Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response

Creator: New York City Panel on Climate Change
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Gore: World To End, Fox News To Blame | NewsBusters.org

Gore scores bonus scare-mongering points by his mention of how the same supposed hate-filled tactics of which he accuses his opponents "in times past . . . has proved to be a potent drug in the veins of the body politic." Wonder which times, which bodies politic Al has in mind?

The Hockey Schtick: Dr. Richard Lindzen's Talk at Fermilab

[Dr. Richard Lindzen's recent talk at Fermilab says the theory of intelligent design sounds rigorous in comparison to the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming]

1989 NYT: No Warming In US Since 1895 | Sweetness & Light

Dr. Hansen of NASA said today that he had ”no quarrel” with the findings in the new study. He noted that the United States covered only 1.5 percent of Earth. ”If you have only one degree warming on a global average, how much do you get at random” when taking measurements in such a relatively small area, he asked rhetorically.

”We are just arguing now about whether the global warming effect is large enough to see,” he added. ”It is not suprising [sic] we are not seeing it in a region that covers only 1.5 percent of the globe.”

Dr. Hansen said there were several ways to look at the temperature readings for the United States, including as a ‘’statistical fluke.”

Possibililty [sic] of Countereffects

Another possibility, he said, was that there were special conditions in the United States that would tend to offset a warming trend. For example, industrial activity produces dust and other solid particles that help form liquid droplets in the atmosphere. These droplets reflect radiation away from Earth and thus have a cooling influence.

79-min Video | Will It Cost the Earth to Save the Planet?

[by Amory Lovins, Partha Dasgupta, John Schellnhuber] Some economists argue that taking steps now to mitigate this problem is likely to drive up energy costs and result in reduced economic growth. They suggest that in the interests of economic equality - and particularly to foster economic growth in developing countries - it is better to let growth happen as quickly as possible and rely on future increased technological capacities to solve the problem.