Bathtub Plug Is Designed To Remind Us That The Planet Is In Peril!

“Sounds crazy but it’s true. For all those who doubt climate change, a company called Propaganda has designed a bathtub plug in the form of an iceberg with a polar bear stranded on it. By using this plug, the perilous situation of our planet will finally be made clear, the product description promises.

What motivates rejection of (climate) science?

[UWA School of Psychology Professor Stephan Lewandowsky] "Blogs have a huge impact on society..."

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds unjustified assumptions on clouds in most climate models

A paper published today in Earth System Dynamics finds that due to large uncertainties and limited data it is not possible "to rule out either the positive [cloud] feedback present in most climate models or a strong negative cloud feedback." This huge unknown could alone be responsible for all global warming due a tiny 1-2% natural change in global cloud cover. Climate models conveniently assume clouds are a positive feedback that accelerates global warming, but this paper and many others show this is an unjustified assumption and that cloud feedback could instead be "strongly negative."

Brendan DeMelle | Daily Kos Climate Change SOS Blogathon Features Wide Range of Climate [Hoax Promoter] Voices

Our friends over at Daily Kos are running an amazing Climate Change SOS Blogathon this week, featuring dozens of voices from the climate hawk community. Bill McKibben, Michael Mann, John Abraham, Rep. Ed Markey, A Siegel, Richard Heinberg, Heather Libby, Brad Johnson, Kelly Rigg and DeSmog's IT director Evan Leeson are just some of the many friends of DeSmog that are contributing posts throughout the week-long blogathon.

Daily Kos: Climate Change SOS Blogathon: Sea Level Rise...Extreme History, Uncertain Future

[Greg Laden] Imagine yourself as a hunter gatherer living on Australia’s Nullibar Plain sometime around 14,000 years ago. This vast very flat region of southern Australia is edged on its southern border by a cliff below which the plain extends a great distance beneath the ocean. During the last Ice Age, with so much water trapped in glaciers, sea levels were much lower and this part of the Plain was dry land. So imagine you are a hunter gatherer living there, on the coast, exploiting the local seafood. Tiring of cockles and clams, you leave your sea-side camp to head inland for a bout of kangaroo hunting. You get up early in the morning and walk several kilometers north, away from the sea. You eat a Kangaroo or two, make camp, and go to sleep. The next morning, when you wake up, the sea has caught up to you. The sea is rising at the same rate that you are walking, or a bit slower. Or, on some days, a bit faster.