Tuesday, February 09, 2010

- Bishop Hill blog - Pick a paragraph
So by the end of the first sentence, none of the cited papers that I can lay my hands on support the text as written, namely that "Production of rice, maize and wheat in the past few decades has declined in many parts of Asia".
Utah Legislature: House formally questions global warming | Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — With most Democrats voting no, the Utah House approved a resolution Tuesday that questions global warming while asking the federal government not to proceed with "cap-and-trade" legislation or CO2 regulation.

Sponsor Rep. Kerry Gibson, R-Ogden, a dairy farmer, agreed to have his HJR12 amended to take out some inflammatory wording, like calling global warming and those who advocate it guilty of "tricks," and a "conspiracy" and "flawed" research.
Look closer at carbon dioxide, scientist urges | Deseret News
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which means it blocks the very form of energy the Earth uses to cool itself. Even if it's not clear yet how much temperatures might rise, we know they will rise if there's too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, says Volk.
dT/dt – AGW DDT « Musings from the Chiefio
This one is ‘a keeper’, IMHO, as it tells you what you really want to know: How are temperatures changing over time for each individual thermometer record compared only to itself?

And the answer is: Not much at all. Unless you change a lot of the instruments around in a block or have a poorly sited one …
Die Klimazwiebel: Pachauri and I.P.C.C. put into context by NYT
What are the political implications of the campaign against the I.P.C.C.? And why right now? The New York Times raises these questions more or less explicitly; for European readers it might be important to know that skeptics in the U.S. are mostly identified with the right wing populists.
Are the skeptics in Sweden big fans of Sarah Palin?

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