A Few Things Ill Considered

A layman's take on the science of Global Warming featuring a guide on How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

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Dramatic and Emphatic National Academies Statement

Michael Tobis has been stamping his feet quite a bit since a few days ago about the recent publication of a new Joint Statement of the National Academies [PDF] of all the G8 countries.

Why? Because it is both emphatic in nature and invisible to the press. He highlights these four points:
  • "Our present energy course is not sustainable."
  • "Responding to this demand while minimizing further climate change will need all the determination and ingenuity we can muster."
  • "The problem is not yet insoluble but becomes more difficult with each passing day."
  • "G8 countries bear a special responsibility for the current high level of energy consumption and the associated climate change. Newly industrialized countries will share this responsibility in the future."
It is hard not to see it as an urgent call to action (these are scientists, remember) so Tobis wonders out loud why no one seems to be talking about it. Good question.

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Monbiot: Response to Alexander Cockburn's articles

George Monbiot has another article in response to Alexander Cockburn's recent articles attacking the theory of anthropogenic global warming on Counter Punch and The Nation. It is a good shredding of the usual "corruption" charges leveled at the entire field of working climatologists.

ZMag has a nice one-stop shop for all the relevant links.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

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Climate Response Blog

For anyone interested in some live blogging on the climate change issue or anyone in the London scene, there was this comment from Rohit Bhargava at the Climate Response Blog.

You might also be interested in a live blog happening around now around the Corporate Climate Response event in london. The Climate Response Blog is an ongoing real time conversation from an event that is part of the Green Power conferences. Throughout the day we are blogging, posting video interviews, and updating a photo gallery of participants and conversations.

They'd love your comments on this effort.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

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More Bunk from Beck

(no, this is not about me!)

Over at Real Climate they have a debunking of another whooper from E. G. Beck. Just as he did with his ludicrous CO2 reconstruction, Beck tries to take science forward by putting the gears in reverse (is this really what a modern day Galileo would do?).

But even better than that, he apparently has to resort to good old fashioned fraud too. Read the details.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

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Another Week of GW News, May 27, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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Typically Low Key Plug

My first novel Water was published May, 2007.

An

Introduction

to the novel is available, along with the

Unpublished Foreword

and the

Launch Talk.

An overview of my writing is available

here.

<regards>

-het

PS. You can access the previous postings of this series here


"You can lie to me and you can lie to yourself, but you can't lie to mother nature." -Khalihari

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