Saturday, April 07, 2012

NASA Scientist: Climate Change Is a Moral Matter, Like Slavery - Erika Johnsen

It is truly amazing to me that conservatives are so often dismissively labeled as "extremists," "radicals," and plain old "crazy," while leftists constantly reward their own for tossing around intellectually cheap and practically deranged statements like this one. No, global warming does not share a moral basis with slavery: slavery is fundamentally, philosophically wrong, while climate change is based on the conflicting claims of a not-personally-disinterested scientific community -- and personally, I think our crushingly unsustainable rate of spending and debt accrual is a much larger travesty for future generations than our energy usage.

Greenland Ice Sheet Webcam Getting Buried In Snow | Real Science

Six Straight Months Below Freezing | Real Science

The last time Ojmjakon, Russia was above freezing during the winter that wasn’t was October 5, 2011.

It is currently -21C there and no indication of above freezing temperatures any time in the near future.

Little Ice Age Was The Coldest Period For 10000 Years « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

We regularly hear claims of “record breaking” and “unprecedented” temperatures in Arctic regions. However, as the records usually only go back to the 19th C, these statements are pretty meaningless.

There are in fact many scientific studies that show the Little Ice Age, which came to end in the late 19th C, was the coldest period in these regions for maybe 10000 years.

Extraordinary Hansen et al Paper | Planet3.0

Before getting into the meat of the matter I wanted to fire off a quick note about Hansen’s method of publication is. Getting a paper into arxiv is simply a matter of uploading it. Why not submit this to peer review? Well, having Hansen as first author confers a credibility comparable to publishing in a top flight journal. I think we can already consider this paper part of the scientific literature.

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