World Climate Report » The Ups and Downs of Methane

...This behavior is quite perplexing. And while we are not sure what processes are behind it, we do know one thing for certain—the slow growth of methane concentrations is an extremely cold bucket of water dumped on the overheated claims that global warming is leading to a thawing of the Arctic permafrost and the release of untold mega-quantities of methane (which, of course, will lead to more warming, more thawing, more methane, etc., and, of course, to runaway catastrophe).

Condon lecture looks at climate change

CORVALLIS - Susan Solomon, an atmospheric chemist, Antarctic researcher and expert on climate change, will present the 2009 Thomas Condon Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is designed for a non-specialist audience. It is titled "A Tale For Our Times: Something for Everyone About Climate Change and the Reasons for Climate Gridlock."

[Flashback: Alarmist Susan Solomon compares the bubbles in your Pepsi to "nuclear waste"]

“We have to think about it much more like nuclear waste than, like say, smog or acid rain,” explains one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Solomon is leading the research team. She adds, “What we’re doing with carbon dioxide is forever.”

[Speaking of "forever"]: C3: The Liberal Attack On Science: The IPCC Fabrication of Atmospheric CO2 'Residency Time'

They did this despite the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies (and corroborating empirical measurements) finding that CO2 in the atmosphere remained there a short time.