Al Fin: Concealed Love Affair Between Sea Life and CO2

Oceans have been exposed to much higher levels of CO2 in the past than humans could possibly produce from fossil fuels. Ocean life loves CO2. Photosynthetic algae blossoms in the presence of higher CO2, providing fodder for the rest of the ocean's food chain. As mentioned above, sea sponges convert half their weight in CO2 per day to nutrient-rich excretia -- feeding much of the rest of the coral reef in the process. And now that scientists are finally admitting that higher dissolved levels of CO2 actually drive formation of sea shell in many sea creatures, the public no longer has an excuse for its absurd "ocean acidification mania and panic!".

Al Fin: [Link roundup] ClimateGate Ascendant! New Media 1 Old Media 0

Despite the best efforts of old mainstream media to suppress the ClimateGate story of collusion, obfuscation, intimidation, and censorship at the East Anglia CRU, new media has succeeded in building on the story until it has finally broken through into the daylight.

Heavy Snows in Europe, Western Canada :: First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine

Kiltarlity, Scotland, UK - European ski resorts across the Alps, Dolomites and Pyrenees report big and on-going snowfalls as record and near-record snows continue across parts of the American and Canadian West.

The AP Gets Into Social Media With Climate Change Conference Coverage - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY

The Facebook fan page, called The Climate Pool, will bring the news agencies together in an unprecedented collaboration to spark a global conversation about climate issues. The purpose of the Facebook hub (http://www.facebook.com/TheClimatePool) will be to engage readers in direct communication with the world-class journalists covering the U.N. conference Dec 7-18.

Munk Debates: [Climate realists win again]

Yet the audience, which began the night split 61 to 39 per cent in favour of the proposition, ended it voting 56 to 44 per cent in favour - a slide of five points toward the underperforming rhetoriticians arguing on behalf of denial and delay.But the debate wan't a bad idea because the good guys "lost." It was a bad idea because merely taking to the stage reinforces the notion that there IS a debate about climate change.

Clean Break » Blog Archive » Munk debate on climate change gets it wrong

At debate was the following statement: “Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response.”

To start, let me just echo Elizabeth May by saying the fact we’re even having this debate just days before Copenhagen is a sad, sad thing. “We should be arguing how do we reach the targets, not if we should do it,” said May in her opening comments. “The science since 1988, in case anybody hasn’t heard, has only gotten stronger.” Unfortunately, this debate served only as another forum for Lomborg and Lawson to promote themselves and create confusion around an issue scientists are quite clear on.