Climatologist Dr. David Legates tells the U.S. Senate of ‘the silencing of the dissenters’: ‘Young scientists quickly learn to ‘do what is expected of them’ or at least remain quiet, lest they lose their career before it begins’
By David R. Legates, Ph.D., C.C.M. – University of Delaware I am a Professor of Climatology at the University of Delaware and I served as the Delaware State Climatologist from 2005 to 2011. I also am an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Economics & Statistics and the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering Program. […]
Forty-One Senators Push For Repeal Of Obama’s EPA Cap-And-Trade Rule
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/04/forty-one-senators-push-for-repeal-of-obamas-cap-and-trade-rule/
‘New Video Turns Up the Heat on GOP Climate Deniers’
http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/04/video-gop-climate-change-deniers/
Global Temperature Update: Still no global warming for 17 years 9 months – Since Sept. 1996
Global Temperature Update Still no global warming for 17 years 9 months By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley – Special to Climate Depot According to the RSS satellite data, whose value for May 2014 has just been published, the global warming trend in the 17 years 9 years since September 1996 is zero (Fig. 1). The 213 months […]
Analysis: skeptical ‘hedge’ wording creeping into newspaper articles
Nonconsensus: ‘The society has actually asked its members what they think. What a refreshing contrast to the learned societies in the UK, whose politically inclined leaderships are happy to issue statements in the names of their members without batting an eyelid’
Nonconsensus http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/6/4/nonconsensus.html An interesting headline in the Australian – paywalled, so I can’t see the rest of the article: AUSTRALIA’S peak body of earth scientists has declared itself unable to publish a position statement on climate change due to the deep divisions within its membership on the issue. After more than five years of debate […]
Antarctic Sea Ice Growth Continues To Blow Away Records: ‘Highest level since measurements began in 1979’ – ‘10.3% above 1981-2010 climatological avg’
Antarctic Sea Ice Continues To Blow Away Records http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/antarctic-sea-ice-continues-to-blow-away-records By Paul Homewood http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html Antarctic sea ice has set a new record for May, with extent at the highest level since measurements began in 1979. At the end of the month, it expanded to 12.965 million sq km, beating the previous record of 12.722 […]
No, Gwyneth Paltrow, That’s Not How Physical Reality Works: You cannot emotionally injure water (seriously)
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/06/thats-not-how-physical-reality-works-gwyneth.html
The War On Coal Is Already Over, Mr. President — coal lost..’They drilled, baby, and it worked: massive shale exploration produced a 65% drop in natural-gas prices since 2005 that is wiping out coal’s few remaining growth prospects’
The War On Coal Is Already Over, Mr. President http://www.thegwpf.org/the-war-on-coal-is-already-over-mr-president/ The war on coal already happened — coal lost. And for a reason that should make conservatives happy: They drilled, baby, and it worked: massive shale exploration produced a 65% drop in natural-gas prices since 2005 that is wiping out coal’s few remaining growth prospects. […]
Earth Scientists Split On Climate Statement: ‘Unable to publish a position statement on climate change due to the deep divisions within its membership on the issue’
Earth Scientists Split On Climate Change Statement http://www.thegwpf.org/earth-scientists-split-on-climate-change-statement/ Australia’s peak body of earth scientists has declared itself unable to publish a position statement on climate change due to the deep divisions within its membership on the issue. After more than five years of debate and two false starts, Geological Society of Australia president Laurie Hutton […]