Thursday, April 28, 2011

Perceptive Article On The Sad State Of Research Funding By Toby N. Carlson | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
With respect to NSF funding in climate science, the current focus on funding multi-decadal climate predictions by the NSF fits with his characterization that they ”are bureaucracies that promote top-down science to suit political and administrative ends“.
On Birth Certificates, Climate Risk and an Inconvenient Mind - NYTimes.com
It’s easy to forget that there’s been plenty of climate denial to go around. It took a decade for those seeking a rising price on carbon dioxide emissions as a means to transform American and global energy norms to realize that a price sufficient to drive the change was a political impossibility.
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10:11 a.m. | Updated For much more on the behavioral factors that shape the human struggle over climate policy, I encourage you to explore “Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life,” a new book by Kari Marie Norgaard, a sociologist who has just moved from Whitman College to the University of Oregon.
Environmental shock and awe - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The declining support for the radical Green climate change agenda validates the wisdom of Lincoln’s observation. More and more Australians are waking up to the alarmist fraud that is climate change pseudo-science and are saying ‘thanks, but no thanks’.

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