Die Klimazwiebel: New Survey of Climate Scientists

If you have any questions or issues you would like to pose to the scientific community I will try and accommodate them in the survey.

Open Peer Commentaries for Human Engineering and Climate Change : Ethics Etc

Ethics, Policy and the Environment is now soliciting approximately 4-6 open commentaries in response to this article. Potential commentators will be invited to write short 750-1500 word responses which will be published simultaneously with the lead target article.

If you would like to be considered as a peer commentator for this article, please contact EPE’s editorial assistant, Elizabeth Hall: elizabeth.hall (at) colorado.edu.

Enough Evidence To Indict? | Real Science

There has been a consistent pattern of large scale, politically motivated data tampering by the hockey team.

Let’s review the facts.

• Briffa’s trees (green line below) showed temperatures declining after 1950, so Mann threw them away. He ignored the fact that NCAR temperature trends showed exactly the same cooling trend as Briffa’s trees...

Wind Power cartoon | Power Line

I suppose if wind were actually an effective power source, Barack Obama could power a battleship. Unfortunately, wind is unreliable, so not even Obama would rely on it for a really critical application: 

Student Monitors Antarctic Sea Ice | Stuff.co.nz

The team, including a PhD student from the University of Alberta in Canada, worked 18-hour days in up to minus 40 degrees Celsius wind-chill temperatures and whiteout conditions to complete the work.

"We have to protect these last untouched areas of the planet," Price said. "It is the general consensus within the scientific community that our actions are now resulting in changes to the polar regions.

Bill Mckibben - Organizing the Struggle for life on Planet Eaarth - Berkeleyside, powered by Helios Calendar

We are living in an economic system that thrives off of the destruction of the environment. Scientists are certain that if the level of global warming continues, most species on the planet, including our own, are threatened with extinction. We don’t have a choice -- we cannot let this destruction continue.