IPS – Climate Change and Poverty, a Deadly Cocktail for Dominicans | Inter Press Service

“I’ve lived here for 17 years and I can tell you that in the last five years the rains have been getting more and more intense, and that has brought more floods. Everyone knows this is caused by climate change,” Eridania Rosario Marcelo, president of the La Barquita neighbourhood association, told IPS.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: PSU ought to get these con ...

PSU ought to get these contrary views,their authors, & sponsor debate with hockey stick proponents in campus forum. These are sound studies!

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: More challenge to the posi ...

More challenge to the positive feed back idea http://www.leif.org/EOS/2012GL052094-pip.pdf …

Drought’s Footprint - Graphic - NYTimes.com

Areas under moderate to extreme drought in June of each year are shown in orange below.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Another broken hockey stick: New paper finds ocean temps were warmer during multiple periods over past 2700 years & current warming within natural variability

A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds that sea surface temperatures [SSTs] in the Southern Okinawa Trough off the coast of China were warmer than the present during the Minoan Warm Period 2700 years ago, the Roman Warm Period 2000 years ago, and the Sui-Tang dynasty Warm Period 1400 years ago. According to the authors, "Despite an increase since 1850 AD, the mean [sea surface temperature] in the 20th century is still within the range of natural variability during the past 2700 years." In addition, the paper shows the rate of warming in the Minoan, Roman, Medieval, and Sui-Tang dynasty warm periods was much faster than in the current warming period since the Little Ice Age. The paper finds "A close correlation of SST in Southern Okinawa Trough with air temperature in East China, intensity of East Asian monsoon and the El-Niño Southern Oscillation index has been attributed to the fluctuations in solar output and oceanic-atmospheric circulation," which corroborates other papers demonstrating that the climate is highly sensitive to tiny changes in solar activity. The paper adds to the peer-reviewed publications of over a thousand scientists showing that the current warm period is well within the range of natural variability and is not unprecedented, not accelerated, and not unusual in any respect.