Another foot of snow predicted for tonight and tomorrow. This follows a two foot dump three days ago and another foot and a half that fell the weekend before Christmas. Climate change? Global warming? The next ice age? Click here...
Climate Change
-
G2 Weather Intelligence
-
Climate Change on Elmwood Drive (Snowpacalypse the Sequel)
9 Feb 2010 | 4:23 am -
Death from Above: Snow Reporting from the UK
6 Feb 2010 | 5:27 amHat tip to my friend Jarvis Cromwell for this one. Leave it to the Brits to put a snowstorm in the proper perspective. Hilarious ... -
Trust me? Signs of Damage to Public Trust in Climate Findings
6 Feb 2010 | 5:12 amGiven the potentially dire stakes associated with climate change, and the fact that both mitigation and adaptation events hinge on public trust in the science and scientists involved in the effort, bad PR and dumb mistakes (and more bad PR)... -
Monster Trees? Study Finds a Tree Growth Spurt
2 Feb 2010 | 4:26 amFrom today's NY Times. More CO2 means monster trees ... Forests in the eastern United States appear to be growing faster in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a new study has found. The study centered... -
Whats Up With Watt?
2 Feb 2010 | 3:47 amInteresting turn of events related to one of the core arguments related to the veracity of the climate change case -- garbage in, garbage out. The skeptics premise: bad temperature data resulting from poorly sited equipment has contaminated the historical...
-
350.org - Movement Dispatches and Climate News
-
We're Smiling
3 Feb 2010 | 3:22 pmin part because we're not going to jail. That's Jim Hansen in the middle (and me next to him) in 350 ties; we're surrounded by some of our co-defendants. The crime? Sleeping out on the main public square in Boston USA last fall as part of a global warming protest (The students were making the point that they didn't want their dorms heated by dirty energy). We each paid a fine, and the clerk made sure to tell Dr. Hansen, the planet's foremost climatologist, that he wouldn't have to report a criminal record on his next job application! The Massachusetts campaign continues (details… -
100% by 2020!
31 Jan 2010 | 8:10 amWe have discussed the tremendous leadership of the Maldives in the fight against climate change on numerous occassions, but this latest bit of news likely ought to make the US and other developed countries blush... In advance of the January 31 deadline to submit mitigation targets under the new Copenhagen Accord, the Maldives has reinforced their goal of becoming carbon neutral in the next decade, declaring that they will reduce CO2 emissions 100% by 2020. This comes days after the US submitted their plans to cut emissions just 17% below 2005 levels (3% below 1990 levels) and the… -
Haiti: Support our 350 friends and allies to rebuild
30 Jan 2010 | 9:07 amOn Friday, I finally was able to get updates from two of our allies in Haiti, Haiti Survie and Friends of Haiti who are working on the ground in the relief effort. Posted again from our earlier update from Haiti are some photos of the environmental education and sustainable development activities they organized on October 24th - it will be these groups who will be some of the best prepared to rebuild Haiti sustainably. Now is the time when news of the disaster and rebuilding effort starts to drift off the front pages and away from the forefront of people's minds, which is why we… -
15 Convincing Minutes
28 Jan 2010 | 11:57 amIf you have friends or family who aren't sure that global warming is a problem, this 15-minute video may be useful. It comes from an old friend of ours, Ross Gelbspan, who is a prize-winning journalist and who has been covering climate change since the mid-1990s. -
What would you do for climate action?
26 Jan 2010 | 8:32 amEach year, our good friends at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network hold an event called the Polar Bear Plunge, where they gather together a large group to go for a swim to show support for climate action. January in Washington, DC is typically cold, and this year was no exception -- but that didn't stop dozens of concerned citizens from jumping into the frigid Chesapeake Bay, with friends and family members pledging donations to support CCAN's important work. Below are a couple photos showing their commitment to keeping winter cold - by getting back to 350 as soon as possible. Also,…
-
Watts Up With That
-
What NOAA Isn’t Saying About Snow and Ice
9 Feb 2010 | 3:59 amBy Steven Goddard As reported on WUWT, NOAA is warning of “earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons.” But what NOAA isn’t saying is that snow is falling earlier and heavier in the Northern Hemisphere. Rutgers University Global Snow Lab has reported that January was the sixth snowiest on record, and that six out of the last eight Januaries were above normal snowfall. January, 2008 saw the second greatest snow extent ever recorded. December was the third snowiest on record in the Northern Hemisphere and seventeen out of last twenty-one Decembers were above normal… -
Another east coast snowstorm brewing
9 Feb 2010 | 12:04 amForecasts call for another 20 inches of snow in Washington DC with snow spreading to NYC this time. Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — Storm systems barreling across the country may bring as much as 20 inches (50 centimeters) of new snow to Washington and Baltimore starting late tomorrow, while New York may receive a foot, forecasters said. With the Washington-Baltimore area still digging out from a weekend storm that left record snowfalls in some areas, the latest blast of winter “is going to be accompanied by heavy winds, which will make it feel worse, and across the Northeast that wind is going… -
Sir David King: Half Right on the IPCC and Global Warming Policies, Despite Bad Logic
8 Feb 2010 | 8:41 pmGuest post by Indur M. Goklany Sir David King, erstwhile Chief Scientific Adviser to Her Majesty’s Government, famous for his claim that “climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today—more serious even than the threat of terrorism,” had an op-ed in the Telegraph over the weekend, in which he notes that the IPCC runs against the spirit of science. [Full disclosure: I have previously tangled with Sir David on the pages of Science magazine, here.] He states, absolutely correctly in my opinion: “Faced with the social need to tell the world what the science says, the… -
NOAA’s new website climate.gov – a first day sin of omission
8 Feb 2010 | 7:09 pmToday NOAA officially announced www.climate.gov It didn’t take skeptics long to find a sin of omission. WUWT reader Dave N. pointed this one out to me. Let’s start with the lecture to skeptics in the Dec 31st 2009 story “What the future may hold” which is an article about sea ice extent. The climate.gov website has been in “beta” for a couple of months. It was announced first on WUWT on December 2nd, 2009. There has been plenty of time to correct this story. The story states: “When you’re in a court of law, you have to swear to tell the truth, the… -
NOAA’s new ‘climate service’ – not a sure thing yet
8 Feb 2010 | 3:59 pmHere’s a chance to tell your congressperson not to waste more taxpayer money on repetitive services already handled by NCDC. This looks to be nothing more than a fast track press release service. Given how badly Tom Karl has handled PR in the past, such as the disastrous NCDC Climate Change Synthesis report with photoshopped images of floods that didn’t happen. Image above taken directly from the CCSP report. Read more here They had to hold the report to fix errors. I don’t expect this agency to be much better. – Anthony From NOAA NEWS: Commerce Department Proposes…
-
Accuweather.com: Global Warming
-
How Reliable is the U.S. Temperature Record?
