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 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 Oct 24 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists
Once again, the White House has censored a scientific report that discusses the possibility of
diseases becoming a problem under a warmer climate. As many as 6 pages were removed from the report.
It is really upsetting to see a bunch of religious freaks and industry puppets constantly muzzling scientists to suit their political agenda.
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) [...]
sduford on Jun 21 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Scientists
The Earth today stands in imminent peril…
…and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent
Published: 19 June [...]
sduford on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists, The Science
Many of those who try to deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change say that scientists are talking up climate change to get grant money. Well, here is America’s top climate researcher and head of the NASA Goddard Institute, a man who needs no grants to earn a living, and a man who  is putting his job at [...]
sduford on Apr 23 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Scientists, The Denial Machine, The Science
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sduford on Apr 06 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Scientists, The Denial Machine
There is a nasty rumor circulating aroud the net that James Randi has endorsed the controversial film “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Nothing could be further from the truth, and here is what he had to say about it: http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-04/040607mi.html#i8Â
sduford on Mar 28 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists, The Denial Machine
March 27, 2007
GAP Report Details Climate Science Politicization House Hearing Set for Tomorrow; Report Analyzes Scientific Agency Media Policies and Practices
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is releasing a comprehensive report detailing the findings of a year-long investigation into political interference at federal climate science agencies. The report demonstrates how policies and [...]