The good folks over at RealClimate.org wrote a devastating letter to Steve Levitt, author of Freakonomics for his inaccurate and misleading handling of Climate Change. Well worth reading here.
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Global Suicide Note
Climate change is accelerating and surpassing even the worst-case scenarios predicted by the models. Meanwhile the world’s nations are bickering over details of inadequate action. Are we committing suicide on an unprecedented scale?
Global carbon emissions budget
A new reality check on the global carbon emissions budget
Climate Countdown
An interesting article
A Fish-Climate Analogy
Here’s a thought provoking analogy, comparing what’s happening with climate-change denial to what has happened with the cod fisheries in Newfoundland. The tragedy of climate commons
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate
From The New York Times By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: April 23, 2009 For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming. “The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,” the coalition said in a scientific “backgrounder” provided to...
Two trillion tons of ice have melted since 2003
More than two trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming. More than half of the loss of landlocked ice in the past five years has occurred in Greenland, based on measurements of ice weight by NASA’s GRACE satellite, said NASA geophysicist Scott Luthcke. The water melting from Greenland in...
Don’t believe in climate change? You still need a carbon tax.
An excellent article by Dan Gardnerколи под наем. The jist of his message? Even if you don’t “believe” in anthropogenic climate change, there are many good reasons to get off our addiction to fossil fuels, and do it fast.
Arctic Seabed Methane Beginning to Release
This article: New global warming threat as scientists discover massive methane ‘time bomb’ under the Arctic seabed discusses an actual observation of this very dangerous climate feedback mechanism. The title is misleading because this is no a “new” global warming threat, but something scientists have been predicting for years. Now it has actually been observed, and it is extremely worrisome as it could greatly accelerate global warming. Global warming could rapidly accelerate as millions...
Arctic Ice shelves suffered major melting over summer
From CBC Canada’s ice shelves suffered massive erosion over the summer, losing almost one-quarter of their area, researchers have found. The ice shelves on the north coast of Ellesmere lost 214 square kilometres over the summer, or an area three times larger than Manhattan Island, said a group of researchers from Ontario, Quebec and the United States on Tuesday. The entire Markham ice shelf broke away in early August and is now adrift in...