Post Tagged with: “global warming”

Chief CNN Meteorologist Reverses Position on Climate Change

Chief CNN Meteorologist Reverses Position on Climate Change

Chief meteorologist Chad Myers no longer doubts anthropogenic climate change.

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Snowstorms Don’t Threaten Climate Science

Snowstorms Don’t Threaten Climate Science

Far from a challenge for climate science to overcome, the cold snaps in recent years across the northeastern US are predictable downstream effects of a warming world.

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The Single Scientist Fallacy and the Serengeti Strategy

The Single Scientist Fallacy and the Serengeti Strategy

Contrarians who pin their criticism on specific individuals rather than concepts and evidence miss the forest for the trees by presuming that discrediting the former will tear down the latter.

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EPA Places Ban on Minor Greenhouse Gas

Wednesday June 8, 2011 brought temperatures to 94 F and a smog alert for central Ohio. The sun is reflected in the Scioto River looking east toward downtown Columbus, Ohio. (Dispatch photo by Craig Holman,  (ABOARD WBNS CHOPPER 10)    columbus skyline

The EPA finalized new requirements this week limiting the use of HFCs, a class of synthetic chemicals that contributes to climate change.

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The Case of the Missing ‘Hot Spot’

The Case of the Missing ‘Hot Spot’

Climate physics predicts a ‘hot spot’ in the tropics. Is this prediction vindicated by the temperature record?

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Taxonomizing the Climate Change Commentator

Taxonomizing the Climate Change Commentator

The media can improve the public conversation on climate change by labeling its participants appropriately.

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Newtok: The Nerve Center of Climate Change

Newtok: The Nerve Center of Climate Change

The Guardian has published a superb series on Alaska, home to America’s first climate refugees. With land disappearing and waters rushing inland at record pace, Alaska’s coast has become an unfortunate epicenter of climate change.

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The Hockey Stick Hasn’t Changed

The Hockey Stick Hasn’t Changed

The latest major climate study was released earlier this month, reaching back 11,300 years to reconstruct temperature and climate data.

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The Achilles Heel of Climate Denialism

The Achilles Heel of Climate Denialism

A survey of the peer reviewed literature shows that just 0.17% of papers since 1991 reject global warming. Regardless of how entrenched one’s views are within the denialist ecosystem, reality can only be eschewed for so long.

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Runaway Ice Loss in the Arctic

Runaway Ice Loss in the Arctic

Satellite observations paint a rather dreary picture of the situation at our North Pole.

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More Empty Words and Climate Politics

More Empty Words and Climate Politics

Another week, another global warming denialist spasm. The latest one saturating headlines is from a group of former NASA employees expressing dissent from the consensus.

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The Partisanship of Climate Denial

The Partisanship of Climate Denial

In recent decades, the populist discrediting of science has overwhelmingly originated from the conservative camps.

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