7 Feb 2010 | 9:19 pmI have been meaning to blog about Matthew Menne's latest revision to his study that was posted in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The title of his study is 'On the Reliability of the U.S. Temperature Record' Here is the link. In the study, Menne evaluated and compared temperature trends of poor vs. well suited U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) sites in response to photo evidence by surfacestations.org of widespread poor siting conditions of these sites across the country. Anthony Watts (Watt's Up with That), in particular, has speculated that U.S. surface temperature records… -
IPCC Head Responds to the Glacier Fiasco and other Questions
5 Feb 2010 | 8:11 amThe Economist just recently interviewed Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, who is the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In the interview, Dr. Pachauri discusses the Himalayan Glacier debacle. The Economist also questions Dr. Pachauri about certain conflict-of-interests. This is a good Q & A......... Here is the link to the Economist interview. -
Penn State Climate Scientist Cleared of Most Serious Charges
3 Feb 2010 | 1:39 pmJust saw this breaking story from Penn State University.......... An academic board of inquiry from the Pennsylvania State University has largely cleared Climate scientist Michael Mann of science misconduct, but a second panel will decide if his behavior undermined public faith in the science of climate change, according to the New York Times story. Three of the four allegations were dismissed completely. Dr. Mann was one of the central figures that was brought up in the "climategate" email controversy. AccuWeather.com's Katie Fehlinger of Headline Earth ran an exclusive three-part video… -
Did Sudden Drop in Water Vapor Slow the Rate of Warming?
3 Feb 2010 | 12:46 pmNew research from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Colorado indicates that there was a sudden, unexplained drop in the amount of high atmospheric water vapor almost a decade ago (late 2000 and early 2001). Water vapor is a powerful, widespread greenhouse gas. A water vapor image from GOES satellite, courtesy of NOAA The researchers claim that this drop has substantially slowed the rate of warming at the earth's surface in recent years, according to the US News article. The research team's modeling suggests that the rate of increase in the average global surface temperature from 2000… -
Were Problems with Key Chinese Temperature Data Previously Hidden?
2 Feb 2010 | 6:08 amIt's back to climategate and Phil Jones once again........... The UK's Guardian has supposedly uncovered evidence that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed (from a 1990 study) and that documents relating to them could not be produced. These claims by the Guardian are based on their investigation of thousands of emails and documents that were illegally hacked from the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit a couple months ago. The result of this incident was "climategate". The temperature data from the Chinese weather stations measured the…
-
Climate Audit
-
A “Small Document”
7 Feb 2010 | 6:58 amOn July 29, 2009, Phil Jones emailed Tom Peterson of NOAA (1248902393.txt) … I have a question for you. I’m going to write a small document for our web site to satisfy (probably the wrong word) the 50 or so FOI/EIR requests we’ve had over the weekend. I will put up the various agreements we have with Met Services. The “document” was subsequently put up at the CRU website here and, as Jones said, it was “small” (1257 words plus references). Jones put up four scrappy agreements, none of which included language that supported his refusal to send me… -
Rose on Fortress Met Office
7 Feb 2010 | 5:57 amDavid Rose of the Mail places the Met Office obstruction of FOI requests squarely in the spotlight. The Met Office obstruction left a singularly bad taste with their sequence of untrue excuses for not producing John Mitchell’s Review Editor comments. First, they claimed that Mitchell had deleted all the emails concerning AR4. (This excuse came on June 2, 2008, three days after Jones had sent an email asking Mann, Briffa, Ammann and Wahl to delete their emails concerning AR4. We know that Jones and Briffa had corresponded with Mitchell in March about Holland’s request to the Met… -
Leake: Today’s IPCC Blooper
7 Feb 2010 | 5:53 amJonathan Leake of the Sunday Times has another IPCC blooper for breakfast tomorrow, this one about a looming 50% decline in north African crop production, a claim that occurs not just in the eccentric WG2, but the Synthesis Report: The most important is a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. The claim was based on a non-peer reviewed pamphlet by an NGO. The… -
Slimed by Bagpuss the Cat Reporter
7 Feb 2010 | 4:23 amAs many CA readers know, I was slimed today in the Independent by reporter Paul Bignell, best known for his hard-hitting expose of Bagpuss the cat. Bignell reported: The children’s television producer Coolabi has bought the rights to produce Bagpuss for television, but Mr Postgate’s son, Daniel, has scotched plans to bring the series back. Talking from his home in Kent this weekend, Daniel Postgate, a children’s author and illustrator, said he hadn’t liked the new proposals at all. In a statement, Andrew Lloyd Weaver said that Bagpuss is a known henchman of Moriarty… -
Pielke Debate Online
6 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pmMaurizio Morabito’s twitter notes here. Audio here. I’ve been trying for about 10 days to get a digital version of Muir-Wood’s data, sending three requests so far without an acknowledgement (Pielke Jr doesn’t have a copy of the Muir-Wood data.)
-
ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
-
High-altitude climbs may cause corneal swelling, but do not appear to affect vision
9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 amSwelling commonly occurs in the corneas of mountain climbers, but does not appear to affect vision at altitudes of up to 6,300 meters (about 20,670 feet), according to a new study. -
Will earlier springs throw nature out of step?
