Friday, August 26, 2011

The Reference Frame: House GOP may finally remove U.S. funding for AGW freeloaders
The idea is that they will look for the "climate change" keyword and ax any line items with this keyword.

I think it's a simple yet good idea except that there should be additional keywords, including "global warming", "IPCC", and maybe even things like "carbon emissions" or "carbon dioxide emissions", if not "green energy" etc.
That Australian sense of humour: not the Tea Party, the G.R.O.G. Party « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
G.R.O.G. = Get Rid Of Gillard
News from UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources
There are plenty of freshman science classes on campus, but it’s safe to say that Introduction to Environmental Studies (ESPM C12, English C77) is the only one in which students are introduced to the scientific method through studying a surrealist painting.
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In the 12 years since it began, the class has also changed based on scientific advances. They used to spend a lot of time on the concept of global warming, Hass says, assigning multiple articles on issues such as measuring ice core samples to demonstrate what was happening to the planet.

sposito_130.jpg“The Al Gore movie changed all that,” says Sposito, referring to "An Inconvenient Truth," which won Gore an Oscar and a share in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. After the movie’s release, students started to arrive with some core understanding of issues related to global climate change.
Hayhoe : Your Energy Choice Will Cause A Permanent Drought In Texas | Real Science
What total bullshit.

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