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Semantic battle among physicists forces a restatement of their stance on climate change
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060016675
Semantics is very important in science and I agree that the 2007 version was non-scientific:
…The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating
Two interesting articles on global warming and that it ain’t so bad for certain people/ecosystems…
Extra Heat Turning Northern Latitudes Green
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1316622-extra-heat-turning-northern-latitudes-green-study
Global Warming Pushing Trees North
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/trees-invade-arctic-tundra-130311.htm
Just like how global warming can help shipping and the ozone hole…
I wasn’t going to comment on Sandy and its depredations along the coast but after seeing article after article (or perhaps the exact same article hawked at many places, I never actually read any of it) babbling about how Sandy …
Ozone hole at smallest size in decades
Warm Antarctic temperatures help preserve UV-protecting layer
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346068/title/Ozone_hole_at_smallest_size_in_decades
Just like the thawing of the ice at the North Pole opens up huge lucrative shipping opportunities, the warming has resulted in a shrinking ozone …
Bottom trawling flattens seafloor
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bottom-trawling-20120905,0,6628384.story?track=rss
So, in addition to sterilizing the body of the ocean with drift nets, we are sterilizing the bottom as well. I wonder how much longer before all fishing crashes? Of course, my interest in …
Climate adaptation may be a family affair
Newborn reef fish can cope with changed water conditions if their parents have already adjusted
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341931/title/Climate_adaptation_may_be_a_family_affair
That this effect has been observed experimentally isn’t shocking or even unexpected to me. If life were …
Amazon may become greenhouse gas emitter
Rain forest could go from sink to source
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/337827/title/Amazon_may_become_greenhouse_gas_emitter
BTW, here is a link to the peer reviewed paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7381/full/nature10717.html
So, as I have mentioned before, blaming climate change exclusively on the burning of …
I found this interesting read here:
Science Settled: New Report- Hurricanes, Global Warming Not Linked
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/12/15/science_settled_new_report_hurricanes_global_warming_not_linked
and was more than a tiny bit skeptical with the whole “Science Settled” bit (largely because little is permanently settled in science and this …
I read this article on Science News (hopefully the link below will work for you) and felt motivated to comment on it.
Contrasting the concerns over climate and ozone loss
Why phasing out chlorofluorocarbons proved a much easier sell than …
Global drought may have changed less than thought
Simple models have overestimated drying over past 60 years
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346428/title/Global_drought_may_have_changed_less_than_thought
Once again there seems to be accumulating information that perhaps, just perhaps, we should take a collective deep breath and re-evaluate our …