9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 amThe recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a new study. The research is the most comprehensive and rigorous assessment so far of long-term changes in the seasonal timing of biological events across marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments in the UK. -
New method for measuring fluid flow in algae could herald revolution for fluid mechanics
9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 amResearchers in fluid dynamics have studied algae to illuminate fluid mechanics. One of the researchers said, "Nature has long inspired researchers in fluid mechanics to explore the mechanical strategies used by living creatures. Where better to look for innovative solutions to a technological challenge than to organisms that have had millions of years to devise strategies for related challenges?" -
Evolution impacts environment: Fundamental shift in how biologists perceive relationship between evolution and ecology
8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pmThe traditional view is that ecology shapes evolution. Some research has suggested, however, that evolutionary processes reciprocate by influencing ecology in turn. Now biologists present evidence that ecology and evolution are indeed reciprocally interacting processes, presenting a fundamental shift in our understanding of the relationship between evolution and ecology. The results represent a first significant step in showing that evolution cannot be ignored when studying ecological interactions. -
'Boutique' fish farms created for Ugandans to combat Lake Victoria's depleted fish supplies
8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pmIn a unique project to combat depleted fish supplies in Lake Victoria, researchers have established 'boutique' fish farms in small villages around the Lake's shore in Uganda.
-
Google Blog Search: Climate Change
-
Climate change movement dead? | Cynthia Tucker
9 Feb 2010 | 5:05 amIs the earth a sphere? Or is it flat? Common sense — the observations of your five senses — tells you it's flat, right? That's the same common sense that. -
New Federal Climate Change Office to be Created by NOAA | TopNews ...
9 Feb 2010 | 3:18 amOfficial announcements have confirmed that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be creating an all new climate change office to collect and provide data and statistics to Governments, industries and academic ... -
Bracknell Blog: Climate Change IPCC Must Use Science
9 Feb 2010 | 1:48 amThe recent IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) failures which includes admitting that they got the figures wrong on the Himalayan glaciers proves how important it is to use science. If you don't have science to back up your ... -
Climate Change & Human Health: a Canadian Perspective | Climate of ...
9 Feb 2010 | 12:06 amA report by the US National Academies' National Research Council, Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises, warns that people can expect “climate surprises” in the form of “large, abrupt and unwelcome regional or global climatic ... -
The Understory » Put Climate Change on Trial
8 Feb 2010 | 10:26 pmRainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
-
Climate Sanity
-
Amazing multiplying hockey stick proxies
2 Feb 2010 | 10:31 pmIn my previous post I wrote about the five super-simple steps for building a hockey stick: Step 1. Gather time series. Step 2. Select those time series that fit the instrumental (measured) temperature record of choice. Assume that since these time series match the measured temperature in some way, then they are, in fact, temperature proxies. Step 3. Combine the chosen proxies in some fashion and note, not surprisingly, that the combined proxies match the temperature record. (duh) Call this your temperature reconstruction. Step 4. Call this thing made from the combined proxies your… -
Super-simple hockey stick explanation.
31 Jan 2010 | 5:14 pmI have been reading over the blog posts of Steve McIntryre and Jeff Id and others about the nuances of various constructions of the hockey stick. I’ve been examining the archived Mann08 data at the NCDC. This is my attempt to boil down hockey stick construction to its bare-bones, expressed as five essential steps: Step 1. Gather time series. | ↓ Step 2. Select those time series that fit the instrumental (measured) temperature record of choice. Assume that since these time series match the instrumental temperature record in some way, then they are, in fact, temperature… -
Mann’s 1209 temperature proxies
20 Jan 2010 | 10:40 pmI believe that data used temperature reconstructions, which are in turn used to push for re-structuring the economy of the world, should be easily accessible to everybody. You can view the plots of all 1,209 proxies used by Michael Mann for his 2008 hockey stick temperature reconstruction joined together into one giant image. Amazingly, the images are relatively small (less than one megabyte) and will download quite quickly. The proxies are arranged in alphabetical order, right to left and up to down. Steve McIntyre, Jeff Id, and others have done a vast amount of work analyzing how Mann,… -
No Wikipedia
9 Jan 2010 | 12:56 pmI have occasionally referenced Wikipedia as a source for noncontroversial material, such as areas or populations of countries. But I have been very leery about using Wikipedia references for controversial or politically sensitive topics. Wikipedia has some fundamental problems. Ironically, these problems stem from what are touted as Wikipedia’s greatest features. Wikipedia brags that “Anyone can be a Wikipedian—including you. Just click the edit link at the top of any page, or one of the ones at the beginning of each section.” Sounds good, Wikipedia has empowered… -
Funny Cap and Trade advice for President Obama from the NYP
3 Jan 2010 | 3:56 pmKyle Smith at the New York Post gives this advice to President Obama… Mr. President, why not deal with global warming with a nice interfaith prayer summit? You can invite every Imam and Buddhist monk you know — don’t forget the pagans! — to hold hands and ask for a solution from whatever all-inclusive, nonpatriarchal supreme force might be inclined to listen. It’ll have the same effect on global warming as walloping everybody who uses carbon-based energy with a huge tax. Smith isn’t known for economic insight, but in this case he hit the nail on the head.
-
Climate Skeptic
-
Reminder on Comment Policy
6 Feb 2010 | 8:16 amI do not moderate the comments for anything other than spam. While I have banned a couple of folks over time, I am not sure you would even need two hands to count them. My reasons: I don’ t have time. Period. If I had to spend the time to moderate comments here, I would have to give up blogging. This is a hobby, and in fact real life has been unbelievably busy of late. An example here. I have little inclination to do so. If I wanted to constantly monitor the behavior of a couple of hundred people, I would have been a 7th grade teacher It is strategic (part 1). I find… -
The Madness of Prince Charles
5 Feb 2010 | 9:05 amCharleses have not had the best of luck on the English throne. And the current Prince of Wales does not seem to be doing much to change that tradition. The other day he said: “Well, if it is but a myth, and the global scientific community is involved in some sort of conspiracy, why is it then that around the globe sea levels are more than six inches higher than they were 100 years ago? “This isn’t an opinion – it is a fact.” He added: “And, ladies and gentlemen please be in no doubt that the evidence of long-term and potentially irreversible changes to our world is utterly… -
Dodgy Citations
3 Feb 2010 | 9:15 amClimate Quotes is keeping up a list of questionable or outright odd citations in the IPCC AR4 and AR3 Many are barely more than press releases from influence groups. -
What Do The World’s 25 Dirtiest Cities Have In Common?
