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How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic (FAQ)

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:49:11 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: More common questions and myths answered at the source, thoroughly cross-referenced and conveniently categorized and sub-categorized by type of argument:

Stages of Denial

Scientific Topics

Types of Argument

Levels of Sophistication

A nice reference that's updated with fresh comments. Many "skeptics" often are unaware (by choice or by circumstance) that their common questions have already been addressed by scientists long ago.

Clip Source: gristmill.grist.org

Stages of Denial

There's nothing happening

Inadequate evidence

Contradictory evidence

No consensus

We don't know why it's happening

Models don't work

Prediction is impossible

We can't be sure

Tags: climate, global, global warming, climate change, environment, skeptic, skeptics, climatology, atmosphere, earth, science, debate, argument, faq, questions, answers, c02, glaciers, temperature, myths

The Anasazi mystery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:32:01 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the Davis Ranch Site doesn’t seem to fit in. Staring back from the opposite bank, the tumbled walls of Reeve Ruin are just as surprising

Some 700 years ago, as part of a vast migration, a people called the Anasazi, driven by God knows what, wandered from the north to form settlements like these, stamping the land with their own unique style

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

These Anasazi newcomers

were distinctive in other ways. They liked to build with stone

Why, in the late 13th century, did thousands of Anasazi abandon Kayenta, Mesa Verde and the other magnificent settlements of the Colorado Plateau and move south into Arizona and New Mexico?

Looking beyond climate change, some archaeologists are studying the effects of warfare and the increasing complexity of Anasazi society. They are looking deeper into ancient artifacts and finding hints of an ideological struggle, clues to what was going through the Anasazi mind.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

No more power bills -ever

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:10:55 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

HYDROGEN HOUSE: This unassuming modular home in suburban New Jersey runs on solar power and stored hydrogen.
©DAVID BIELLO

EAST AMWELL, N.J.—Mike Strizki has not paid an electric, oil or gas bill—nor has he spent a nickel to fill up his Mercury Sable—in nearly two years. Instead, the 51-year-old civil engineer makes all the fuel he needs using a system he built in the capacious garage of his home, which employs photovoltaic (PV) panels to turn sunlight into electricity that is harnessed in turn to extract hydrogen from tap water.

Although the device cost $500,000 to construct, and it is unlikely it will ever pay off financially (even with today's skyrocketing oil and gas prices), the civil engineer says it is priceless in terms of what it does buy: freedom from ever paying another heating or electric bill, not to mention keeping a lid on pollution, because water is its only by-product.

Tags: hydrogen, power bills, solar power

Do Not Read This !

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:08:56 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: At the current state of our planet, and mounting evidence to human induced climate change, these rich resources of fossil fuels are nothing short of a Faustian proposition.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

The area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil, 1,670 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas, and 44 billion barrels of technically recoverable natural gas liquids in 25 geologically defined areas thought to have potential for petroleum.

The U.S. Geological Survey assessment released July 24 is the first publicly available petroleum resource estimate of the entire area north of the Arctic Circle.

These resources account for about 22 percent of the undiscovered, technically recoverable resources in the world.

The Arctic accounts for about 13 percent of the undiscovered oil, 30 percent of the undiscovered natural gas, and 20 percent of the undiscovered natural gas liquids in the world. About 84 percent of the estimated resources are expected to occur offshore.

we're providing the same information to everyone in the world so that the global community can make those difficult decisions.

Tags: fossil fuels, environment

Global Warming Myth Exposed - Devastated

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:13:03 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: I realize the understanding of science in America and Europe especially is ridiculously poor. However, this presenter does a fine job of presenting the facts regarding the claims of the global warming alarmists.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: global warming, climate change, climate

State of the planet, in graphics

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:31:45 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

State of the planet, in graphics

Globally human populations are growing, trade is increasing, and living standards are rising for many. But, according to the UN's latest Global Environment Outlook report, long-term problems including climate change, pollution, access to clean water, and the threat of mass extinctions are being met with "a remarkable lack of urgency".

Tags: state of the planet, graphics, bbc, global

The Earth fights back

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:40:43 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis

Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

periods in our planet's history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected

an increase in volcanic activity, earthquakes, giant submarine landslides and tsunamis

there was a close correlation between how quickly sea levels went up and down during the last ice age and the level of explosive activity at volcanoes in Italy and Greece

how can rising sea levels cause volcanoes to erupt?

answer lies in the enormous mass of the water pouring into the ocean basins

seems to be sufficient to load and bend the underlying crust.

Tags: science, earth, global warming, earthquakes, volcanooes

Deja Vu

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:57:18 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com

NYT: Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea

“Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared if Change Occurs”

You can read the entire article in PDF form at this link

There’s just one thing wrong with this article, besides that it is flat wrong. Oh I know, there will be those that insist it may come true. However, there’s one bit of context that is worth exploring.

The article, as seen above, was published February 20th, 1969

See the date stamp at the bottom of the PDF

On the flip side, here is an article from 1922 where the ice is actually melting fast:

Deja Vu all over again: climate worries of today also happened in the 20’s and 30’s

Positive Proof of Global Warming

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:35:11 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Irrefutable, undeniable evidence!

