The Battle Over Climate Science
• http://www.popsci.com, By Tom ClynesClimate scientists routinely face death threats, hate mail, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks. How much worse can it get?
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Climate Change
Medieval Warming Period One Degree Warmer
• arcleinSeasonal sea-surface temperature (SST) variability during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), which corresponds to the height of Viking exploration (800–1200 AD), was estimated using oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) obtained from high-resolution sam
IPCC Admits Its Past Reports Were Junk
• arcleinC lead authors fail to give "due consideration ... to properly documented alternative views" (p. 20), fail to "provide detailed written responses to the most significant review issues identified by the Review Editors" (p. 21), and are not "consi
UN Climate Agenda in Shambles
• arcleinpublicly exposed many of the world’s most prestigious scientific organizations, institutions, and publications as being captives of rigid ideologues who employ rigged computer models, fraudulent “evidence,” censorship, and intimidation to advance a
Scientists Want To Block The Sun Due To Global Warming Threat
• http://govtslaves.info, Jamie CondliffeThe planet is hot and getting hotter.
Super Derocho
• arclein"It's a complex interaction of forces, and the environment has to be conducive," he said. "You need a very special setup to get a derecho -- obviously, that was the case [on June 29]."
Global Warming Shrinking Plant Leaves
• http://www.livescience.com, StaffWarming temperatures are turning a native Australian shrub into a mini version of itself, revealing the effect climate change is already having on the globe.
Extreme winter weather in Peru: Government sending blankets to freezing people
• New Nostradamus of the NorthIt may be warm in parts of the US, but in Peru the government is trying to keep freezing people warm: Peru’s government on Monday sent 18 trucks carrying 97,000 blankets to villages in the Andean highlands, where the populations endure freezing temp
Climate change suspended reef growth for 2 millennia
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Karen RhineClimate change drove coral reefs to a total ecosystem collapse lasting thousands of years, according to a paper published this week in Science.
Sea Level Rise Unstoppable, say Scientists
• http://www.commondreams.org, staffEven if nations manage to mitigate carbon emission levels, oceans will continue to rise throughout 21st century
Greenland Core Exaggerates Magnitude of Dryas Chill
• arcleinice core drifts notably from other records of Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the Younger Dryas, a period beginning nearly 13,000 years ago of cooling so abrupt it's believed to be unmatched sinc
The Carbon Charade Continues
• http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff ReportThis is a pretty incredible observation – that British politicians have no idea how they are going to attain the "goals" they voted for regarding the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all, new field data show
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Lewis PageTwenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time – and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all.
Green ‘drivel’ exposed
• Toronto SunTwo months ago, James Lovelock, the godfather of global warming, gave a startling interview to msnbc.com in which he acknowledged he had been unduly “alarmist” about climate change.
Significant sea-level rise in a 2-degree warming world
• by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchThe study is the first to give a comprehensive projection for this long perspective, based on observed sea-level rise over the past millennium, as well as on scenarios for future greenhouse-gas emissions.
Disappearing grasslands: ASU scientists to study dramatic environmental change
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Sandra LeanderThe Earth's grasslands and savannas are experiencing a major transformation as woody plants, such as trees and shrubs, have begun to dominate arid lands around the globe.
Sierra Nevada 200 Year Megadroughts Confirmed
• arcleinThe erratic year-to-year swings in precipitation totals in the Reno-Tahoe area conjures up the word "drought" every couple of years, and this year is no exception. The Nevada State Climate Office at the University of Nevada, Reno, in conjunction wi
Record Arctic Bloom Under Ice
• arcleinThe farther they ventured into the ice-covered sea for their NASA-funded project to study ice, the more intense the under-ice algae bloom, says Arrigo, a veteran of many trips to the Arctic and Antarctic. “It was shocking,” he says.
Global warming skeptics as knowledgeable about science as climate change believers, study says
• Fox NewsA study published Sunday in the journal "Nature" finds that people who are not that worried about the effects of global warming tend to have a slightly higher level of scientific knowledge than those who are worried.
Anthropomorphic Global Cooling
• arcleinNow, a new study reveals that the northern treeline in Rocky Mountains was at a much higher altitude from six to nine thousand years ago, which confirms the extra warm climate was not just limited to the Finland/Siberia areas.
North Carolina Legislature Prepares To Ban Sea From Rising
• http://govtslaves.info, Richard SchiffmanOnce upon a time, the great King Canute, strolling on a beach with his courtiers, ordered the waves to halt.
The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate
• http://www.theregister.co.uk, By Lewis PageA US government-funded survey has found that Americans with higher levels of scientific and mathematical knowledge are more sceptical regarding the dangers of climate change than their more poorly educated fellow citizens.
BBQ Econundrum: Charcoal or Gas?
• http://www.motherjones.com, By Kiera ButlerEndless summer is great and all, but I’ve had this nagging feeling that our charcoal habit is cooking the planet along with my food.
Going nuclear-free: Germany smashes solar power world record
• http://www.rt.comGermany’s solar power plants produced a record 22 gigawatts of energy on Friday, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear plants.
Eco-Fascism Bares Its Teeth: Global Warming Alarmist Wants to Barcode Babies
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonGlobal warming alarmist Elizabeth Moon’s call for all babies to be forcibly implanted with a microchip to ensure that “anonymity would be impossible” is yet another startling example of eco-fascism baring its teeth.
Sea Rise Source Identified
• arcleinIn a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team led by Yadu Pokhrel of the University of Tokyo say the answer lies in water that is extracted from underground aquifers, rivers and lakes for human development but is never replenished.
Evidence Continues to Mount for Ticking 'Methane Time Bomb'
• http://www.commondreams.org, Common Dreams staffNew research that utilized both ground-based measurements and aerial surveys in specific sub-arctic regions in Alaska and Greenland has discovered approximately 150,000 'methane seeps' - a phenomenon where methane gas previously held in the frozen pe
Why Arizona Gets Scorched by Severe Wildfires
• http://www.livescience.com, Wynne ParryA lightning strike and a house fire that ignited a propane tank are among the immediate causes of the wildfires torching thousands of Arizona acres, media reports say.
Island Imperiled by Rising Seas Battles Nature and Humans
• http://www.livescience.com, Charles ChoiThe island nation of Kiribati is one of the countries most threatened by rising sea levels. However, many of the floods it has seen may be due to a mix of natural variability and human activities, complicating the picture of how rising sea levels are
Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth'
• BBC NatureBritish scientists have calculated the methane output of sauropods, including the species known as Brontosaurus and suggest that their flatulence could have been a key factor in the warm climate 150 million years ago.
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