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“Humanity is altering Earth’s life support system …”

December 3rd, 2013 · Comments Off on “Humanity is altering Earth’s life support system …”

This video — transcript after the fold — calmly reviews with both data visualization and a rather disconcerting calm narration how “humanity is altering Earth’s life support system”. The clock is ticking … Note:  For an interesting approach to visualization, see the Carbon Atlas.

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Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · video

Some Sanity amid the Commonwealth’s Insanity

February 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

At times, the expression ‘the inmates have taken over the asylum’ seems all too relevant to the governance process and is sadly too true when it comes to the Commonwealth of Virignia. Yesterday, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli declared that his “belief” system evidently trumps science as he committed the Commonwealth and its citizens’ taxes to […]

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Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · virginia

Making reporters understand errors in context …

February 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on Making reporters understand errors in context …

One of America’s top meteorologists, Jeff Masters, and Dr Joe Romm, author of one of the most important books re climate change and politics, held a press teleconference focused on extreme weather, the recent (DC area) snowstorms, and climate science. The audio makes for, sadly, too interesting listening as so many of the reporters seemed […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · journalism

Inhofian Reporting: Peerless work?

December 21st, 2007 · 29 Comments

The Minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Commitee (read James Inhofe (R-Exxon)) has just released a “report”: 0ver 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007.  As a taxpayer, to start with, I am outraged that my taxes are used to support such truthiness and distortions. As a human being, […]

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Tags: Global Warming · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · politics · skeptic

Artic ice melting … melting … melting … gone?

April 30th, 2007 · 42 Comments

On 1 May 2007, the online edition of Geophysical Research Letters will publish a study by a combined team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).  This study report will show, in yet another way, how the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]

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Tags: Global Warming · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change