Saturday, April 28, 2012

Climate Conversations – Will climate change tip poor nations’ health systems over the edge? | JunkScience.com

Killer health problems such as diarrhoea, malnutrition, malaria and dengue are highly sensitive to climate change and could worsen in the coming decades, health experts agree. But how, where and to what extent remains unclear.

David Evans explains the skeptics case (YouTube) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Last week we finished some YouTube versions explaining the skeptical case. These grew out of the interview we did with Nick Minchin and Anna Rose for the  ABC documentary I Can Change Your Mind. They are what we would have said, if we’d been editing the documentary :) .

The New Nostradamus of the North: Indian agriculture minister: "Global warming has not adversely impacted India´s agriculture production"

Remember all those doomsdays predictions about global warming leading to famine and huge harvest failures in India and other countries?

Well, it did not happen:

Correlation between rising carbon dioxide levels and temperature over the past decade « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

Yikes! It looks like there isn’t much of one. Temp is going straight down and CO2 continuing straight up!

Boslough: Explain this one « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

If human activity cannot explain the temperature increase in the 19th century and 1910-1944, why is it necessary to invoke it now? And why is it necessary to invoke doom? I would suggest applying Occam’s razor and getting rid of the human causation hypothesis.

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