Sunday, February 14, 2010

U.N. climate panel admits Dutch sea level flaw | Reuters
"The sea level statistic was used for background information only, and the updated information remains consistent with the overall conclusions," the IPCC note dated February 12 said.
 Sign Petition to Strip Al Gore and The UN IPCC of Their Nobel Prize
Recently, it was discovered that the UN IPCC 2007 Report, the work for which the IPCC received its half of the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize, contained false information regarding the risk of glacier melt, species extinction, sea-level rise
and natural disaster in an effort to frighten the public and goad politicians into taking action. By signing this petition,
you are sending a clear message that you wish for Al Gore and the UN IPCC to be stripped of their 2007 award.
There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Valentine's Day and the Scientific Method
Best line: "In science you can't publish results you know are wrong - and you can't withhold them because they're not the ones you wanted."
Letter - Climate Change "Facts" - NYTimes.com
In the last 50 years the world ocean has accumulated 22 times as much heat as has the atmosphere (data provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce). It is this repository of heat — through processes like evaporation and ocean overturning — that drives the changes in weather we are experiencing: heavier precipitation events, sequences of large storms, bitter cold spells and prolonged droughts in some regions.
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Paul R. Epstein
Boston, Feb. 9, 2010

The writer, a doctor, is associate director at the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School.
Brazil to Build Giant Amazon Observatory to Study Climate Change
SAO PAULO – Brazil is set to build a 320-meter (1,049-foot) tower deep in the jungle that will operate as an atmospheric observatory to study climate change in the Amazon region and its relation to global warming, the local press reported Saturday.

The project, which has the cooperation of the German government, plans to provide more trustworthy estimates on the greenhouse effect based on climate in the tropical jungle over the next 30 years, according to reports from Manaus, capital of the northern state of Amazonas, published in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo.

The tower, with an investment of 24 million reais (some $12.9 million), is scheduled to begin operations by the end of 2011.

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