Tagged with Climate Science 
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Icier Depths
Q: How much can West Antarctica plausibly contribute to sea-level rise by 2100? 0
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
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Swift-boating, climate style
Cato’s skeptic ads draw a flurry of responses 1
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks ago
The libertarian Cato Institute spent serious free-market cash on its full-page ad questioning climate change on Monday. Reactions were swift and pointed.
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Claussen in a Pickle
Does Pew Center’s Eileen Claussen get the dire nature of our climate predicament? 0
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We Cement to Do That
Does carbon-eating cement deserve the hype? 0
Posted 7 months, 4 weeks agoI am trying to identify the plausible CO2-mitigation strategies that are scalable — that can comprise at least a half a wedge.
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Maybe Dennis Avery failed calculus ...
Global warming denier Avery doesn’t know the difference between growth and growth rate 0
Posted 8 months agoThe American Daily has just published this laughably wrong piece of disinformation by long-term global warming denier Dennis Avery, "Now CO2 is Declining as well as Temperatures." Before AD and Avery take it down, let's look at what passes for analysis among the deniers.
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Introduction to climate economics
Why even strong climate action has such a low total cost—one tenth of a penny on the dollar 0
Posted 8 months agoSince the nation is about to launch into a long debate about the costs of climate action versus the cost of inaction, here is an overview of the major cost analyses of global climate action.
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Friedman: MSM's climate Cassandra
NYT’s Tom Friedman updates the global warming threat and spells out the solution 0
Posted 8 months agoThe NYT columnist Tom Friedman has another terrific global warming piece this past weekend, "Mother Nature's Dow."
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Tab dump number ... oh hell I'm not numbering these any more
Doom, lobbyists, hypocrisy, and coal, oh my! 0
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Opposites attract?
New study quoted by Cato Institute deniers in ad concludes global warming is getting worse 0
Posted 8 months agoRealClimate has an excellent post (here) on the Cato Institute's efforts to get signatories for its new global warming denial ad. But they missed one especially ironic point -- a key study Cato uses to argue we may see much less warming than the models predict comes to exactly the opposite conclusion.
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank that has long been a bastion of anti-scientific denial (see "The intellectual bankruptcy of the Cato Institute"). The new ad (here [PDF]) attacks President Obama directly. First, it quotes his November 19, 2008 statement:
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Mything in action
Why conservatives hate green jobs 0
Posted 8 months agoThis post will debunk "7 Myths About Green Jobs" and the longer version, Green Jobs Myths [PDF]. The internal inconsistencies and general illogic of these articles are staggering: Progressives will be quoting from them in defense of our positions for years to come (see debunking of Myth 6).
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Beyond Carbon
Umbra on the other greenhouse gases 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Trying to reduce your carbon footprint, but worried about toeing the line? Umbra has a sole-ution.
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Triumph of the Will bashers
Scientists and science writers take Will to task in the WaPo 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week ago
Science writer Chris Mooney and head of the World Meteorological Association take to the pages of the Washington Post to battle back against conservative columnist George Will's climate deceptions.
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Must-have slide No. 2: The ‘global-change-type drought’ and the future of extreme weather 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago -
Economics malpractice, climate and poverty, oil sands nightmares, and more WSJ dipshittery 0
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Always use WWII metaphors 0
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Is consensus on ‘energy gap’ enough to get past disagreement over climate change? 0
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Certain as Death and Carbon Taxes
Carbon tax only way to keep planet cool: Hansen 0
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U.K. Independent and Debategraph collaborate on visual climate policy ... doohickey 0
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Can the problems of the developing world be solved by ignoring global warming? 0
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He is not ‘guilty of inaccuracies and overstatements’ and is owed a correction by the NYT 10
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago