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The 'Inhofe 400' Skeptic of the Day Today: Chris Allen	Andrew Dessler	30 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Today's member of the 'Inhofe 400' truly epitomizes the expertise and credibility of the group of experts that the good senator has assembled to demonstrate the obvious flaws in the theory of human-induced global warming. He is Chris Allen, weather director at WBKO, the ABC affiliate for south-central Kentucky. On his blog, Chris says this about global warming:My biggest argument against putting the primary blame on humans for climate change is that it completely tak ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, climate science (all these topics)

The 'Inhofe 400': Busting the 'consensus busters' Today: Thomas Ring	Andrew Dessler	27 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Recently, Senator James Inhofe published a list of 400 'prominent scientists' who have recently voiced significant objections mainstream climate science. In response to this list, I recently blogged that many of those listed lacked qualifications (see also here). I'm betting that Sen. Inhofe doesn't want you to actually read the list of skeptics, but just read the headline and accept their conclusion. Here at Grist, however, we don't do what the good senator wants us ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, James Inhofe, climate science, climate (all these topics)

'Mine's bigger' Me on Hannity & Colmes	David Roberts	22 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Here I am on Hannity & Colmes, 21 Dec. 2007. Mark Steyn was sitting in for Sean Hannity. The other guest is Chris Horner of CEI. There's some satisfaction in taking shots at Horner and CEI. God knows they get off too easy most of the time. And watching Horner bumble around and make no sense is fun.He called me an 'alarmist' and decried ad hominem attacks in the same sentence.In a discussion of whether there's a scientific consensus, you are not allowed ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, shameless self-promotion, TV (all these topics)

Debate: denied! Climate skeptic plays hookey	Andrew Dessler	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The great climate debate was supposed to be yesterday, but it was not to be. My opponent, Dr. Tim Ball, was a no-show. He knew the debate started at 2:00 p.m., but got the time zone wrong. After he figured that out, his phone stopped working. Go figure. So it was just me, and I spent about 75 minutes answering questions that readers had left on Eric Berger's Sciguy site, as well as taking questions from the phone lines. Many of the questions were interesting and ...
Topics: climate change skepticism, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Did You Want Rise With That? Sea-level rise this century could be twice IPCC's predictions, says research		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 17 Dec 2007 If you thought the predictions of sea-level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were bad, you should probably stop reading. Researchers publishing in brand-new journal Nature Geoscience say the oceans could surge twice as high this century as the IPCC's predictions, or some 64 inches. So, um, let's hope they're wrong. source:� Reuters < ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news (all these topics)

An ice-free Arctic by 2013? Scientist claims that climate models are too conservative in predicting ice loss	Joseph Romm	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Maybe I'm not alarmist after all. Maybe this future is nearer than everyone thinks: I was called 'over-alarmist' by one of the people who took my bet that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2020. But one of the country's top ice experts, non-alarmist Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School, told an American Geophysical Union audience this week: My claim is that the global climate models underestimate the amount of heat delivered to the ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Killer farmed salmon and non-deadly sharks	Andrew Sharpless	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
More than 10,000 people worked to clean up the worst oil spill in South Korean history after a crane punched a hole in an oil tanker, releasing 2.7 million gallons of crude. A 63-year-old shellfish farmer wept as she showed dead tar-coated oysters to a reporter ... ... a study published in Science suggested that leaving more fish in the sea leads to higher profits than the traditional target known as maximum sustainable yield. 'We like to say it's a win-win ...
Topics: climate science, climate, aquaculture, wildlife, fishing, oceans, toxics (all these topics)

Points of no return ahead James Hansen talks about what to do now that we've passed the 'tipping point'	Kit Stolz	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
For the last few years, James Hansen, the man who first warned Congress of global warming in testimony last century, and the man considered NASA's "top scientist" on climate questions, has been giving talks around the country asking can we avoid dangerous climate change (PDF)? But Hansen has changed his tune: no longer does he ask if we have passed the tipping points of climate change. In a press conference Thursday morning at the American Geophysical Union, h ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

