Future climate change moving “from manageable to catastrophic”
Friday, August 23, 2013
The average American has probably never heard of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), even though it has existed since Ronald Reagan was president and is considered by most climate scientists as providing a kind of gold standard for current climate science knowledge every few years. Its drawback is how extremely conservative it is. Since it operates on a consensus model, all statements require unanimous or near unanimous agreement. Pick any profession. Lawyers, truck drivers, brain surgeons, insurance salesmen, nurses, journalists or anything else you want to name. Then imagine gathering 2,000 of the most highly respected members of…
Is climate change denial blissful?
Thursday, August 22, 2013
David Horsey, who drew the above cartoon recently wrote an editorial for the L.A. Times in which he wrote, “Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.” Horsey, who has won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartoons, focused on the fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reviewed all the science on climate change and concluded that the world’s oceans could rise three…
Methane emergency in the Arctic?
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Thanks to Bob Baker for this. It really isn’t that hard to know what is true and what isn’t. From kindergarten to junior high to high school to college to graduate school, I cannot recall a lot of confusion or controversy. Within the education departments across the planet a fact is a fact. Two plus two is four. E=Mc2. Redding is really hot in the summer. It is only when politicians and media companies and Anthony Watts get involved that the science becomes distorted and confused. When money and power need the truth to be something it isn’t. And people…