Sunday, March 14, 2010

TBR.cc: BREAKING NEWS: Top Aussie climate scientist goes feral on skeptics and fellow scientists
During the hour long media briefing, Lowe

* ridiculed the scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider, saying money would be better spent by climate scientists
* argued that for propaganda purposes the media should hype-up individual weather events - such as floods in Mozambique - as proof of climate change
* claimed Hurricane Katrina was clearly caused by climate change
* claimed a conspiracy of white, Anglo Celtic elderly males was behind the skeptic movement
* with NZ government social scientist Karen Cronin advocated researching how to foment enough anger in the public that governments who refused to take climate action could be "pushed out of the way" in a political upheaval
Climate science stung by doubt | tennessean.com | The Tennessean
Neither the substance of the stolen university e-mails nor the errors in the report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change refute decades of scientific research pointing to the proliferation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by cars, factories and power plants.
BBC News - Kumi Naidoo on climate change denial 'deja vu'
The new head of Greenpeace Kumi Naidoo on the risks of man-made climate change denial.

Mr Naidoo told Andrew Marr that those who picked up on mistakes in recent reports by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were only dealing with "0.01%" of the argument.
Aquatic “Dead Zones” Contributing to Climate Change - insciences
Cambridge, Md.– The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived “dead zones” along the world’s coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than just local waters. In the March 12 edition of the journal Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science oceanographer Dr. Lou Codispoti explains that the increased amounts of nitrous oxide (N2O) produced in low-oxygen (hypoxic) waters can elevate concentrations in the atmosphere, further exacerbating the impacts of global warming, and contributing to ozone “holes” that cause an increase in our exposure to harmful UV radiation. 
BBC News - Ian McEwan's climate 'boot room'
[McEwan talks about spending a week in the Arctic with a bunch of artists who believed in the global warming hoax.  Their ship was frozen into the ice.]

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