Friday, June 04, 2010

World Climate Report » Leave it to Beavers
So from Yellowstone Park to Switzerland to Korea, we find good news for critters that don’t like periods of drought. As noted repeatedly, the build-up of greenhouses should warm the Earth as well as increase precipitation. So far, we seem to be witnessing fewer droughts and greater streamflow.
Report: Rising Sea Levels Will Have Dire Impact On Bay Area Economy - KCBS
Financial losses from climate change will be significant unless key infrastructure is reinforced, said the director of the National Ocean Economics Program, Judith Kildow.

“San Francisco aiport is ground zero. Those runways are going to be under water in the not too distant future,” she said.
NASA Charged in New Climate Fakery: Greenhouse Gas Data Bogus by John O'Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists
Shock new evidence of a NASA scientist faking a fundamental greenhouse gas equation shames beleaguered space administration in new global warming fraud scandal.

Caught in the heat are NASA's Dr. Judith Curry and a junk science equation by the space agency’s Dr. Gavin Schmidt creating disarray over a contentious Earth energy graph.
Global Temperature Is Warmest on Record, NASA’s Hansen Says: Reality Check | The SPPI Blog
Hansen is a man on a mission to save the planet and this includes civil disobedience. As Michael Goldfarb described it “Recently, but presumably still in his capacity as a private citizen and defender of the Earth, Hansen wrote an op-ed for the Guardian in which he described coal-fired power plants as “factories of death.” This on the heels of testifying in a British court on behalf of six Greenpeace activists on trial for causing $60,000 in criminal damage to a coal-fired power station in England.” Could this civil disobedience carry over to the data?

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