Acidified landscape around ocean vents [allegedly] foretells grim future for coral reefs | Environment | The Observer

"The sea floor is often very colourful. There are corals, pink algae and sea urchins. But I have found that these are wiped out when the water becomes more acidic and are replaced by sea grasses and foreign, invasive algae.

Flashback: Jennifer Marohasy: Ocean Acidification: Photographs from Bob Halstead and a Note from Floor Anthoni

The shallows near Dobu Island off Papua and New Guinea have active underwater fumaroles pumping out virtually pure CO2. The sea grass is extraordinarily lush and healthy and there is very healthy coral reef a few metres away.

Attacks on climate change research are damaging the public's faith in science | Science | The Observer

Oceanographer James McCarthy, the AAAS's president-elect, said that after initial successes in tripping up the IPCC, sceptics will redouble their efforts to highlight other errors.

Let the Met Office shine on | editorial | Comment is free | The Observer

There's a big difference between the weather and the climate. And the Met Office is good at predicting both
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Nobody is better than the Met Office at telling you what will happen in your back garden in the next three days, or better qualified to predict the kind of climate we can expect in a decade, or a century. They might sometimes make mistakes, but we should still look to them for guidance and remember that the alternative is looking at the sky in ignorance.

The Media « the Air Vent

So let me reply to this last little sentence — “Lost in the blogging world is any sense of proportion, or the idea that science is built on cumulative work in many fields, the scientists say.”

Lost in the media world is any sense of understanding, or any ability to critically or objectively reason about an argument which goes against their political cause. Lost is the understanding which would make a good reporter figure out that you simply cannot throw away over half your data to make a conclusion. And finally, lost is the human race which is too damned stupid and lazy to see the scam right in front of their faces.