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Uh oh. Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat, Study Says. The ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has continued to retreat rapidly, declining 26 percent since 2000, scientists say in a new report. Yet the authors of the study, to be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the ...
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank attended a meeting of the Senate environment committee this week, and describes Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) as “the last flat-earther:” Washington Sketch: A hostile climate for Sen. Inhofe the warming skeptic. “Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate change is real; humans have ...
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video deals with recent sea ice observations, both from satellites and ground observation teams, showing that the area of melting in the northern polar cap is expanding dramatically. [Video]
Associated Press writer H. Josef Hebert has an interesting piece about the importance of nuclear power in the debate over global warming, not just as a technical means to generate power without CO2 emissions, but as a political bargaining chip. The industry’s long-standing campaign to rebrand itself as green ...
The Associated Press commissioned a review of years of temperature data by independent statisticians, and they’ve definitively refuted the often-repeated canard that the temperature of the Earth is decreasing: Statistics experts reject global cooling claims. The statisticians, reviewing two sets of temperature data, found no trend of falling temperatures ...
Yesterday, the leaders of 18 major American scientific organizations — some of the most reputable and respected organizations in the world — sent the following letter to the US Senate, strongly urging Senators to address the issue of human-caused climate change and offering their help to become better informed. ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Carbon Dioxide
Science Daily has more details on the alarming Caltech study we noted earlier this week, led by Aradhna Tripati: Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report. “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Carbon Dioxide, Caltech
A new study by Caltech scientists led by geochemist Aradhna Tripati shows that there hasn’t been this much carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere for at least 15 Million Years. “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today and were sustained at those ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Carbon Dioxide, Caltech
Here’s Peter Sinclair’s video on the scientific evidence showing that the decline in the Arctic icecap is very real, is not due to “natural causes,” and is not reversing (as several people tried to argue in recent LGF threads on climate change). On the contrary, in the past two years ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Arctic Ice, Arctic Ocean
Uh oh. Arctic ice to vanish in summer. LONDON, England (CNN) — New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be “largely ice free” during summer within a decade. The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Arctic Ice, Arctic Ocean
Time for an update on one of the latest claims by climate change deniers — that the “hockey stick” graph demonstrating dramatic global warming has been shown to be a “lie.” Well, it turns out that there was some dishonesty involved here, but it wasn’t on the side of the ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Disinformation, Hockey Stick
Last Saturday in a thread about climate change, I wrote: Again, I’m struck by the similarity between the techniques of global warming deniers and creationists; they both use cherry-picked data, they both make outrageous claims couched in pseudo-scientific language that sounds convincing to gullible people, they both compile lists ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Climate Change, Global Warming, Propaganda
Peter Sinclair’s new video is a scathing exposé of the right wing’s deliberate distortion of a statement by climate modeler Mojib Latif — led by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and George Will. [Video]
Climate Change, Global Warming, Mojib Latif, Peter Sinclair, Video, Glenn Beck
In every LGF thread related to climate change, people show up to float the absurd claim that CO2 is a good thing. We need more of it, not less. Those tricksy scientists are just lying to you again. You know how they are. You can’t trust 'em. Except that the ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Dioxide, Peter Sinclair, Video
Last week we suddenly saw a barrage of articles about the climate change “hockey stick” graph, with absurdly overheated headlines like this one at Britain’s Telegraph: How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie. Not just a lie, but a MASSIVE lie. Wow. That sounds really bad. ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Disinformation
Peter Sinclair has another excellent “remixed” video (an improved version of an earlier release) on what scientists know about rising sea levels — and the deliberate misrepresentations being promoted by the anti-AGW crowd. [Video]
Climate Change, Global Warming, Peter Sinclair, Sea Levels, Video
Rep. James Inhofe (R-OK), a far right politician with ties to the Dominionist movement, on record comparing environmentalists to the Third Reich and the EPA to the Gestapo, is organizing a junket of climate change deniers to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December: Inhofe: I’m Bringing ...
Denmark, GOP, James Inhofe, Religious Right, AGW, Science, Global Warming, Climate Change
Denmark’s Minister of Climate and Energy, Connie Hedegaard, is considered a “conservative” in that country — and she’s quoted in the New York Times with an interesting remark that makes me wonder if she’s been reading Little Green Footballs (OK, not really — but I can dream, can’t I?): Danish ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Religious Right, Disinformation, GOP
New research into ancient CO2 levels is confirming climate models, and linking declines in CO2 to Antarctic ice cap formation. SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A team of scientists studying rock samples in Africa has shown a strong link between falling carbon dioxide levels and the formation of Antarctic ice sheets ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Antarctica, Ice Shelf
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair has been remixing some of his earlier videos debunking the talking points of climate change deniers, to improve the audio and video. This one deals with the odd, easily refuted, yet endlessly repeated talking point (showing up often in LGF climate change threads) that the planet Mars ...
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair has an excellent new video debunking one of the most prevalent falsehoods promoted by a huge number of climate change skeptics, a talking point that has shown up in every LGF thread about climate change: that global warming stopped sometime in the last decade. Note that even ...
Video, Peter Sinclair, Science, Global Warming, Climate Change
This is a clear and well-designed presentation on the current state of the scientific debate on climate change, giving equal time to skeptics’ ideas. Some of the popular politically driven distortions are dealt with; for example, in the third video he takes Penn and Teller to task for spreading the ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Science, AGW, Penn and Teller, Video
A fascinating piece by science writer Carl Zimmer looks at the evidence that climate change is forcing surprisingly rapid evolutionary changes in some species of plants and animals: First Comes Global Warming, Then An Evolutionary Explosion. In 1997, Arthur Weis found himself with an extra bucket of seeds. Weis, ...
Evolution, Science, Natural Selection, Biology, Carl Zimmer, Climate Change, Global Warming
I’ve noticed that in the LGF debate over climate change, there are certain talking points and memes that keep being brought up over and over. In my attempts to find a way between the exaggerated alarmism of many on the pro-AGW side and the deliberate obfuscation of many on the ...
A few weeks ago there was a flurry of blogosphere activity about a report by an EPA analyst named Alan Carlin that questioned the science of climate change. Supposedly, Carlin’s report was “suppressed” because it voiced politically incorrect opinions. You may have seen some of these blog posts; Fox News ...
Climate Change, Global Warming, Anthony Watts, Peter Sinclair, Alan Carlin, AGW