Sunday, August 21, 2011

C3: Is It "Fleeing Species" From Global Warming, or Is It "Fleeing Journalists" From Objective Science Reporting?
The news media this past week made a huge to-do of a new study claiming that species across the world were fleeing geographical locations due global warming. While immediately trumpeting this story as new and significant, the actual truth indicates this study is just warmed-up, leftover garbage from a previous study by the same "scientist."
Duke of Northumberland: an unlikely hero in the fight against wind farms - Telegraph
Ralph Percy, the 12th Duke of Northumberland, has emerged as the unlikely people's hero in the fight against wind farms spreading across Britain.
McKibben and 100 Others Arrested at White House, Many Held Until Monday, “Lighting a Fire” Among Demonstrators | ThinkProgress
Bill McKibben sends this message from jail:
The only thing we need in here is more company. We don’t need your sympathy, we need your company.
The U.S. Park Police have decided to take a get tough attitude with those protesting the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
The Backstory to the ‘Fleeing Species’ Claim « NoFrakkingConsensus
(In this case, Bryan Walsh over at Time magazine bizarrely mentions “[a]n influential 2004 paper in Nature” regarding species extinction. He also mentions that its conclusions are disputed. But he neglects to point out to his readers that Thomas is responsible for both pieces of scholarship.)
Another GISS miss, Tisdale calls out Hansen and Sato on failed predictions | Watts Up With That?
I am writing to you via my weblog with a request and a question. First, the request: Please stop predicting El Niño and Super El Niño events. Your track record is very poor. I, like many people who study ENSO, hope for extreme El Niño events, but when you predict a strong El Niño, a La Niña starts to evolve, and when you predict a “Super El Niño”, a mild El Niño comes to pass. Two examples come to mind

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