Carbon fiasco | Editorial | Squamish Chief, Squamish, BC. Last week a retired Saskatchewan farming couple touched off a flurry of government and oil-and-gas industry denials by releasing a consultant’s report that they said links a series of events on their farm over several years to leakage from a large industrial underground carbon capture and storage facility. Cameron and Jane Kerr say the report by geochemical expert Paul LaFleur links the deaths of animals,...
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Rising Seas Look Inevitable – ScienceNOW
Rising Seas Look Inevitable – ScienceNOW. It may be too late to stop the seas from eventually rising and flooding Earth’s coastlines. Even if humans manage to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions completely by the year 2100, ocean warming set in motion by the end of this millennium could trigger the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and flood New York City, Hong Kong, and other coastal cities, a new study suggests....
The Religious Right Sets New World-Record for Projection : Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Here’s a trailer promoting a 12-DVD series titled, Resisting the Green Dragon, which is almost exclusively comprised of slanders against science, scientists, and environmentalists. Some of the biggest names of the religious right are promoting this video: Tony Perkins, David Barton, Wendy Wright, and Richard Land. via The Religious Right Sets New World-Record for Projection : Dispatches from the Culture Wars.
The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism – Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science has just released this superb and easy to understand PDF document on the evidence for AGW and the poor arguments presented by the so-called “climate skeptics”. ————————– The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism Scientific skepticism is healthy. In fact, science by its very nature is skeptical. Genuine skepticism means considering the full body of evidence before coming to a conclusion. However, when you take a close look at arguments expressing climate...
Is the End in Sight for The World’s Coral Reefs? by J.E.N. Veron
It is a difficult idea to fathom. But the science is clear: Unless we change the way we live, the Earth’s coral reefs will be utterly destroyed within our children’s lifetimes. by j.e.n. veron Over the past decades, there have dozens of articles in the media describing dire futures for coral reefs. In the 1960s and ‘70s, we were informed that many reefs were being consumed by a voracious coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish....
A stunning year in climate science reveals that human civilization is on the precipice « Climate Progress
The first anniversary of ‘Climategate’, Part 1: The media blows the story of the century November 15, 2010 This week marks the one-year anniversary of what the anti-science crowd successfully labeled ‘Climategate’. The media will be doing countless retrospectives, most of which will be wasted ink, like the Guardian’s piece — focusing on climate scientists at the expense of climate science, which is precisely the kind of miscoverage that has been going on for...