Clip Source: forums.farvista.net

Tags: global warming, climate change, humour

Our Minds- the Next Victim of Climate Change

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:47:39 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds

Australia is suffering through its worst dry spell in a millennium. The outback has turned into a dust bowl, crops are dying off at fantastic rates, cities are rationing water, coral reefs are dying, and the agricultural base is evaporating.

But what really intrigues Glenn Albrecht — a philosopher by training — is how his fellow Australians are reacting.

They're getting sad.

In interviews Albrecht conducted over the past few years, scores of Australians described their deep, wrenching sense of loss as they watch the landscape around them change. Familiar plants don't grow any more. Gardens won't take. Birds are gone. "They no longer feel like they know the place they've lived for decades," he says.

Albrecht believes that this is a new type of sadness. People are feeling displaced. They're suffering symptoms eerily similar to those of indigenous populations that are forcibly removed from their traditional homelands

Tags: australia, dry spell, philosophy

Gore home energy use 20x national average

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:26:57 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks: Goracle says, "Do as I say, not as I do."

Clip Source: www.tennesseepolicy.org

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).

In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.

Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.

Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.

“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.

In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.

Tags: global warming, climate change, politics, energy, gore, hypocrisy

Climate change will lead to war

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:48:45 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.cosmosmagazine.com

BALI: Global warming could lead to internal conflicts, regional unrest and war, with North Africa, the Sahel and South Asia among the hotspots, says a report issued at the Bali climate summit.

The warning by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) came just hours ahead of ceremonies in Oslo to award the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. climate campaigner Al Gore and the U.N.'s top scientific panel on the greenhouse-gas problem.

UNEP called for a twin-pronged approach, tackling the carbon emissions that stoke global warming and helping vulnerable countries shore up defences against its impacts.

"Global civil war"

"If global warming is not confined, fragile, vulnerable states which have already now fairly bad governance might implode under the pressure of global warming and then send shock waves to other countries so that you will have spill-over effects," said one of the authors, Hans Schnellhuber, a professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research near Berlin, Germany.

Tags: climate change, war

500 Billion Tons of Prehistoric Organic Matter May Massively Accelerate ‘Global Warming’

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:28:07 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: While some dismiss the 52-year-old as an alarmist crank, his theory is steadily gaining credibility in the scientific community. "There's quite a bit of truth in it," Julian Murton, member of the International Permafrost Association, told Reuters. "The methane and carbon dioxide levels will increase as a result of permafrost degradation."

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

For thousands of years animal waste, and other organic matter left behind on the Arctic tundra, have been sealed off from the environment by permafrost.

Now climate change is melting the permafrost and freeing mass quantities of prehistoric “ooze” from its state of suspended animation.

Russian scientist, Sergei Zimov, has been studying climate change in Russia's Arctic for 30 years now. He is worried that as this organic matter becomes exposed to the air it will drastically accelerate global warming predictions even beyond some of the most pessimistic forecasts.

"This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop,"

microbes that have been dormant for thousands of years will spring back into action. They’ll begin once again to emit carbon dioxide and methane gas as a by-product.

"Permafrost areas hold 500 billion tons of carbon, which can fast turn into greenhouse gases

Tags: climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas

A Planet Under Pressure

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:52:18 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

With humanity demanding more from the Earth than ever before, BBC News explores the planet's most pressing environmental problems in a six-part series.

PART 1: BIODIVERSITY

The sixth mass extinction?

PART 2: WATER

Running dry?

PART 3: ENERGY

Heading for a crisis?

PART 4: FOOD

Can the planet feed us?

PART 5: POLLUTION

Pollution: A life and death issue

PART 6: CLIMATE CHANGE

Entering uncharted waters?

Talking Point
How does climate change affect you? Can it be tackled?

Climate evidence
Warming world, rising sea and melting ice

Saving the planet
Teenagers tell us how they would tackle environmental damage

Animated guide
How the greenhouse effect might shape our climate

Changed Earth
Before and after images of the effects of climate change

Kyoto era dawns
EU emissions trading scheme starts the carbon revolution

Green gardening
See the results of our eco-friendly garden competition

Where will we be?
BBC website exploring the UN's goals for the planet in 2015

Arctic Ice Fields 'Receding Like Mad'

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:01:16 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: "Even with no additional warming, our study indicates these ice caps will be gone in 50 years or less,"

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by 50 percent in recent decades as a result of warming temperatures. Credit: Gifford Miller, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by 50 percent in recent decades as a result of warming temperatures. Credit: Gifford Miller, University of Colorado at Boulder

Ice fields on an Arctic island have shrunk 50 percent in the past 50 years and will be gone in 50 more, scientists said this week.

Located just west of Greenland, Baffin Island is the fifth largest island in the world, with an area of 196,000 square miles (about 508,000 square kilometers). That's larger than California.

A study published in the Jan. 28 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters reveals the expanses of ice blanketing Baffin's northern plateau in the Canadian Arctic are smaller than at any time in at least the last 1,600 years.

Tags: arctic ice, climate change