Thursday, August 19, 2010

A perfect setup on climate fails to persuade | OregonLive.com
Perhaps the most stunning evidence involves carbon dioxide itself. While recent evidence from Hawaii shows steadily rising CO2 in the atmosphere, older measurements show a peak in the 1940s that was higher than the level observed today. That says that natural processes are regulating CO2 in our atmosphere, a concept with strong theoretical backing.

We certainly don't know everything there is to know about climate, but we do know that Orwellian pronouncements about a catastrophe are dangerous propaganda disguised as science.
Australian Voters Looking Beyond the Economy - NYTimes.com
Climate change — the cause that swept Labor to power in a landslide victory under Mr. Rudd in 2007 — is rarely mentioned by the candidates, with neither party willing to commit itself to an emissions trading plan or a carbon tax.
[If the science is so settled, why do we still need to spend all this money?]: NCSU gets $1.8M to predict climate change, hurricanes - Triangle Business Journal
The National Science Foundation has provided $10 million over five years to use climate data collected by satellites, ground-based sensors and physics-based simulations to gain a better understanding of climate change.

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