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climate and climate change news and views

2006-06-29

quick updates

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I haven't posted much lately, I know. I don't know about you, but I've been overwhelmed with the various climate-related news, m...
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2006-05-22

Shermer finally signs on

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Acclaimed skeptic Michael Shermer, head of the Skeptic Society among other things, has a recent column in Scientific American in which he ad...
2006-04-26

A Bill Gray sighting

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Last hurricane season, I blogged a few times about Bill Gray, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University. For those of you out of...
2006-04-23

"In fact, let's call it science fiction," says Orrin Hatch

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In an interview with Salt Lake City Tribune, Senator Orrin Hatch gives his opinion of climate change [ LINK ]. The article is fairly timid,...
2006-04-19

Alarmists! Alarmists!

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I haven't posted a response to Richard Lindzen's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal [ LINK ]. The main reason is that I'm really n...
2006-04-06

NOAA, USGS scientists struggle to inform public

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In another article about the current USA administration putting pressure on scientists to avoid talking publicly about the impact of global ...
2006-03-22

starving walruses

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The Inuit, the natives of high northern latitudes, have noticed climate change for years, and it is only getting worse [ LINK ]. A lot of po...
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2006-03-13

Un-installing Norton anti-environment

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Hee hee.... that's a good headline, IMHO. Anyway, Gale Norton resigned, and I thought it should be publicized: [ LINK ]
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One more week, ten fewer species

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This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to do the Timothy Treadwell thing , i.e., escape into the wilderness and turn semi-feral. Of co...
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2006-03-10

Peter Barrett discusses the insidious threat of GHG

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Here's the link: [ LINK ]
2006-02-17

more doom and gloom

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Independent Online Edition > Jim Hansen spreads the word that the world will actually end in ice . Somebody inform Robert Frost * .
2006-02-14

Someday the Sun Will Go Out and the World Will End (but Don't Tell Anyone) - New York Times

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I even kept the headline from a NYTimes.com commentary by Dennis Overbye for today's post, I hope he doesn't mind [ LINK ]. The comm...
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2006-02-13

Australia copies everything the USA does

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Now the aussies are up to it. Well, at least there are some stories being spread about climate scientists (at CSIRO) being censored by the g...
2006-02-11

this story got much more play than I thought it would

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Yet another WaPo article about Jim Hansen and censorship in climate science, [ LINK ]. That guy who had been making trouble at NASA, the 24-...
2006-02-09

roundup time

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I was considering writing a longer post than normal about how badly the current administration has treated science. It's a topic that ke...
2006-02-06

UW scientists subtract stratosphere, find global warming

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There's a study in Nature about using microwave measurements of temperature in the atmosphere to reconcile the apparent discrepancy betw...
2006-02-03

maybe now we'll grow an exoskeleton

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There's an interesting review in National Geographic by James Owen [ LINK ] about evidence that early human species probably evolved alo...
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2006-01-30

it's the climate, stupid

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Tony Blair included a forward to a UK Met Office report on climate change [ LINK ]. It sounds like the report is the UK's own personal I...

Lovelock has a new book

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Thanks to Renee for pointing out Jame Lovelock's latest essay to promote his new book [ LINK ]. Apparently instead of angering the earth...
2006-01-29

slick willy v. chilly willy?

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Bill Clinton is talking about climate change; he says it is the world's biggest problem [ LINK ]. Clinton's VP, and former (only for...
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