filed under: Books, Global Warming
As the world heats up, so does the market for books about climate change. Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, looks at the latest works on the crisis, and sizes up their solutions, from nuclear energy to genetically engineered trees.
Read the article here.
I will insert these books in the TragicPlanet Bookstore for your convenience. [...]
sduford on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
We’ve talked about the big swindle here before, you know the one entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
Well, here’s a great dismantling of that “documentary” by George Monbiot:
Distortions, Falsehoods, Fabrications
sduford on Jun 25 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists
Exactly 20 years after he first warned Congress about the dangers of Global Warming, Jim Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Sciences, told Congress on Monday that the world long ago passed the “dangerous level” for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels. He said Earth’s atmosphere [...]
sduford on Jun 24 2008 | Filed under: Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Scientists
A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, a Bush appointed comittee.
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-3/final-report/default.htm
sduford on Apr 26 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
A new report from the NOAA shows that CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere is accelerating. More worrisome though is the fact that after a decade of steady readings, methane (CH4) is now sharply up, potentially indicating that the dreaded positive feedback scenario where methane hydrate locked in the permafrost is being released rapidly.
Keep in mind [...]
sduford on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Politics, Scientists
It’s no secret that the Bush Administration and the Harper government both censor scientists on a regular basis, making sure that nothing that could harm their energy industry bodies gets out. Scientists from NASA, NOAA, EPA, and Environment Canada have complained about this fact for several years. The EPA even famously cancelled a report on [...]
sduford on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
Some good news for a change. A new study shows that some coral reefs appear to be protected by a natural oceanic temperature control system in their local area.
sduford on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Denial Machine
The Toronto Sun published a column by Lorrie Goldstein, and that column showcases the outstanding (not) quality of journalism in that tabloid. Goldstein obviously has no understanding of climate science whatsoever and so he resorts to insults and ridicule to attack a view he obviously despises.
I wrote them a comment to complain about this [...]
sduford on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Extreme Weather, Global Warming, The Science
A new study to be published this week shows that increased wind shear might actually mean that global warming will result in less hurricanes.
This is highly controversial and most climatologists disagree with this finding. I think the trend over the last 20 years has been pretty clear that hurricanes are getting stronger and more frequent, [...]
sduford on Jan 23 2008 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
Although air temperatures on the Antarctic continent have not been going much at all, puzzling scientists, this new study shows that ice loss is accelerating. The cause is likely to be the warming water of the circumpolar current.