AAAS Meeting: Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time it will take are still unknown, according to Richard Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, Penn State. In the past, the Greenland ice sheet has grown when its [...]
I believe in Manmade Global Warming Which will destroy earth and heaven unless we pay more tax I believe in Al Gore Who patented the carbon dollar And the hockey-stick plot, born of Mann but work of Gaia It suffered under McIntyre and McKitrick Was crucified, disproven, and was buried On the third day It [...]
Climate Research News has featured press releases for some of the talks from the 12th to 16th February 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago, for example see here. Today, the BBC saw fit to publicise one of the talks by IPCC author Professor Chris Field, on the BBC News website in an article entitled, Global [...]
Prince Charles was accused of hypocrisy last night for using a private jet on an ‘environmental’ tour of South America. The prince will travel to the region next month in a visit costing an estimated £300,000 as part of his crusade against global warming. He will use a luxury airliner to transport himself, the Duchess [...]
AAAS meeting: Climate change may alter malaria patterns Temperature is an important factor in the spread of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, but researchers who look at average monthly or annual temperatures are not seeing the whole picture. Global climate change will affect daily temperature variations, which can have a more pronounced effect on parasite [...]
A new report says treaties aimed at reducing CO2 emissions are useless. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers report says we have to accept the world could change dramatically. It also says we should start planning our major infrastructure now to accommodate more extreme weather events and sea level rises. While not against attempts to reduce [...]
There was briefly a “part 3″ video, where Rutu Dave admits that she was “thrown in” to her IPCC job; her focus had been “trade policy”. To learn about climate, she read some books on a train. I’d be surprised if these two Rutu Dave videos (below) are still publicly available in six months. Early [...]
It wasn’t climate change which killed as many as 300 people in Victoria last weekend. It wasn’t arsonists. It was the unstoppable intensity of a bushfire, turbo-charged by huge quantities of ground fuel which had been allowed to accumulate over years of drought. It was the power of green ideology over government to oppose attempts [...]
The Guardian ran a lead story with the headline, ‘Apocalyptic climate predictions’ mislead the public, say experts Experts at Britain’s top climate research centre have launched a blistering attack on scientific colleagues and journalists who exaggerate the effects of global warming. In an article published on the Guardian website, Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate [...]
A commentary in the journal Nature (12/02/09) concludes with the following paragraph: “When scientists are silenced by colleagues, administrators, editors and funders who think that simply asking certain questions is inappropriate, the process begins to resemble religion rather than science. Under such a regime, we risk losing a generation of desperately needed research.” Unfortunately, it [...]
New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?
Available from Amazon UK here:
More from Booker himself here. (1)
Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Read the AIG News paper here. (1)
Global Warming Ate My Data
We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests.
The Register (3)
Climate Depot's Arctic Fact Sheet
Climate Depot Arctic Fact Sheet (for additional updates on the Arctic see new articles tagged Arctic) (0)
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