It's debate time! Climate skeptic steps up	Andrew Dessler	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
We've finally found someone willing to debate me: Tim Ball, a retired professor from the University of Winnipeg. The debate will be online Monday, Dec. 17, at 2 p.m. CST. You will be able to listen online through BlogTalkRadio's service. In fact, you can even call in during the show (see the BlogTalkRadio web site for details). You can also post questions on SciGuy Eric Berger's website. I realize that these types of events don't do much to move the climate ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	13 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'The Arctic is often cited as the canary in the coal mine for climate warming. Now as a sign of climate warming, the canary has died. It is time to start getting out of the coal mines.' -- NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally
Topics: climate science, climate, quotables (all these topics)

Do we see a trend here? NASA says 2007 second-warmest year ever, with record warmth likely by 2010	Joseph Romm	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
According to NASA scientists (PDF): Through the first 11 months, 2007 is the second warmest year in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis. The unusual warmth in 2007 is noteworthy because it occurs at a time when solar irradiance is at a minimum and the equatorial Pacific Ocean has entered the cool phase of its natural El Ni�o -- La Ni�a cycle. ... barring the unlikely e ...
Topics: climate, climate science (all these topics)

Pseudoscience The sad state of Bush's science advice	Joseph Romm	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Most science advisers have taken as their job to inform the president and his administration, as well as Congress, the media, and the public, of the thinking of the scientific community on key science issues of the day. Bush's advisor, John H. Marburger III, takes the opposite view. He believes his job is to inform (misinform? disinform?) the scientific community, as well as Congress, the media, and the public, of the 'thinking' of the Bush Administration on key s ...
Topics: climate science, tech, energy, climate, politics (all these topics)

They've Got It Down to a Science House report condemns		11 Dec 2007	News
"systematic" Bush admin climate-science manipulation Posted at 7:28 AM on 11 Dec 2007 "The Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming," concludes a report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The report, written by the Democratic majority, is the product of a 16-month investiga ...
Topics: climate, climate science, Congress, news, United States (all these topics)

Beyond the point of no return It's too late to stop climate change, argues Ross Gelbspan -- so what do we do now?	Guest author	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Ross Gelbspan, who's retired from a 30-year career as an editor and reporter at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. He is author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point, and he maintains the website heatisonline.org. ----- As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent c ...
Topics: energy, climate change mitigation, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Tampering with the science Henry Waxman weighs in on Bush admin. efforts to suppress climate science	Brian Beutler	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The House Oversight committee has released its official report (PDF) on White House efforts to interfere with climate change science, and its conclusions are ... well, totally predictable. To wit: The Committee's 16-month investigation reveals a systematic White House effort to censor climate scientists by controlling their access to the press and editing testimony to Congress. The White House was particularly active in stifling discussions of the link betwe ...
Topics: climate, climate science, lying liars, politics, shenanigans (all these topics)

Climate change and flooded freeways Climate disruption comes home to the Northwest	Patrick Mazza	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In the late 1990s, after pineapple express storms caused severe flooding and deadly mudslides across the Northwest, National Climatic Data Center Chief Scientist Thomas Karl said the storms were 'an example of the type of weather patterns that would be expected to become more frequent and yield an increase in precipitation extremes as the climate continues to warm.' Welcome to the future. The Northwest was fire-hosed again in recent days, flooding commu ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Belief vs. knowledge WSJ launches Luddite attack on climate scientists and Al Gore	Joseph Romm	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The bar for Wall Street Journal editorials, in the journalistic equivalent of limbo dancing, keeps dropping. In a piece titled 'The Science of Gore's Nobel' (subs. req'd), Holman W. Jenkins Jr. of the WSJ editorial board manages to slander the media, Al Gore, the Nobel Committee, and all climate scientists -- without offering any facts to back up the attacks: The media will be tempted to blur the fact that his medal, which Mr. Gore will collect on Monday in Oslo ...
Topics: Al Gore, IPCC, climate science, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Of ice and men Another big climate bet	Joseph Romm	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Good news: I got three guys to put up a total of $1000 against the bet in my recent post, 'Ice, ice, maybe (not)': It is very safe to say the Arctic Sea will be essentially ice free by 2030, and I'd personally bet on 2020 -- any takers? Not-so-good news: The 'takers' are not global warming doubters, quite the reverse -- they are three well-known and knowledgeable climate bloggers -- James Annan, William Connolley, and Brian Schmidt -- and James and William are ...
Topics: climate, climate science (all these topics)