2 Feb 2010 | 12:50 pmThey are all poor. Think on that, environmentalists, when you argue that limiting CO2 emissions should trump economic growth. -
Shut Up, For the Children
2 Feb 2010 | 12:40 pmThought I would share a couple of bits of an email I got today. The email showed a distinct lack of familiarity with the nuances of my climate position, so my guess is this may be a form letter. I find it interesting a 17-year-old knows the term “NGO” but does not know to capitalize the first letter in a sentence (emphasis added). hello. this is a (hopefully) reasonable and (hopefully) well thought out message. firstly i will say that i am 17 years old and not under the sway of any goverments/NGOs. i believe that what you are doing with your climate skeptic blog is dangerous.
-
Journey to the Sinking Lands
-
This just in
2 Feb 2010 | 1:00 amI’ve just been told that the BBC are entering the Journey of a Lifetime doco, which went out on Radio 4, for this year’s One World Media awards. Very exiting stuff, but the competition will be amazing, so I’m not getting any hopes up yet. I’ll let you know if anything happens. -
On tour
18 Dec 2009 | 3:35 amA few more tour dates have been added for next year, which I have listed in the column to the right. As well as these public dates, I’ve also been asked to speak at quite a few schools, colleges and university societies. I’m pursuing a policy of saying yes to all of these invitations – after all, I was given a slab of money to make the Journey of a Lifetime, the least I can do is share the experience – which means I’m going to be nice and busy in 2010. -
Talking and (silly) walking
18 Dec 2009 | 3:31 amI gave the Monday Night Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society about the Carterets journey this week (would have blogged earlier, but have been laid up with flu). It was a real privilege, it was good fun and a great way to end the year on a project that, to my suprise, has come to dominate the year. A whole bunch of friends and family came down to watch, as well as the entire class six of Clearwell Primary School – one of the schools that I visited before and after I went to the islands, and who followed the journey live on this blog. The Society president, Michael Palin, hosted the… -
On the road again
17 Nov 2009 | 9:32 amI’ve been asked to go on tour by the Royal Geographical Society, talking about the Carterets trip as part of their regional lecture series next year. I’ll post more details when I get them but, until then, these are the dates I have so far: February 25, 2010. Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire. March 30, 2010. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. May 6, 2010. The Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton. -
World Service
13 Oct 2009 | 1:38 amA version of the Journey of a Lifetime doco has been broadcast on the BBC World Service. I missed it (though with any luck some of the those I met in Papua New Guinea did not), but you can catch it here.
-
The Island of Doubt
-
Why the denial camp is winning (and we're all losing) the climate wars
4 Feb 2010 | 7:44 amIt's not so much that the pseudoskeptics who dominate the climate change denial camp are particularly clever, but they have been rather fortunate, and the forces aligned on the side of science have turned out to be human after all. The result is the denial camp is winning, and those on the defensive have some thinking to do. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... -
More distractions on the climate front
2 Feb 2010 | 6:15 amNever mind that the first decade of the 21st century was the warmest on record. Or that 2009 tied for the second-warmest year. Neither of those stories are consuming much airtime and web- and print-space. No, the biggest stories on the climate beat involve allegations of fraudulent activity on the part of some of the world's most experienced climatologists. The latest example concerns the lack of records specifying the location of remote Chinese weather stations and just how much they moved. As Fred Pearce writes in The Guardian, "It is difficult to imagine a more bizarre academic dispute."… -
Delingpole invents another "--gate" for his pseudoskeptical fans
30 Jan 2010 | 2:09 pmJames Delingpole continues to enjoy the privileges of blogging on the Daily Telegraph's imprimatur, despite his repeated misstatements on climatology. His latest affront to journalistic norms comes in the form of another alleged failure of a team of IPCC authors to cite real science. He's calling it "Amazongate." Oh dear. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... -
The public-scientist disconnect
27 Jan 2010 | 12:27 pmSo, to recap: More than 96% of working climatologists say the global mean temperatures are rising, but only 34% of the public believes "Most scientists think global warming is happening." How did we let this happen? Read the comments on this post... -
Daily Mail invents a climate conspiracy
26 Jan 2010 | 12:10 pmI've never met David Rose of the U.K.'s Daily Mail. And, while his past reporting on climate issues has tended to misrepresent the science of the day, it is entirely possible his editors are to blame for the fictionalization of his latest story. So I won't point fingers at this juncture. Regardless, the affair is an ominous reminder of how easily an idea can migrate across the world in a matter of hours even though anyone with a middle-school education could spot the flaw within a few seconds. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
-
Climate Feedback
-
Climate-gate, scepticism, and Pachauri’s potboiler
8 Feb 2010 | 9:51 amCross-posted from Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond Just in case you think that the IPCC/climate-gate story has petered out in the last few days… Phil Jones, the University of East Anglia scientist whose stolen emails caused the worldwide ‘climate-gate’ kerfuffle, has told The Sunday Times he contemplated killing himself. “I did think about it, yes. About suicide,” he says. “I thought about it several times, but I think I’ve got past that stage now.” Full post on The Great Beyond… -
Indian Prime Minister backs IPCC
5 Feb 2010 | 1:09 amQuirin Schiermeier Indian Premier Manmohan Singh has backed the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, who has come under fire for his dealing with a recently discovered error and a number of other alleged inaccuracies in the last IPCC report. The IPCC had mistakenly stated in its 2007 report that all Himalayan glaciers are likely to melt away by 2035 as a result of global warming. The error, and allegations of conflict of interest against Pachauri, who also acts as director of The Energy Research Institute (TERI) in Delhi, have… -
Quotes of the day
3 Feb 2010 | 7:27 amCross-posted from Mark Peplow on The Great Beyond “Sanjay put his arms around her and kissed her, first with quick caresses and then the kisses becoming longer and more passionate.” UN climate change supreme Rajendra Pachauri gets physical in a line from his novel, Return to Almora, published last month. The Telegraph has some more – ahem – graphic extracts. “We need to work differently, making more data available and making our assumptions clear. Everything needs to be more and more open and we will be striving to do that in the future.” Phil Jones, former director of the… -
The road from Copenhagen
2 Feb 2010 | 10:07 amOlive Heffernan The latest issue of Nature Reports Climate Change, online today, takes a look at what is next for climate policy post-Copenhagen. I put together a round-up of responses from several experts on what they consider to be the most important milestones on the road from Copenhagen. I was curious as to where that road should lead to: Mexico in November, South Africa in 2011, or some destination outside of the UN calendar of scheduled conferences? Do we need a different route altogether, considering the failure of the UN to deliver an agreement in Copenhagen that everyone, well,… -
IPCC: in need of a rethink?
