Maine polar dip to raise $ for climate change work - Boston.com

PORTLAND, Maine—Bone-numbing temperatures won't be keeping people from taking an icy plunge in the frigid ocean waters off Maine in the name of global warming.
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More than two dozen people are expected.

No rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction in past 160 years, new research finds

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
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To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.

In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.

The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.

NC Media Watch: Greenies vs. Greenies

The view is more important than saving the planet from excess energy consumption.

Climategate Tweet of the Day

“I feel bad that Michael Crichton didn’t survive to see #ClimateGate. He’d have died laughing.” (original tweet)

If you are unfamiliar with author Michael Crichton’s views on global warming, here are some references for you...

Oceans love carbon dioxide, say sea scientists | CLIMATEGATE

Now the doomsayers are telling you that the oceans are turning acid from all that nasty carbon dioxide being absorbed into the seas. How frightening! Or perhaps not? According to oceanographers there’s as much chance of the planet’s seas turning acid as there is of Al Gore admitting he lied. So it seems we can trust the ecofascists even less now they’ve started pontificating about other scientific disciplines. In response to the latest environmental hype oceanographers have come out to tell us what the facts actually are and its not good reading for Mr. Gore!

It seems that sea life thrives on warmer water and increased carbon dioxide.

Report Predicts Offshore Wind Boom - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Offshore wind projects are considerably more costly to build than onshore wind farms

What If There Was No Greenhouse Effect? « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

As Dick Lindzen alluded to back in 1990, while everyone seems to understand that the greenhouse effect warms the Earth’s surface, few people are aware of the fact that weather processes greatly limit that warming. And one very real possibility is that the 1 deg. C direct warming effect of doubling our atmospheric CO2 concentration by late in this century will be mitigated by the cooling effects of weather to a value closer to 0.5 deg. C or so (about 1 deg. F.) This is much less than is being predicted by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or by NASA’s James Hansen, who believe that weather changes will amplify, rather than reduce, that warming.