Day: July 29, 2013

6th Daily Record in 7 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent — 180,000 sq km higher than the previous record which occurred in 2010

What Is Cook’s 97% Consensus? ‘Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. This is a very wide definition that even most sceptical scientists would have little difficulty agreeing with. It is also an pretty meaningless statement’

What Is Cook’s Consensus? http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/what-is-cooks-consensus By Paul Homewood   John Cook’s little paper, “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature” has attracted much attention in recent weeks. Yesterday an essay by Brandon Shollenberger at WUWT, which accused the authors of “laundering lies”, made me realise that an important issue seems to […]

New Study: Earthquakes ‘contribute to global warming by releasing greenhouse gas from the ocean floor’

Flashback: Facing the White House, Labor and Union Groups Urge Obama to Approve Keystone XL

Obama on Keystone pipeline: ‘I’m going to evaluate this based on whether or not this is going to significantly contribute to carbon [sic] in our atmosphere’

Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew blames GOP for Keystone XL delay

TransCanada rebuts Obama on Keystone XL jobs: ‘It is not logical to think a $7.6 billion infrastructure project stretching across the entire breadth of the continental U.S. wouldn’t employ thousands of workers both in the manufacturing sector and in constructing the pipeline’

Obama’s sneer at tar sands jobs is a sneer at $17 trillion in wealth creation

Analysis of claimed ‘97% consensus’: ‘The vast majority [of studies] fall into the Impacts and Mitigation categories’ — ‘Many of these do not back up Cook’s assertion that human activity is very likely causing most of the current global warming’

Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry: ‘Until less than a year ago, anyone who spoke too loudly about the pause and possibility of natural variability dominating climate change was called a ‘denier’. Now the the establishment is scrambling to explain the pause in context of the ‘inevitable’ dangerous anthropogenic climate change, we have about a half dozen different competing explanations’