Study: Surgery is warming the planet – Anesthetic gases accumulating in atmosphere
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/04/07/Your-surgery-is-warming-the-planet-a-little/4711428433123/
Grasping For Pause-ible Deniability On Climate Change
http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/grasping-for-pause-ible-deniability-on-climate-change.html
New Yorker: ‘Has climate change made it harder for people to care about conservation?’
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/carbon-capture I accepted its supremacy as the environmental issue of our time, but I felt bullied by its dominance. Not only did it make every grocery-store run a guilt trip; it made me feel selfish for caring more about birds in the present than about people in the future. … Climaticmatic stress are […]
Arctic Ice Decline: A New ‘Pause?’
http://www.thegwpf.com/arctic-ice-decline-a-new-pause/ When satellite observations of Arctic ice extent began in 1979 it was obvious that a long-term decline was already underway. That decline appeared to be monotonic until the mid-2000s when, for a while at least, it seemed to have accelerated. The ice extent in the summer of 2007 was a record low, and […]
Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry pulls no punches: Draft APS climate ‘statement is an embarrassment to the American Physical Society’
The 97 Percent Climate Change Consensus That Wasn’t
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/04/06/97-percent-climate-change-consensus-wasnt Cook’s paper, because of its poor research methods, doesn’t even prove the limited claim 97 percent of the academic literature supports a human role in climate change. Cook and his colleagues, including a small group of environmental activists, claimed to examine abstracts of more than 12,000 papers. Tol writes: They did not check whether […]
Wash Post: ‘Climate-change deniers are in retreat’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-deniers-are-in-retreat/2015/04/06/942eb980-dc9f-11e4-be40-566e2653afe5_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
WaPo: ‘What will happen after people stop ignoring the evidence on climate change’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/04/07/what-will-happen-after-people-stop-ignoring-the-evidence-on-climate-change/
‘Has The UK Guardian Rolling Stoned Christy & Spencer?’
Has The Guardian Rolling Stoned Christy & Spencer? http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/04/has-the-guardian-rolling-stoned-christy-spencer/ That tireless ecological zealot over at The Guardian, Dana Nuccitelli, took the opportunity of our 25th anniversary of satellite-based global temperature monitoring to rip us a new one. Comparing John Christy and me to “scientists who disputed the links between smoking and cancer”, Dana once again […]
Obama announces 30 medical schools will teach how to treat people suffering from global warming – White House to explore how climate change makes you sick
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/04/07/white-house-to-explore-how-climate-change-makes-you-sick/