Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Climategate email scandal shatters public confidence in paying to go green > National News > News | Click Green

It finds people are increasingly reluctant to make personal financial sacrifices to protect the environment

Can Climate Change Alter Vacation Plans? - General News - redOrbit

The average shift was four days.

Human Factor Huge on Climate Change : Discovery News

It is "extremely likely" that human activities are "by far the dominant cause of warming" in Earth's climate since 1950, according to a study published this weekend in the journal Nature Geoscience. The amount of warming contributed by natural forces - for example, changes in solar radiation - during that time was, say the study's authors, "near zero."

The “contrived phony mess that is falling apart” that won’t go away | Planet3.0

I had the honor of a brief conversation with Jeff Masters last night. As I anticipated the admiration was non-mutual. He’s not a close follower of the climoblogosphere and had not heard of me. But I had the chance to ask him if really thought the weather was “going haywire”; I specifically used that informal old midwesternism. He said that he had seen nothing before to compare with the anomalous weather patterns of the past two years. I doubt there is a much closer observer of the day-to-day meanderings of the atmosphere than Jeff Masters.

 

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