Friday, February 22, 2013

Antarctic Ice: Growing So Fast That It Will One Day Cover Earth? - Investors.com
We don't think Real Science expects Earth to be fully covered with Antarctic ice in 1,000 years. But it is a fine, though maybe somewhat snarky, response to Al Gore wildly claiming in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" that sea levels will rise 20 feet due to global warming.

The point is, a lot of data look extreme if their trend lines are projected to go unbroken for decades and centuries, and no room is allowed for reversals.
Twitter / HaroldAmbler: I would break rocks with a ...
I would break rocks with a sledgehammer for two months for the right to debate Al Gore on live national TV about climate change #stophiding
Twitter / HaroldAmbler: When was the last time you ...
When was the last time you saw Al Gore talking on camera to someone about climate who disagreed with him? Wait -- never? Never? Wow! #weird
Twitter / enviroblack: Very good to see Mail covering ...
Very good to see Mail covering science properly - an end to the regular doses of Denialism on Sunday, maybe
Twitter / RyanMaue: Conflating Hurricane Sandy ...
Conflating Hurricane Sandy damages w/Tar Sands oil policy is disingenuous anti-science. Pure ideology / politics.
Twitter / Chris_C_Horner: EPA re series of fawning profiles ...
EPA re series of fawning profiles of RWindsor: "We can't take the credit for having worked this one they way we did with the NYT last week."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Study of Siberian permafrost caves shows global warming of just 1.5C 'would pump out a TRILLION tons of methane and CO2

There have been NO papers on the temperature records of that area?