Tag Archives: global warming

merchants of doubt

Posted on 2015/12/16 by arnulfo

A skeptic would find it interesting that many of the players involved in misleading the public about the dangers of tobacco smoke have been recruited by the anti-AGW camp (Dr. Richard Lindzen being one of them). They would also find … Continue reading →

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a conspiracy of liberals

Posted on 2015/06/05 by arnulfo

We may have just about 30 years left until the world’s carbon budget for 2 degrees C warming is exceeded unless emissions drop by 80% from current levels. In fact 4 C might be reached by 2070. The Intergovernmental Panel … Continue reading →

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Climate change opinion

Posted on 2015/05/16 by arnulfo

The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of – and Making Progress In – The American Culture War of Fact When we reflect on controversial policy positions—“the death penalty doesn’t deter murder”; “climate change is a natural, cyclical … Continue reading →

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global average temperatures

Posted on 2015/05/12 by arnulfo

Wednesday, May 14, 2014  USHCN, adjustments, averages, getting it right. There has been quite a kerfuffle about USHCN adjustments. There was a WUWT post on reasons for the spike, a recalc at Steven Goddard’s site, and more here and here. … Continue reading →

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The Pause

Posted on 2015/05/10 by arnulfo

You can’t deny global warming after seeing this graph By Ezra Klein July 9, 2013 http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.95466a0b743d88fdf27be4b6df8e2945.en.html#_=1431271246855&dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=ezraklein&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1998. But forget individual years. That data is noisy. A single year can see … Continue reading →

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Climategate

Posted on 2015/05/08 by arnulfo

The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (also known as “Climategate”)[2][3] began in November 2009 with the hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) by an external attacker.[4][5] Several weeks before … Continue reading →

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How Humans Think about Global Warming

Posted on 2015/05/06 by arnulfo

The Psychology of Climate Change The Science and Scholarship of How Humans Think and Feel about Global Warming A wealth of scholarly and scientific studies finds that fear-based appeals around climate change actually result in increased climate skepticism and fatalism … Continue reading →

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Dr. Aiguo Dai

Posted on 2015/05/04 by arnulfo

Dr. Aiguo Dai (戴爱国), Associate Professor Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences University at Albany, SUNY Dai, A., 2011: Drought under global warming: A review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, DOI: 10.1002/wcc.81. (News: UCAR, ScienceDaily, SciAmerican, NYTimes, MSNBC, Reuters, XinhuaNet, People’sDaily). … Continue reading →

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The Resilient Earth

Posted on 2015/05/03 by arnulfo

CO2 for the last 15 or so million of years (with more certainty 800,000 years): ~ 285 ppm CO2 for last reading in March 2015: 401 ppm: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ The trend is that this pattern (of increasing CO2) has accelerated in the … Continue reading →

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The effects of global warming

Posted on 2015/05/02 by arnulfo

The effects of global warming are the environmental and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases. There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and that human activities are the primary driver.[1] Many … Continue reading →

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