Monthly Archives: June 2011

Global Warming: It’s Fat People’s Fault If the mail I get from readers is any indication, the issue of climate change is a dastardly conspiracy to “redistribute global wealth,” as one memorably explained to me. Now greenhouse deniers can imagine … Continue reading →

Earlier this week, Cryosat released data showing that Arctic ice is much thicker than the slush in the PIOMAS computer model. Here is a first person account from a Norwegian who attempted to canoe to the pole. After 13 days … Continue reading →

Global warming, unlike religion, is not to be taken on faith. The so-called skeptics or deniers should not say their skepticism or denial is based on nonbelief. Global warming has nothing to do with belief or nonbelief. Global warming, or … Continue reading →

The next four or five weeks are the hottest of the year in Nuuk, Greenland. The farming forecast looks ideal. I can hear the tall corn crackling. High temperatures look like Boulder, Colorado in February.

South Greenland’s chief agricultural advisor, Kenneth Hoeg, envisions a world where all of southern Greenland could have commercially viable vegetable farms and forests. On a recent visit to Qanasiassat he said “If it gets warmer, a large part of southern … Continue reading →

This is the southern tip of Greenland on June 23, 2011. No one is doing any farming here. The ground is covered with snow. The glaciers are not melting down. Sea ice is drifting down the coast. How many stories … Continue reading →

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Is there a ‘we’ in climate change? Or just an ‘I’? Al Gore in a new article claims that controlling climate change is a collective struggle for Americans. Instead, it may be an individual opportunity for entrepreneurs. http://www.csmonitor.com/

They told us during the Olympics last year that global warming had ruined skiing in British Columbia. http://www.bclocalnews.com/sports/124311869.html h/t to Dave G

An Aussie ski season filled with promise http://www.news.com.au/ h/t to Dave G