BBC News - Climate research bolsters 'action' call to UN talks
Their main conclusion is that it is extremely likely that at least 74% of the observed warming since 1950 has been caused by man-made factors.
Why isn't the fair-and-balanced Revkin questioning the timing of the release of this research?
Every snowflake is unique, but attacks on climate science all seem the same. I should know. I've been one of the climate contrarians' preferred targets for years.
A recent op-ed on this page by blogger and climate-change denier James Delingpole attacked the "hockey stick" graph my co-authors and I published more than a decade ago with well-worn, discredited arguments ("Climategate 2.0," Nov. 28).
Our original work showed that average temperatures today are higher than they have been for at least the past 1,000 years. Since then, dozens of analyses from other scientists based on different data and methods have all affirmed and extended our original findings.
U.S. News - Coke, Grand Canyon bottled water controversy gets murkier
PEER earlier this year accused Jarvis of caving in to Coca-Cola, at which time he issued a statement that his decision in December 2010 to scuttle the ban "was not influenced by Coke, but rather the service-wide implications to our concessions contracts, and frankly the concern for public safety in a desert park."
Robson: Kyoto backers spewing hot hair | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
But if man really is setting the sky on fire and must stop or we will destroy civilization as we know it, the last thing activists should do is cling to a treaty that neither prevented man-made GHG emissions from rising in practice nor could have prevented it in theory.
So much for Australia winning planetary respect for imposing a carbon tax on its resentful citizens.
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