Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Climate change skeptics use the O.J. defense tactic - latimes.com
Climate change skeptics sound like Simpson's lawyers: If the winter glove won't fit, you must acquit.
By Bill McKibben

In recent years, every major scientific body in the world has produced reports confirming the peril of climate change. All 15 of the warmest years on record have come in the last two decades. And Earth's major natural systems are all showing undeniable signs of rapid flux: melting Arctic and glacial ice, rapidly acidifying seawater and so on.
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For a gifted political operative like, say, Marc Morano, who runs the Climate Depot website, the massive snowfalls this winter provided grist for a hundred posts poking fun at the very idea that anyone could still possibly believe in, you know, physics. Morano truly is talented -- he immediately posted a link to a live webcam so readers could watch snow coming down.
Flashback: A New Leaderboard at the U.S. Open « Climate Audit
Four of the top 10 are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900.
Part One: Global Warming: Fact or Fabrication?
"I don't really think that global warming exists. I will grant you that there's climate change, but in the overall scheme of things, those are two different terms you're talking about,” said Jim Loznicka, WJHG’s morning meteorologist.

"There's really just not enough data in my opinion to say humans are causing all of this global warming and we have to make changes,” said Chris Smith, WJHG Chief Meteorologist.
Brits Trust David Attenborough On Climate Change More Than Gore, Prince Charles « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip
Of the more than 1,043 people polled by the Euro RSCG London, one of the UK’s top advertising agencies, Attenborough came out on top with 14%, followed by Al Gore (9%), Prince Charles (8%) and Bob Geldof and Barack Obama each getting 5%.
AU and WAMU Examine "The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, and Politics in an Unsustainable World" : Framing Science
Monday night, March 1, starting at 630pm, American University's School of Communication will be hosting a panel discussion focused on "The Climate Change Generation: Youth, Media, and Politics in an Unsustainable World." [Follow the link for location on campus and directions. This is a rescheduled event from February that was postponed due to weather.]

Joining me on the panel will be the Washington Post's national environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin and Mother Jones energy and environmental reporter Kate Shepard. The panel will be moderated by AU journalism professor Jane Hall.

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