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March 16, 2010
Category: roundup
Posted by coby at 7:00 AM • 0 Comments
March 12, 2010
Category: general • multi-media
Not really apropos to climate change, but I saw this and just had to share.
Ever wondered what it would look like if you could actually see the entire network of tunnels that make up a large ant colony? Well, all it takes is 10 tons of concrete and a few months of labour.
Posted by coby at 9:01 AM • 4 Comments
March 8, 2010
Category: het • news • roundup
Posted by coby at 8:16 AM • 0 Comments
March 5, 2010
Category: cryosphere • news • papers
From up north, we have some more troubling news. Actually very troubling. Catastophic release of methane hydrates is a prime suspect in a few events dramatic enough to show in the earth's geological records, coarse and obscured as that record may be. (Our actions today will be featured prominently in that record for anyone looking back a million years from now.) It has been a worry for many years that humanity is running the risk of triggering such a release again, which would truly pile disaster on top of calamity.
New research coming out in Science today indicates that this most dire of feedbacks may well be underway already. Below is the text of a press release I received about it last night.
Posted by coby at 8:05 AM • 58 Comments
March 4, 2010
Category: general • mainstream media • politics
This is interesting. I have mixed feelings about it but it is probably a necessary step in forcing the reality of this issue into the correct legal and political context. Actions have consequences and actors have responsibilities.
The only question I have is that the respnsibility is really shared by all of us as consumers of fossil fuels, in some sense it is not fair to place all the respnsibility on the fossil fuel companies.
Of course when they intentionally create misinformation to avoid addressing the problem, the face a corresponding increase in culpability.
Read it below:
Posted by coby at 4:13 PM • 26 Comments
March 3, 2010
Category: debunking • multi-media • other blogs
While on the subject of great work by Tim Lambert, his recent debate with Christopher Monkton is available for viewing here.
It is 113 minutes long and I am pressed for time, so I am posting it before watching it. Feel free to point out favorite parts in the comments. Thanks to the Sydney Morning Herald for putting it on.
I have no doubt it will be educational and entertaining, can't wait to see it!
Posted by coby at 8:15 PM • 8 Comments
Category: debunking • other blogs
Here is an interesting analysis designed for those who claim that CO2 does not correlate to temperature. (Sound familiar?). It is by a recently familiar name from the comments, Joseph.
I am not statistically well endowed, but Robert Grumbine comes to the same conclusion that when you accept the noisy nature of the data (aka reality) the fact is that CO2 does correlate to the modern temperature record very well, as expected.
How does Joseph's analysis look? He has some big numbers in terms of confidence.
Posted by coby at 8:08 AM • 2 Comments
March 2, 2010
Category: climate crock • debunking • editorial • multi-media
Unfortunately for an unscientifically inclined mind, one bitter cold winter is worth many mountains of research in the quest for the truth about climate change. And unfortunately for our choking biosphere, political action will likely remain an impossibility until we are well and truly past the alledged cessation of warming.
I received an apparently sincere comment that expressed what must be a common feeling in the general public:
Posted by coby at 7:49 AM • 64 Comments
March 1, 2010
Category: mainstream media • other blogs
So Tim Lambert has been a busy blogger this last month with some really first rate investigative work on the truly abysmal rash of shoddy climate journalism in the UK. Check out his Leakgate category for a multitude of "must read" postings.
Also see Eli on Leakeng Ships. for another run down of Tim's work.
Posted by coby at 3:42 PM • 3 Comments
Category: roundup
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PZ Myers 03.14.2010
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Tim Lambert 03.01.2010
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