Wednesday, January 19, 2011

- Bishop Hill blog - The Royal Society and sea level
Oops. As John Shade notes, it woud be instructive to have an annual review of the Royal Society's paper in the light of new data.
Latest From James Hansen: North Pole Ice Free “In A Couple Of Decades” | hauntingthelibrary
Dr Hansen didn’t cite any peer-reviewed studies in support of this assertion, and only took questions from children, saying: “I want to hear questions from the young, not the old”.
The Carbon Sense Coalition » Carbon Dioxide is NOT a Pollutant
I keep hearing about the “pollutant CO2,” or about “poisoning the atmosphere” with CO2, or about minimizing our “carbon footprint.” This brings to mind another Orwellian pronouncement that is worth pondering: “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

CO2 is not a pollutant and it is not a poison and we should not corrupt the English language by depriving “pollutant” and “poison” of their original meaning.

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