Monthly Archives: April 2011

Earlier I reported on a new paper which says that sea level rise rates have doubled since the last century. Even the IPCC graph shows nothing of the sort. Climate science seems to be dominated by people willing to say … Continue reading →

We are a full half a standard deviation below the mean, with extent dropping by  a minuscule amount every day. http://arctic-roos.org/

The paper confirms that the ocean has been rising in fits and starts since the 19th century. And both the tide gauges and satellites show that the rate of sea-level rise appears to have accelerated in the early 1990s, so … Continue reading →

Konrad Steffen, the Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), provides an analysis of Greenland’s ice sheet. He predicts that the Earth’s sea level will continue to rise to at least one and a half meters … Continue reading →

http://www.fastcompany.com/17

This must include Freeman Dyson. This begins to explain why so many conservatives do not believe in global warming and science in general. When you have an unshakable belief in your own little world — that cow farts are responsible … Continue reading →

2011 : “I want to embrace the country that I love. The country that I know is positive and fair and there’s so much of that out there, that’s it very easy to kind of push the other stuff aside … Continue reading →

ROFLMAO http://content.usatoday.com/

h/t to Anthony for finding the NOAA site. Now we aren’t dependent on the nearly useless University of Colorado site. http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SeaLevelRise/LSA_SLR_timeseries_global.php

Several lines of research now indicate that a 3-foot global rise by 2100 is a plausible scenario, though some scientists forecast a smaller rise. In other words, what was once a problem for our great great-grandchildren is one our children … Continue reading →