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Nature: “Dynamic thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet” 0
Posted 1 month ago
“Human activities are the primary driver,” impacts are projected to worsen “substantially” and “If we are to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced.”

18 leading scientific organizations send letter to Senators 0
Posted 1 month ago
“Geoengineering is proposed only as a last resort to try to reduce or cope with the even greater harms of global warming! … The point of the chapter in SuperFreakonomics is that geoengineering might be good insurance in case we don’t get global warming under control.” Did he even read the book?

Myhrvold jumps the shark — and jumps ship on Superfreakonomics 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Author's claim Caldeira’s “research tells him that carbon dioxide is not the right villain.” Caldeira updates his website to read “Carbon dioxide is the right villain.”

Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics,’ Part 5 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
It takes a village to debunk their anti-scientific nonsense, but why did they stop Amazon from allowing text searches?

Error-riddled ‘Superfreakonomics,’ Part 3 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
BBC misses hottest decade on record 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
I thought YOU were looking for the sign!

Scientists identify “safe operating space for humanity” in seminal Nature study 20
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
The toxic assault on our children

Can we protect kids from the toxic trappings of modern life? 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Philip and Alice Shabecoff's Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children casts environmental contamination in the context of kids, connecting the dots between the toxification of the young and a slew of once rare, now devastatingly commonplace childhood diseases.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: When climate change leads to… m-u-u-u-u-u-r-der… 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Alfred Hitchcock filled his movies with suspense by picking some object of life-or-death consequence -- microfilm, documents, uranium-filled wine bottles -- and setting his characters in pursuit.
Back to 10th-grade history

US Chamber of Commerce calls for ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ on climate change 19
Posted 3 months ago
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to put climate science on trial. This is an attempt to disrupt the effort to fight global warming with a culture war, tying the science of climate change to fundamentalists’ unease with evolution.
Heat in August

Hotter summers will pose public health challenges 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
The real threat of more intense heat waves tied to climate change isn't higher power bills and sweaty armpits; it's the cascading set of health impacts they would inflict upon the vulnerable populations of American cities.
right back at ya

Is this the fastest rebuttal of a denier study in history? 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The deniers have been trumpeting an atrocious study that made it into the July 23 edition of Journal of Geophysical Research, "Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature."
*But don't cite me no scientific evidence!

“Can you PROVE to me that global warming is being caused by mankind?”* 25
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The deniers believe in "science," they just don't believe in scientists, or hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, or scientific "evidence."
Whereof They Speak

Umbra on trusting scientists 9
Posted 2 years, 10 months ago