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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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What's Your Hurricane?
Link between climate change and stronger hurricanes becomes fuzzier |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Stossel
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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! |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, movies (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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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, ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics) |
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