From a report by an international group of multi-billion dollar insurers attending the Copenhagen conference, led by Munich Re, against climate change denier claims: Business knows how to keep it simple. What does the international insurance industry want? An agreement to reduce emissions — now. What we need now is leadership. It is up toContinue reading “Insurance Industry Debunks Climate Change Deniers”
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Evan Bayh: in this economic climate, we must ignore climate change
The Senate will not act on climate change in 2010, if conservative Democrats in the Senate like Evan Bayh have their way, and Yglesias, for one, is not happy about it. He writes: Evan Bayh, too, seems like he wants to write a blog about congressional politics: “We need to deal with the phenomena ofContinue reading “Evan Bayh: in this economic climate, we must ignore climate change”
Mann’s latest temperature reconstruction record: Could a warming globe mean more La Ninas?
From a November paper by Michael Mann and cohorts in Science, meticulously reconstructing the temperature record over the last fifteen hundred years, from proxies including tree rings, pollen, coral, oxygen isotopes, sediments, and so on. The end point — in black — is from the instrumental record. This gives us a familiar conclusion — sinceContinue reading “Mann’s latest temperature reconstruction record: Could a warming globe mean more La Ninas?”
Cap and Trade: FactCheck calls GOP liars
The ACES/Waxman-Markey bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, currently going nowhere in the Senate, has been victimized by a number of outrageous misrepresentations and figures. Even if you don't think the bill is the best answer to the challenge of global warming, as many do not, that doesn't justify flat-out lying. Here are the facts,Continue reading “Cap and Trade: FactCheck calls GOP liars”
The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide (Richard Alley Explains All)
For those who would like to get the Richard Alley lecture straight from the source, the American Geophysical Union, here's the video. It's forty-two minutes long, but not a bit boring. Alley has a unique ability to explain complex topics in simple language. Here's an example of his clarity, from Alley's excellent book The Two-MileContinue reading “The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide (Richard Alley Explains All)”
CO and Temperature Changes: Richard Alley Explains
In his talk to thousands of scientists this week at the American Geophysical Union, Dr. Richard Alley, perhaps the best communicator" of all climatologists today, explained with a wonderfully simple metaphor why changes in levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere slightly lag behind changes in global temperature. It's important because this fact seems toContinue reading “CO and Temperature Changes: Richard Alley Explains”
Palin vs. Gore on Climategate
Super-blogger Andrew Sullivan has an intriguing feature on his site called The Odd Lies of Sarah Palin in which he catalogues the way the most popular so-called "conservative" in the country today lies seemingly reflexively, even about topics which are not the least bit controversial. (For instance, whether or not she consulted her daughters aboutContinue reading “Palin vs. Gore on Climategate”
Why Resistance to the Idea of Global Warming Is Rising: The “More So Syndrome”
This morning Richard Harris of NPR's Morning Edition filed a typically excellent report on why, according to polls, substantially fewer Americans believe in global warming than believed just two years ago. According to the (unaffiliated) Harris Poll, now only 51% of Americans believe that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause the earth's temperatureContinue reading “Why Resistance to the Idea of Global Warming Is Rising: The “More So Syndrome””
Global warming scientific consensus reaffirmed in popular press
In response to a hacked theft of thousands of emails from a British research center, an attack which implicitly challenges the idealism of scientists studying climate, three of our most popular science publications have rushed to reaffirm the scientific consensus on the subject. Yes, global warming is a reality on the planet today, unfortunately. It'sContinue reading “Global warming scientific consensus reaffirmed in popular press”
On “Climategate”
Those who refuse to believe in climate change have ginned up the so-called Climategate scandal to obfuscate the inescapable reality of global warming; for more, see David Roberts at Grist, or RealClimate, or (my favorite), a letter writer to Andrew Sullivan (below). In a recent post, you get to the true insanity of the wholeContinue reading “On “Climategate””
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