2 Feb 2010 | 9:11 amOlive Heffernan Today on Nature.com, my colleague Quirin Schiermeier reports on the allegations that have, of late, been plaguing the UN body that assesses the science of climate change. Aside from Glaciergate and other claims of inaccuracy in reporting the science, now Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is under pressure to resign because the institute he directs, the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, has ties with companies that could benefit from climate policies, writes Schiermeier. In response, many climatologists have been considering…
-
Climate Change: Changing our World
-
The Bigger Kahuna: Are More Frequent and Higher Extreme Waves a By-Product of Global Warming?
3 Feb 2010 | 3:47 amIncreasing maximum wave heights off the Pacific Northwest coast may pose a greater threat than rising sea levelsArmand Thibault looked out over the Pacific's rumbling winter waves from his balcony in Neskowin, Ore. "The predicted high tide today is a 10.1 [feet]," he relayed via YouTube on Friday, January 29. "I'm very glad we don't have a storm surge behind this one. Tomorrow is supposed to be a 10.2, so it should be interesting."Fortunately, Neskowin didn't experience a storm surge on Saturday either. But like a growing number of seaside towns along the Pacific Northwest coast, it is only a… -
CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Await Haitian-Type Disaster
27 Jan 2010 | 5:16 pmUNITED NATIONS, Jan 19, 2010 (IPS) - The devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti last week has brought into sharp focus the threat of another natural disaster waiting to happen: a sea-level rise that could obliterate the world's small island states, triggering fears of mass migration.But contrary to initial reports, the Indian Ocean island of Maldives says it has no plans to relocate its 300,000 inhabitants or purchase land in neighbouring countries to re-settle Maldivians before the impending devastation."Maldives does not have a relocation plan and had at no time ever considered… -
Global warming could lead to rise in powerful hurricane.
22 Jan 2010 | 5:23 pmLondon, January 22 (ANI): A new study has determined that the number of major Atlantic hurricanes per year may almost double by the end of the century in response to global warming.In 2008, a group led by Thomas Knutson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, New Jersey, projected a marked reduction in the overall number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the western North Atlantic Ocean.That result, based on a simulation of Atlantic hurricane activity in a warming world, came as a surprise.Seeking an… -
Climate Wizard Makes Large Databases of Climate Information Visual, Accessible
3 Jan 2010 | 10:36 am(Dec. 29, 2009) — A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such things as habitat shifts that will affect endangered species, places around the world where crops could be at risk because of drought and temperatures that could cripple fruit and nut production in California's Great Central Valley.Climate Wizard, a tool meant for scientists and non-scientists alike, is being demonstrated by The Nature Conservancy in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with the… -
The Known Universe: A perspective from which to reflect on climate change
20 Dec 2009 | 2:40 pm
-
Jennifer Marohasy
-
Pachauri Must Resign – UN IPCC is ’sub-prime science’ – Why is Gore Silent? – Banks withdraw from carbon trading – Withdraw UN IPCC Nobel: Marc Morano
25 Jan 2010 | 2:20 pmFlashback 2008: Scientist: ‘Global warming’ is sub-prime science, sub-prime economics, and sub-prime politics, and it could well go down with the sub-prime mortgage’ http://web.me.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/Entries/2008/9/21_Global_Warming%E2%80%99s_Boom_Bust.html Paper: UN climate chief Pachauri used ‘bogus’ climate claims ‘to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds’ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999975.ece UN IPCC Exposed: ‘Dozens’ of instances where WWF reports have been… -
Glacial Melt Farce
21 Jan 2010 | 1:12 pm“LET me get this right… The fraudster who runs the IPCC global warming scam and makes millions from that office Employs the bloke who gave the scientific evidence for glacier melt in the Himalayas totally removing them from the face of the earth by 2035 Over the phone To a bloke at New Scientist Who printed it And when the WWF used this in a report and from that it got into report 4 of the IPCC as solid evidence they were melting For which report the IPCC received a Nobel Peace Prize Taxpayers so far have had 92 billion dollars wasted supposedly… -
Climategate Analysis: SPPI
21 Jan 2010 | 1:03 pmThe Science and Public Policy Institute has published an analysis of the leaked climategate emails. This 149-page document takes the emails in chronological order and shows, with comments on each message, how science was perverted. In the introductory material the report says: The entire industry of “climate science” was created out of virtually nothing, by means of a massive influx of funding that was almost universally one-sided in its requirement that its recipients find evidence for man-made climate change—not investigate whether or how much mankind had caused climate change. Many… -
Climategate Hits the US: Kenneth Haapala
17 Jan 2010 | 12:39 amFOR MUCH of the Northern Hemisphere, the cold is abating. As climate scientists long realized, a short period does not create a trend. Even global warming advocates, who insisted that the 1998 El Nino warming was a trend, are now claiming that the cold does not contradict their warming trend. Their time spans are evidently extremely adjustable. The week ended with real heat: Climategate hit the United States. On Thursday night January 14, 2010, in an hour-long special broadcast on KUSI-TV San Diego, John Coleman revealed new research by computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified… -
News from Kenneth Haapala
