Thursday, February 11, 2010

A Reply to the Attacks on Climate Change [Junk] Science : Greentech Media
To set the record straight and provide appropriate scientific context, the Union of Concerned Scientists has assembled a series of explanatory backgrounders on specific allegations about the report.

Overall, the IPCC's conclusions remain indisputable: Climate change is happening now and human activity is causing it.
Global warming news index: It's quality not quantity that makes a difference: Tom Fuller
...watch what happens over the next ten days. Barring further scandalous developments, the large organisations will switch from reporting news to reinforcing background pieces that support the consensus fairly quickly, and before the end of this month the IPCC scandals and Pachauri's conflicts of interest will have disappeared down the memory hole. 
Croat scientist warns ice age could start in five years - General News - Croatian Times Online News - English Newspaper
A leading scientist has revealed that Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new Ice Age.

While climate change campaigners say global warming is the planet's biggest danger, renowned physicist Vladimir Paar says most of central Europe will soon be covered in ice.  [Via Heliogenic Climate Change]
Energy and Global Warming News for February 11th: Utilities continue to pursue economywide bill to cut global warming pollution sharply « Climate Progress
The association of the nation’s largest utilities will continue to pursue passage of an economywide bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions this year, the president of the Edison Electric Institute said yesterday.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: New test of patriotism – AGW belief
So now he’s Bill Nye, the Judge-Your-Patriotism Guy, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, especially since Rachel Maddow got the renowned climatologist as a guest. Wait, Nye isn’t a climatologist? He’s a mechanical engineer? Well, then, asking him to verify anthropogenic global warming is as silly as hiring a railroad engineer to chair a panel on climate change, isn’t it, or in passing unpublished student dissertations as reliable peer-reviewed studies in scientific presentations.

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