Saturday, November 28, 2009

[An insane person weighs in]: Warming will 'wipe out billions' - Scotsman.com News
MOST of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientists has warned.
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Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet's population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.
[But wouldn't this be great for polar bears, people in low-lying coastal areas, people with kidney stones, etc?]: Gulf stream collapse could be like a disaster movie | Environment | The Observer
Scientists predict an ice age could be provoked in a matter of months
Op-Ed Contributor - Denmark in the Wind - NYTimes.com
“You’re the ones who will have to live with the effects of climate change,” we caution our youngest as he consumes yet another burger. As a 12-year-old, he has yet to comprehend that at some point he may have to choose between beef and rain forests, plane journeys or glaciers, rationing or perishing.
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I haven’t the heart to mention the plagues of malaria mosquitoes, the risks of contracting West Nile virus and cholera.
News Release In The Sunday Times By Jonathan Leake – Climate Change Data dumped « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
This is an absurd claim that the new data is “value-added”.
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The claim in the article that this elimination of the data up to the 1980s, however, suggests that raw data since that time period is available. This data needs to be independently scrutinized (i.e. not by GISS or NCDC) and each step of their “quality control” and “homogenization” quantitatively assessed.

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