26 Dec 2009 | 2:47 pmFor an interview with Fred Singer in Copenhagen please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNQoQ2Tr18&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh+div-1r-5-HM According to the New York Times the real success of Copenhagen was Western nations pledging to fund developing countries through international mechanisms. “Copenhagen’s One Real Accomplishment: Getting Some Money Flowing” by James Kanter, New York Times, Dec 20 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/business/energy-environment/21iht-green21.html?_r=1&hpw. However journalists for Der Spiegel consider Copenhagen a failure. “Copenhagen Was an…
-
The Blackboard
-
Bet UAH 2010 ANNUAL Average
9 Feb 2010 | 6:23 amZeke recommended we bet on the Annual Average temperature. As usual, I’m having us bet on the annual average temperature UAH Temperature of the Lower Troposphere as reported by Roy Spencer. This is selected because it’s always the first to report; for purposes of betting we will use the value reported by Roy Spencer at his blog or at UAH itself whichever appears first. Later this week, I’ll post a bet for HadCrut which is usually the last monthly report by an official agency that is easily accessible on the web. You may enter your bets in Quatloos below: Bets close midnight… -
Paul Dennis’ Blog
9 Feb 2010 | 5:31 amPaul Dennis of University of East Anglia has started a new blog called Harmonic Oscillator. I’ve added this to my blogroll and encourage you to visit a time or two over the next few weeks. Good luck Paul! -
Wow! Google is Lightning Fast.
7 Feb 2010 | 1:04 pmImmediately after I clicked “publish”, I wondered if I could discover more details about getting tickets to the Tim Lambert/ Lord Monckton debate. I went to google and searched “Tim Lambert Monckton debate sydney 12 February” . My blog post appeared in the search results with an indication that I had posted 50 seconds ago! Wow. I refreshed, and my blog appeared as the #1 search result indicating I’d posted a minute earlier. (Not too hard since this is a very detailed search query. ) I wanted to see if the post appeared on a slightly more general search so I… -
Lambert v. Monckton
7 Feb 2010 | 12:49 pmTim Lambert told is blog audience he will be debating Christopher Monckton (The Viscount); the title of the debate will be, “Does Anthropogenic Global Warming Endanger Mankind?” The moderator will be Alan Jones. Location: The Grand Ballroom at the Sydney Hilton Hotel Time: 12.30pm to 2.30pm on Friday 12 February 2010. Tim described the structure of the debate: Each speaker will present a 10-15 minute Synopsis of his argument The Moderator, Alan Jones, will ask a sequence of say four (4) relevant questions with the order of speaking being reversed each question. Questions will be… -
LaRouche was on the RIGHT?!
6 Feb 2010 | 8:56 amIn an article criticizing Monckton, Australian journalist Mike Carlton says some things I would not contradict. However, he also says something thing rather puzzling to my American ears. This world government codswallop began years ago with one Lyndon H. LaRouche, a conspiracy theory lunatic so far to the right he makes George W. Bush look like Hugo Chavez American politician Lyndon LaRouche is right of George W. Bush? LaRouche was– and probably still is– a lunatic, but he is decidedly not on the right. Admittedly, he may also not have been on the left. He might better be…
-
RealClimate
-
Good news for the earth’s climate system?
6 Feb 2010 | 7:08 amGuest Commentary by Jim Bouldin (UC Davis) How much additional carbon dioxide will be released to, or removed from, the atmosphere, by the oceans and the biosphere in response to global warming over the next century? That is an important question, and David Frank and his Swiss coworkers at WSL have just published an interesting new approach to answering it. They empirically estimate the distribution of gamma, the temperature-induced carbon dioxide feedback to the climate system, given the current state of the knowledge of reconstructed temperature, and carbon dioxide concentration, over the… -
The wisdom of Solomon
29 Jan 2010 | 6:28 pmA quick post for commentary on the new Solomon et al paper in Science express. We’ll try and get around to discussing this over the weekend, but in the meantime I’ve moved some comments over. There is some commentary on this at DotEarth, and some media reports on the story – some good, some not so good. It seems like a topic that is ripe for confusion, and so here are a few quick clarifications that are worth making. First of all, this is a paper about internal variability of the climate system in the last decade, not on additional factors that drive climate. Second, this is… -
The IPCC is not infallible (shock!)
19 Jan 2010 | 1:54 pmLike all human endeavours, the IPCC is not perfect. Despite the enormous efforts devoted to producing its reports with the multiple levels of peer review, some errors will sneak through. Most of these will be minor and inconsequential, but sometimes they might be more substantive. As many people are aware (and as John Nieslen-Gammon outlined in a post last month and Rick Piltz goes over today), there is a statement in the second volume of the IPCC (WG2), concerning the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are receding that is not correct and not properly referenced. The statement, in a chapter on… -
2009 temperatures by Jim Hansen
17 Jan 2010 | 8:02 amThis is Hansen et al’s end of year summary for 2009 (with a couple of minor edits). Update: A final version of this text is available here. If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Damned Cold? by James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Makiko Sato, and Ken Lo The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, as shown… -
Plass and the Surface Budget Fallacy
13 Jan 2010 | 2:26 amRealClimate is run by a rather loosely organized volunteer consortium of people with day jobs that in and of themselves can be quite consuming of attention. And so it came to pass that the first I learned about Gavin’s interest in the work of Plass was — by reading RealClimate! In fact, David Archer and I have a book due to appear this year from Wiley/Blackwell (The Warming Papers), which is a collection of historic papers on global warming, together with interpretive essays by David and myself. Needless to say, we pay a lot of attention to the seminal work by Plass in this book.
