Thursday, August 09, 2012

Great news: The world is on the brink of a massive boom in oil production | Grist

If you need me, I’ll be on Mars, riding Curiosity around and taking pictures.

How to fix climate change? James Hansen, Richard Muller, Milton Friedman, Richard Posner agree.

[Eliot Spitzer] The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating.

Fresh Falsehoods in... | Facebook

[Michael Mann] Fresh Falsehoods in Rich Muller's Happy @LATimes Interview:

Antarcticas ancient ice growth gives climate clues - Page 1 | Firstpost

When we think of future climate change we think about everything happening together," said Harry Elderfield, a professor at Cambridge University and lead author of the study in Friday's edition of the journal Science."We might think that it's warmer so sea level would change at the same time" as ice melts on the land and adds to the oceans. "What we are seeing is that things are changing, not really in concert."

Scientists Have Established A Link Between Long-Term Climate Trends And Short-Term Weather - Investors.com

[Eugene Robinson] Excuse me, folks, but the weather is trying to tell us something. Listen carefully, and you can almost hear a parched, raspy voice whispering, "What part of 'hottest month ever' do you people not understand?"

Malloy: Climate change affecting Sound - Connecticut Post

During a panel discussion Thursday, the governor and others said climage change is increasingly affecting Long Island Sound, particularly the state's lobster fishery.

A 2012 Look Back at Climate Writings from the Early 40s and 50s | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

[1951] “The old-timers are right — winters aren’t what they were,” the provocative subheading began. “And the reason may be gentle tides deep under the sea that apparently change the climate of the whole earth.”

People in the 1940s and 1950s appear to have been at least mildly curious about climate change and eager to plan for the future. These articles calmly lay out surprising conditions and predictions of what would be their changing day-to-day lives and routines...

One point in Climate and Man that leaps out from the perspective of 2012 is that it pays no heed to any notion that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide were affecting the global climate. Not surprising given that the post-World War II industrialization, with its accompanying spurt in carbon dioxide emissions, was still a few years away. And with that spurt the warming we now trace back to those post-war years and decades.

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