Friday, April 20, 2012

Polar bears may have survived multiple warm and ice-free episodes, so The Independent assumes they are at even greater risk | JunkScience.com

Polar bears are 450,000 years older than we thought – Endangered predator may be particularly vulnerable to rapid climate change in Arctic, experts fear

M4GW On The Radio - Special Earth Day Program - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Elmer will have his guitar and will be revealing his new Earth Day Song.

Rapid Glacial Retreat At The Bottom Of The Hockey Stick | Real Science

Smoking gun that hockey team “climate science” has absolutely nothing to do with science. Alaska’s most famous glacier retreated an astonishing five feet per day at the bottom of the hockey stick.

Die Klimazwiebel: Good science on Himalayan glaciers

It is well known that the mass balance of some glaciers are more strongly driven by precipitation than by temperature. During the Little Ice Age , for instance, some Norwegian glaciers gained mass, whereas other glaciers from surrounding regions lost mass, probably reflecting a shift in the weather patterns that brought moisture to those glaciers.

William M. Briggs » Steve Zwick Says Burn The Deniers (Metaphorically)!

There is a scene in Woody Allen’s Radio Days in which we see a diminutive old man from Rockaway Beach who, one day, snaps and runs out of his house in his underwear—t-shirt, shorts, socks with garters. He stops every so often, turns and waves a butcher’s knife. The old man desires to menace and terrify, but he comes off like a confused, impotent old man. It is a comical performance.

And in yet another instance of life imitating art, the scene was played out yesterday in Forbes by Steve Zwick, who played the old man. Poor Zwick’s unfortunate weapon of choice is purple prose, which of course is never very frightening. However, Zwick’s apoplexy appears to have unhinged his faculties so he may not be responsible for his actions.

A Tennessee Fireman's Solution to Climate Change - Forbes

NOTE: After reading the comments, it’s clear I need to, well, clarify a few things.

First, I’m not advocating anyone go out and burn someone’s house down, just as the firemen didn’t burn anyone’s house down but rather withheld a service from people who didn’t pay their fair share.  (A friend of mine did actually have his house burned down by a deranged animal rights activist, so I know there are crazies on both sides of this debate.)

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