Warmer and drier - Local News - News - General - The Northern Argus

An Arctic ice-free summer would mean the melting of the Greenland ice sheet which in turn would precipitate catastrophic sea level rises.

Such evidence would convince the most dogged sceptic, but at that stage, Colin Endean [a Climate Change Messenger for the Al Gore Climate Project] points out, it will be too late.

So when we in Clare sweat in record heat waves, or fret at unpredictable rainfall patterns or notice, like Brother John May, the disappearance of once reliable water sources, are we simply seeing aspects of a regular cycle or are these phenomena Clare’s small glimpse of a vast and dangerous pattern?

Researchers like Cecil Camelleri, Peter Leske and Peter Hayman, among many others, are trying to work that out.

Jessica A. Knoblauch: Climate change skeptics continue to muddy global warming debate — Plenty Magazine

Despite overwhelming evidence that global warming and its causes are real, naysayers are out there, as always is the case with any contentious issue. But what’s unique and alarming about the global warming debate is that journalists are actually spreading the views of these “climate skeptics” without actually taking a look at the facts.

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