Sports Illustrated sends clueless supermodels to soon-to-be-inundated Maldives for a blissfully ignorant photo shoot « Climate Progress

The whole friggin’ place is going under, most of it likely by the end of the century.

Flashback: Despite popular opinion and calls to action, the Maldives are not being overrun by sea level rise « Watts Up With That?

Dr. Don Easterbrook responded today to Andy Revkin with this email, cc:d to me

Andy,

I just read your article on sea level alarm in the Maldives. You may not be aware of a study there by Nils-Axel Morner, a Swedish sea level expert (former president of the INQUA Commission of Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution). Attached is photographic evidence by Morner that sea level in the Maldives is not rising relative to the coasts but has indeed fallen! Global sea level has been rising at a rate of about a foot per century but the Maldives are either rising or subject to a local sea level anomaly related to ocean currents and evaporation rates. Thus, the ‘poster child’ of Gore’s sea level alarm is invalid.

Don

The photographs he attached are interesting to say the least

India to have own panel on climate change: Jairam Ramesh

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) India would soon have its very own panel on climate change, union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced Thursday and added that the country could not depend only on reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am all for climate science but not for climate evangelism. I think people misused the IPCC report,” Ramesh told a news channel here.

Stressing that the IPCC’s weakness was that it didn’t do original research and derives assessments from published literature, the minister announced a climate change panel for India.

He said that IPCC has “had goof-ups on the glaciers, on the Amazon, on the snow peaks.” However, he added that the IPCC with a network of 200 scientists worldwide was “a responsible body”.

Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., to Lie in Heart of Snowstorm

Across the mid-Atlantic is where the worst of the storm will rage from Friday into Saturday. Over a foot of snow will bury northern Maryland and the I-81 corridor in northern Virginia.

Snow totals will be up to or around a foot in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

NASA Extends Cassini's Fly-bys of Saturn to Focus on Seasons & Climate Change

This NASA image of Saturn above shows a clear indication of an abruptly warmer polar cap and bright hot spot at Saturn's south pole. The warm south pole and hot spot (a sweltering 91 Kelvin -296 degrees Fahrenheit at the pole) may be unique in the solar system and a further exploration of the region is planned using instruments on the Cassini spacecraft.