August 11, 2010
Wildfire increases are a big potential climate change problem. And rampant ones over parts of Russia, as the map below illustrates, have now lead to unhealthy levels of Carbon Monoxide over huge swaths of Russia — and for extended periods of time.
(map courtesy of NASA)
Huge amounts of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, as shown by [...]
The last post on here brought up the issue of rampant climate change disinformation, posing as science.
Below are some links to a website filled with both advanced facts, and many more basic, erroneous assertions posed as fact; one that also starts off, rather ludicrously, by asserting that any temperature increase limits as a result of [...]
The climate covering “science” site Watts Up With That repeatedly gets information wrong, misleads readers, and manipulates the climate change issue. (See the middle of this post here for an example, along with here for how unscientific its somewhat ridiculous “science blog of the year” logo is.) And always in one direction as well; that is, no [...]
March 13, 2010
The report, a follow-up to a comprehensive report from a year ago showing that almost one-third of the nation’s birds are either threatened or in “significant decline,” was issued by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Thursday.
From the press release:
“For well over a century, migratory birds have faced stresses such as commercial hunting, [...]
March 08, 2010
New research by Britain’s Met Office reviewed more than 100 recent studies on Climate Change. The review concludes that is is an “increasingly remote possibility” that human activity is not the main cause of observed climate change.
This is not exactly new news. But it does offer additional recent independent studies consistent with the [...]
March 5, 2010
First, the scientific analysis: This nicely laid out NASA surface map compares the land surface temperature from January 25 to February 1, 2009 to the average mid-summer temperatures the continent experienced between 2000-2008, and shows bizarre land surface temperature anomalies for the last week of January, 2009, or “mid summer.”
In response, Koalas, which [...]
February 21, 2010
In the last several years, one of the key things learned is that our previous assumptions about the time it would take to melt enormous sheets of ice — say, for example, Greenland, or the rest of the Arctic — was wildly underestimated.
One of the key components of increased melting is the presence [...]
February 20, 2010
According to a UCLA press release issued October 8, 2009, a study in the October 8, 2009 edition of Science suggests that the last time that CO2 levels were as high as today — and were at those levels over sustained periods of time — the earth was 5 to 10 degrees warmer Fahrenheit, there [...]
February 15, 2010
A recent NY Times article,with a very misleading headline, notes:
The family of Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, a leading climate skeptic in Congress, built a six-foot-tall igloo on Capitol Hill and put a cardboard sign on top that read “Al Gore’s New Home.”
To counter this, the author, John Broder, used a quote by the [...]
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