Monday, September 06, 2010

The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review – July 2010 - University of East Anglia (UEA)
University of East Anglia’s Response
1. The University is indebted to Sir Muir Russell and his team for conducting a comprehensive, thoughtful and challenging Review into the allegations which have been made against the University’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) following the publication of a large number of emails and other material, which are believed to have been obtained illegally from a back-up server in CRU.
How Davis Guggenheim's Documentary 'Waiting for “Superman”' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate -- New York Magazine
The Harlem-based educator and activist Geoffrey Canada first met the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim in 2008, when Canada was in Los Angeles raising money for the Children’s Defense Fund, which he chairs.
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Then Guggenheim mentioned another film he’d made—An Inconvenient Truth—and Canada snapped to attention. “I had absolutely seen it,” Canada recalls, “and I was stunned because it was so powerful that my wife told me we couldn’t burn incandescent bulbs anymore. She didn’t become a zealot; she just realized that [climate change] was serious and we have to do something.”
World Environment News - Paris Metro Body Heat To Help Warm Building - Planet Ark
The calories emitted by passengers, around 100 watts per person, combined with the heat from trains moving along tracks and the underground location of the metro mean that corridor temperatures are 14-20 degrees Celsius all year around.
Green Ideals Melt In Heat Of Summer | EarthTechling
A small survey conducted in August by Honeywell, a diversified technology and manufacturing company, found that “nearly two thirds of American consumers chose comfort over cost savings and conserving energy when temperatures spiked.”
Climate Change and Precipitation – Another IPCC And Climate Science Failure.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Focus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is almost exclusively on temperature, particularly on warming. That alone should condemn their work because different weather has different implications for different activities and in most cases temperature is of little concern.

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