-
the Air Vent
-
A. Montford, Interviewed by the Register.
8 Feb 2010 | 10:20 amCool interview with Andrew Montford. – Check out his book, it’s excellent and will be added to the left of this blog next to the Climategate book by Mosher and Fuller, when I get time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/08/andrew_montford_interview/ -
Precautionary Principle
8 Feb 2010 | 9:32 amThis is the kind of thinking which get’s us down the wrong path. The precautionary principle from Wiki stated below: The precautionary principle states that if an action or policy has suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of a scientific consensus that harm would not ensue, the burden of proof falls on those who would advocate taking the action. Effectively, this principle allows policy makers to make discretionary decisions in situations where there is evidence of potential harm in the absence of complete scientific proof. The principle… -
Tough Times
7 Feb 2010 | 8:23 amOk, this is a bit difficult to blog on b/c it deals with a man so emotionally distraught but it’s very difficult to have sympathy for him. The same guy who would hide the decline, claim he didn’t, delete IPCC emials, claim he didn’t, write that he would rather delete temperature data than let people see it. He’s now had several death threats and was thinking of killing himself – all this occurred because he would not let people see the thermometer data. I doubt that a terrorist cell could create such loyalty. I am sorry this cocky arrogant bastard is having such… -
Travels in Europe-Part 1
6 Feb 2010 | 7:36 amGuest post by Tony Brown —– This is the view from the hill above my house circa 1890. It overlooks the town of Teignmouth on England’s South West coast, where a fascinating parade of characters have lived over the centuries. Figure 1 View of Teignmouth, Devon http://www.oldukphotos.com/devon_teignmouth.htm The question today is which of them should we follow in our next excursion into historic climate change, as evidenced by instrumental temperature records? From my window I can see the landing place of the last invasion of England by a foreign power which destroyed the town in… -
Climatequotes, at it again.
5 Feb 2010 | 4:08 pmThis was just sent to me by email. Click the title and give him a comment or two for support.. ———– IPCC bases claim of 1.3 billion agricultural workers on news article, changes title It is now clear that the IPCC has made several factual errors in their Fourth Assessment Report. The Himalayan glaciers will not melt by 2035, and more than half of the Netherlands are not below sea level. I may have found another error. If it is not an error, it is certainly some very sloppy work. In AR4, WGIII, section 8.4.5 Potential implications of mitigation options for sustainable…
-
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
-
Garrad Hassan Unveils Service Suite For Small-scale Wind, Solar PV Projects
8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pmInternational renewable energy consultancy Garrad Hassan, has unveiled a service suite for developers of small-scale wind and solar photovoltaic projects, in response to the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) new Feed-In-Tariff scheme. The offering includes: wind resource estimation, wind and solar project management support, equipment selection and grid connection. -
CoaLogix, FLSmidth Form Alliance To Provide SO3, Mercury Remediation Technology
8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pmCoaLogix has reported that its subsidiary CoaLogix Tech has signed an agreement with FLSmidth to provide SO3 and mercury remediation technologies to the coal fired power generation market. With this agreement, CoaLogix Tech becomes the partner for selling and executing FLSmidth's SO3 reduction technology into the power generation market. -
Innergex Begins Commercial Operation Of Fitzsimmons Creek Hydro Power Plant
8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pmInnergex Renewable Energy (Innergex) has started commercial operation of its Fitzsimmons Creek run-of-river hydroelectric power generating plant (Fitzsimmons Creek), located between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains in the Resort Municipality of Whistler, British Columbia. -
Nalco Mobotec Signs Mercury Emission Control Contract With PPL
8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pmNalco Mobotec, specializing in air protection technology, has signed a contract with PPL to provide mercury emission control at a coal-fired power plant near Colstrip, Montana. PPL is operator and part owner of the Colstrip power plant. -
BHEL Wins INR10bn Contract For Hydro Power Project In Bhutan
7 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pmIndian state-run utility Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured a contract for supplying electro-mechanical equipment to 1,200MW Punatsangchhu-I hydroelectric in Bhutan.
-
The Life Behind Powwownow
-
Spring may have sprung early, but let’s not jump to conclusions
9 Feb 2010 | 6:43 am[image courtesy of davidezartz on flickr] If, like me, you braved the cold, wet and windy weather over the last couple of days, you’ll be forgiven for raising one eyebrow at the latest reports that Spring is here already, 11 days early. The study found that four out of five animals and plants are breeding earlier because of changes in UK weather patterns. I’m sure those animals will have a better nose for recognising gradual changes in weather so I won’t argue with them. The reason I thought this was interesting is because in my blog post earlier this month, I said I hoped that… -
Powwownow Sponsorship at Twickenham
9 Feb 2010 | 4:50 amPowwownow is delighted to be sponsoring the Six Nations games at Twickenham rugby stadium -
Gary Neville, the footballing Captain Planet
29 Jan 2010 | 2:52 am[An artist's impression of Gary Neville's new eco-mansion. Photo: MAKE ARCHITECTS OF LONDON] This week I’d like to congratulate Gary Neville for again trying to do his bit for the environment by introducing some radical designs for a state-of-the-art zero-carbon house. Known as an eco-warrior in the footballing world, the former England defender already drives a Toyota Prius hybrid car to training, probably to the amusement of his Manchester United colleagues. And now, after three years’ hard work, he and architect firm Make have submitted their designs for the 8,000 sq ft super… -
Why the big conspiracy?
28 Jan 2010 | 3:34 am[image courtesy of Daniel Bos] One of the delights of the internet is that no matter how obscure your interests, you’re likely to find somebody out there with the same interests as you. Whether river dancing, Eastern European gangster movies or plate spinning floats your boat, you’ll have no problem finding someone else out there who’s into it, too. It’s just one of the reasons the internet is so great. Of course it also means that those with more controversial views can find others with the same beliefs. A view that they may have seemed ludicrous to them when it first popped into… -
Cake Club Quarter finals 2
21 Jan 2010 | 5:35 amThis week saw the second quarter final with Nick and Zarah battling it out for a place in the semi finals, both cakes were amazing. Zarah produced a lovely Chocolate Banana Cake (bottom) and Nick produced a Carrot Cake (Top one) After much tasting and votes being cast we saw Nick Triumph to a 9-5 victory. Next week we are due to have Carl and Mike fight for a place in the semi finals Tune in next week for the result!
