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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bjorn again His argument is still bogus	Andrew Dessler	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Washington Post embarrasses itself today by publishing the usual delayer drivel in an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg. The fundamental problem with Lomborg's argument (which he also makes in his recent book Cool It!) is that it is based on the assumption that the worst-case, climate-change scenario cannot happen. The IPCC's predictions for climate change over the next hundred years range from about 2°C to 5°C. If you assume that the warming will be closer to 2° th ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Blast from the future Why does the Post let conservative columnists make up climate facts?	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Memo: To Washington Post, circa 2008 From: Future Historians of America (FHA), circa [you wouldn't believe us if we told you] Re: Historical Fact Checking Via: T-mail (Tachyon-Mail) As we attempt to document the reasons carbon dioxide concentrations are currently 945 ppm and rising 5 ppm a year, the FHA has a few questions we hope you can answer for us. It seems like every time the United States contemplated legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Breaking: The great ice age of 2008 is finally over -- next stop, Venus! One month's worth of data laughable as proof of global cooling	Joseph Romm	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A top NASA scientist just emailed me the breaking news: 'The ice age expired!' Even more shocking: the rate of warming this year has been just about unprecedented in the historical record -- even faster than I had predicted just last month based on the NASA data from February. Just look at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies dataset. While January's land-ocean global temperature was a mere +0.12 degrees C above the the 1951-1980 average and the February ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

What's Your Hurricane? Link between climate change and stronger hurricanes becomes fuzzier		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:24 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Climate change may not in fact make hurricanes more frequent and intense, says new research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. While other climate models have reached similar conclusions, this study is notable for having as its lead author atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel, who was one of the first to suggest a link between warming and stro ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics)

On thin ice Arctic ice alarmingly scarce, say NOAA, NASA, NSIDC	Joseph Romm	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Yes, I know you've all heard that we've had 'record' refreezing of Arctic ice. Big shock there. We had record melting followed by a temporary cooling La Niña event. What those denier/delayer-1000 talking points don't tell you is that the refrozen ice is very thin and still at record low levels following the staggering ice loss this summer. To set the record straight, on Wednesday, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA had a teleconference to show the surpri ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Don't Let Your Right Get Left United Nations calls climate change a matter of human rights		22 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 1:49 PM on 22 Feb 2008 If climate change is a "largely unscientific hoax" and "political concoction" (in the words of Republican strategist Mary Matalin), it's a hoax and concoction that could threaten the rights of millions of people. Or so said the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights this week. "Ultimately climate change may affect the very right t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Experts agree: We should all lie. A lot. About important stuff. Nobody fights for change unless they see there's a problem	John McGrath	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Ugh. So my local paper decided to print its own local blend of Nordhaus-Shellenberger drivel. Did you know that "it's time to stop blaring dire warnings about the perils of climate change and, instead, start enthusiastically proclaiming solutions"? I sure didn't. It's not as if people like Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, or I dunno, Gar Lipow have spent years talking about exactly that. It's not like the central message adopted by successful c ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate, messaging, environmental movement, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Stossel	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Does John Stossel have the brains God gave a chicken wing? Most people say no. Some say yes. One thing's for sure: the debate isn't over!
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, movies (all these topics)

2007: hottest year on record so far Or is it just us?	Joseph Romm	19 May 2007	Gristmill
April may have seemed on the cool side in this country, but globally it was the third warmest on record (and the warmest April ever over land). In fact, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reports that 'globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the warmest on record for January-April year-to-date period.' Drudge reported the April news perversely: 'WARMING ON HOLD? Aprils temperatures were below average ...' April temperature anomalies are s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

In climate science, small changes matter How can 3 percent be important?	Andrew Dessler	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Consider this argument often made by climate skeptics: Water vapor is the most important gas, contributing 97 percent of the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is only small percentage. Therefore, regulating carbon dioxide will have no impact on our climate. WhileEven if these numbers are generally correct, there are lots of problems with this argument. For example, it disregards the fact that climate forcing by water is really a feedback, and that changes in car ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Political warfare /= scientific warfare Time to quit pretending otherwise	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Late last week Chris Mooney had a long and characteristically careful post on HuffPo clarifying the hurricane/climate change connection, exactly what Gore's said about it, and exactly where Gore can and cannot be legitimately criticized for it. The crucial point in the post, though, is not about hurricanes. It's this: Nevertheless, when it comes to the science of global warming and its impacts, there's a very significant difference between Gore and his would-be detr ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics)

The scientific debate Some thoughts	David Roberts	05 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Part of the confusion over Revkin's article is that there isn't one "climate debate." There are several. I'm going to taxonomize them in another post, but first I want to say something about the scientific one. This debate, as many folks have pointed out, is pretty much over. The denialists are wrong and they've been completely discredited. Every serious person involved in the climate change discussion accepts the broad conclusions of the IPCC. However, ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

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