Arguments with climate change deniers

For the sake of organization, here is a list of some of the disagreements that have arisen on this blog between those that accept the scientific consensus that climate change is real, caused by human activity, and dangerous and those who do not. Given that a lot of the deniers seem to flit from blog to blog, leaving misleading comments, cataloging some rebuttals to them seems worthwhile.

S.F., U.N. partner on global warming [fraud] center

San Francisco's Hunters Point Shipyard - so toxic it's listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a Superfund site - will be the future home of a U.N.-sponsored think tank to study solutions to global warming and other environmental crises plaguing the planet.

Due to open in 2012, the facility is envisioned by Mayor Gavin Newsom's administration as the centerpiece of a new green technology campus, akin to Mission Bay serving as a biotech hub.

The 80,000-square-foot United Nations Global Compact Center will include office space for academics and scientists, an incubator to foster green tech start-ups, and a conference center.

The center is expected to cost $20 million.

Global Warming Alert: Coldest July in Louisville history

Just when you thought it was safe to vote in favor of the Cap & Trade bill now pending in the Senate, our planet appears to be adjusting its temperature downward. According to the local office of the National Weather Service, this month has been the coldest July on record here in Louisville. Throughout the entire month of July, Louisville has not recorded a high temperature of 90-degree or above. The National Weather Service’s temperature records go back to 1873.