-
Climate Change Views
-
Climate Science on Trial
8 Feb 2010 | 1:45 pm" ... The global warming movement as we have known it is dead," writes Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations in The American Interest. "The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics ..." Walter Mead, whose expertise normally has more to do with U.S. foreign policy, International and domestic politics, religion and foreign policy has been cited a lot with his latest writings on climate change issues. Quick, name the most distrusted occupations. Trial lawyers? Pretty skuzzy, as witness the disgraced John Edwards, kept from the vice presidency in 2004 by the… -
Mining emissions increase by 28% in one year
8 Feb 2010 | 1:31 pmStudy commissioned by VicSuper shows that mining and metal company emissions are rising fast. DIRECT greenhouse gas emissions from the biggest mining and metals companies have ballooned by 28 per cent in one year, making that sector the biggest source of Australia's industrial emissions growth, a study shows.Superannuation fund VicSuper has issued analysis it commissioned from consultants Trucost into the emissions of the largest companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, or the S&P/ASX 200 Index component companies. VicSuper said the latest scientific evidence showed that… -
Forget ETS, explore Carbon Tax
8 Feb 2010 | 1:06 pm“ ... Australia will be left with a carbon pollution reduction scheme drowning in its own morass of complex rules and spiralling compliance costs ... The better way of imposing a cost of carbon on the Australian community that avoids many of the practical inefficiencies of an ETS, is a carbon tax ...” Energy academic wants Rudd Government to scrap plans for an ETS in favour of a Carbon tax. One of Australia’s foremost energy academics has called on the Federal Government to immediately introduce a carbon tax and drop any move to an emissions trading scheme (ETS). Professor Tony Owen,… -
Earth's Orbit and Climate Trends
8 Feb 2010 | 12:54 pmNew research from the Universities of Tuebingen (Germany) and Bristol, show that we don't yet fully understand the relationship between the planets orbit and our climate cycle. The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect climate well enough for estimating long-term natural climate trends that underlie any anthropogenic climate change is challenged by findings just published. The new research was conducted by a team led by Professor Eelco Rohling of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science hosted at the National Oceanography Centre,… -
Lord Monckton in Melbourne
7 Feb 2010 | 9:10 amTwo videos highlighting Lord Christopher Monckton’s Presentation at the Sofitel Melbourne as recorded 1st February 2010...Videos found at The Australian ConservativeRelated 1: Bolt condemns media coverage of MoncktonRelated 2: Blair also condemns media coverage of MoncktonFor more on Christopher Monckton be sure to click the "Lord Monckton" labelClick here to visit the Climate Change Views Blog - Your gateway to the best quality links representing all perspectives relating to the Global Warming contention ...
-
1Sky Blog Posts about everything
-
DC Hill Update 2/08: Jobs, jobs, jobs
8 Feb 2010 | 7:05 amThe DC metro area was slammed with over two feet of snow over the weekend. The federal government is closed today, but the show must go on… climate change won’t wait! Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are still working to craft a bill that will attract 60 votes. Jobs bills have taken center stage of late, but the trio continue to work out the specifics of a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill to be introduced sometime this spring. While their negotiations move forward in DC, 1Sky organizers are preparing to build support for strong… -
Blog & news round-up 2/5: Copenhagen targets are in, America speaks up for clean energy, and a look at the world's windpower
5 Feb 2010 | 12:49 pmAs we here in Maryland prepare for another crazy snow weekend, we look back on a busy climate week. The biggest carbon emitter countries handed in their Copenhagen Accord homework, business leaders went to DC for clean energy, and the flame of competition traveled with zero emissions. Read on. Yale University came out with a poll recently showing that a majority of Americans support the U.S. in signing a treaty cutting CO2 emissions 90% by 2050. It also showed 71% supporting regulating greenhouse gases as pollutants. This is a good sign, and with a group of clean energy business executives on… -
My chat with President Obama: Don’t be stubborn about it -- or we will be!
5 Feb 2010 | 11:09 amLast night, I went to hear what President Obama had to say at a Gen44 event organized by the Democratic National Committee (note that I took time off from 1Sky to attend the event because 1Sky is a 501(c)(3) organization and we can’t -- and don’t -- do any electoral work). Anyway, I happened to catch President Obama on a rope line and decided on the fly to challenge him on the mythology of clean coal since our base has been so concerned about his repeated calls for clean coal (and nuclear and oil drilling) alongside real renewable energy solutions. My partner Louis captured the exchange… -
How is there global warming when we're getting so much snow?
3 Feb 2010 | 1:23 pmHave you ever heard that the best way to reach someone is through their personal network? This is the principle behind sharing blog posts and videos via email, Facebook, and other social networks. Clicking a button is an easy way to share with your friends, but a more effective way is directly face-to-face; of course, face-to-face doesn't have to mean "in their face." On Tuesday night, I joined much of America in watching the final season premiere of Lost. Thankfully I chose my roommates well last year, as evidenced by them wanting to watch with me. As we sat together in the living room, we… -
Guest blog: Why we need more climate education
2 Feb 2010 | 11:39 amBy Mike Bellamente, an independent contributor to the Portsmouth Herald in Portmsouth, New Hampshire. -- Luis I’ve just returned from a trip to Florida where, during dinner one night, I overheard a conversation about climate change at the next table. I’ll spare you the details on the entire exchange, in favor of one comment that struck me in particular: “Those lefty a**holes and their fake science are going to bring down the American economy with this whole global warming business.” Once I had successfully dislodged my dinner roll from my wind-pipe, I immediately thought to myself,…
