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Climate calamity or ramped up rhetoric?
30.12.2006 from Gristmill:
'My view is that the statements of the scientific community (as represented by the IPCC assessments) are remarkably sound and not at all "oversold",' claims atmospheric scientist Andrew Dessler.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Science]
Image: Climate calamity or ramped up rhetoric?
Here's some of the naturally-sequestered missing carbon: coal ready for burning in Australia
10.12.2006 from Rabett Run blog:
Just when you think it can't get more stupic [sic], the denial crowd grubs down into the ditch and finds more.
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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Climate change] [Science]
Image: Here's some of the naturally-sequestered missing carbon: coal ready for burning in Australia © Greenpeace International
Hydrogen-powered bus
06.12.2006 from What's Next In Science & Technology:
Scientists at the University of Bath have invented a material which stores and releases hydrogen at room temperature and promises to help make hydrogen power a viable clean technology for the future.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Energy] [Transport]
Image: Hydrogen-powered bus © UNEP
Some light on the issue of climate change
30.10.2006 from RealClimate blog:
Why you shouldn't take your science stories from the mass media if you can possibly find better sources... which nowadays are readily available. Is Senator Inhofe listening?
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Media] [Science]
Image: Some light on the issue of climate change © Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Antarctic ice sheet: source of the CO2 data
06.09.2006 from A Few Things Ill Considered blog:
Humanity is really taking us off the charts in terms of the atmosphere/ocean climate system that has existed for longer than the entire history of the human species.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Pollution]
Image: Antarctic ice sheet: source of the CO2 data © British Antarctic Survey
Fraudulent sceptics help no-one  so more extinctions, like that of the golden frog, are certain
03.09.2006 from Deltoid blog:
'Yes, it's another version of the disingenous baseline game that produced all those bogus "global warming ended in 1998" claims,' explains Tim Lambert.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Science]
Image: Fraudulent sceptics help no-one so more extinctions, like that of the golden frog, are certain © R.Malenki / WWF International
Antarctic ice sheet
28.08.2006 from RealClimate:
Is the Antarctic ice sheet getting bigger or smaller? Is it warming or cooling? These are critical questions to which science is beginning to provide answers.
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Related topics/regions: [Antarctica] [Climate change]
Image: Antarctic ice sheet © British Antarctic Survey
These protesters have good reasons to be concerned
21.08.2006 from Carbon Footprints blog:
With the aid of a climate scientist, Sir David Attenborough explains why he is convinced that humans are definitely the cause of global warming.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Atmosphere] [Science]
Image: These protesters have good reasons to be concerned © WWF International
Ocean-atmosphere: chaotic but predictable
15.08.2006 from RealClimate:
Forecasters can't even accurately predict what the weather will do next week. Why should we believe the longer-range predictions of climatologists? This post explains.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Science]
Image: Ocean-atmosphere: chaotic but predictable © Michael Klare / MediaChannel
Emission Impossible
07.07.2006 from RealClimate.org:
Is there 'a' point at which climate will tip and become 'dangerous'? Gavin Schmidt is a climate modeller who gives us the low down on these critical phenomena.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Science]
Image: Emission Impossible © Journeyman Pictures

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