Averting our eyes A guest essay from climate scientist James Hansen	David Roberts	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is an essay distributed by email to a number of friends and journalists by pioneering climate scientist James Hansen. It is a response to controversy generated by his testimony before Iowa's utility board, in which he likened coal trains to 'boxcars headed to crematoria.'----- Emails received regarding the letter from the National Mining Association CEO and my letter to him (PDF) suggest a need for an apology on my part and a clarification of the bott ...
Topics: climate, climate science, coal, energy, fossil fuels (all these topics)

Report from the World Meteorological Organization CO2 levels hit new record in 2006	Joseph Romm	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in its new 2006 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, reports: In 2006, globally averaged concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reached their highest levels ever recorded ... 381.2 parts per million (ppm), up 0.53 per cent from 379.2 ppm in 2005. Note this is a one-year rise of 2.0 ppm, continuing the accelerated trend of the past decade, which is due to increases in global economic activity and carbon intensity ...
Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

So Take Off All Your Clothes 2007 likely to be sixth warmest year on record, say researchers		28 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 28 Nov 2007 The year 2007 is likely to tie with 2006 as the sixth warmest year on record, say British researchers who provide data to the World Meteorological Association. The researchers had predicted a year ago that 2007 might be the hottest evah, but it's instead likely to come in behind 1998, 2005, 2003, 2002, and 2004. Hey, those are all so recent! Wonder if that means somethin ...
Topics: climate, climate science, news (all these topics)

Ice, ice, maybe (not) Must-see ice-sheet TV	Joseph Romm	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Do you want the latest data -- some not yet published -- and the best post-IPCC scientific predictions on the stunning collapse of Arctic ice and unexpected shrinking of the Greenland (and Antarctic) ice sheets? Then you should definitely watch this C-SPAN video of yesterday's American Meteorological Society seminar (see note on link below). The seminar is by three of the world's top cryosphere experts: Dr. Mark Serreze (NOAA), Scott Luthcke (NASA), and Dr. Konrad ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

OK, I'm demanding debate Search for local climate skeptic in Texas proves fruitless	Andrew Dessler	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Awhile back, I ran across the web site demanddebate.com (hat tip: Michael Tobis). The thrust of the website is that everyone should demand debate about climate change instead of gullibly accepting the Gore/alarmist view. Their slogan is, 'I'm more worried about the intellectual climate.' I am teaching a 'intro to atmospheric science' class and had been trying to find a skeptic to come talk to the students. So I hit the contact button on the web site and asked ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, Texas (all these topics)

What do we know about climate change? Contents of the IPCC Sythesis Report Summary for Policymakers	Andrew Dessler	18 Nov 2007	Gristmill
For those not familiar with it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up in 1988 to write periodic assessments of the state of climate science. Its goal is to produce policy-neutral reports that inform policymakers about the best thinking of the scientific community. These reports have tremendous impact on the debate, owing to the credibility of the IPCC process. The IPCC is actually split into three working groups. Working group 1 focuses on basi ...
Topics: climate, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

Absolute must-read report IPCC says debate over, further delay fatal, action not costly	Joseph Romm	18 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In its definitive scientific synthesis report (PDF), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today issued its strongest call for immediate action to save humanity from the deadly consequences of unrestrained greenhouse gas emissions. This report -- signed off by 130 nations including the U.S. and China -- slams the door on any argument for delay and makes clear we must under no circumstances listen to those who urge that we wait (who knows how long ...
Topics: IPCC, climate, climate science (all these topics)

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