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Renewable energy advocates eye break from climate change debate Washington (Platts)–16Nov2010/712 pm EST/012 GMT Renewable energy advocates, now facing Republican control of the House of Representatives next year, are decoupling from efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and retooling some … Continue reading →

Dire messages about global warming could backfire and actually increase skepticism about climate change among the general public, according to a new study by a University of California at Berkeley social psychologist. The study, which will be published in the … Continue reading →

Earlier in the year, the warm El Niño weather at the Vancouver Olympics was being widely touted as evidence of global warming. This winter, La Niña is about to hit Vancouver hard, with temperatures 10°C below normal. http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html The forecast … Continue reading →

Even assuming the most optimistic scenario, snowpack in the Tahoe Basin will decline by half by 2100. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?entry_id=77186 Instead of issuing the ski report for 2100, why don’t they issue one for 2010? They won’t do that, because it will … Continue reading →

http://www.foxbusiness.com/ In the meantime, California and the UK have well over 100 million people who completely depend on fossil fuels to survive from day to day. Few people would miss either of these guys if they went off to a … Continue reading →

NOAA has seven tide gauges around the Indian Ocean, including Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Yemen, Malaysia and Thailand. The average sea level rise rate is 0.59 mm/year, with all gauges reporting below the IPCC minimum forecast of 1.9 mm/year. http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.shtml All … Continue reading →

Stroeve explains that highly reliable data on the extent of Arctic sea ice has been collected since 1978. From then until now, she has found clear evidence of a 30-year melting trend, which, she says, “cannot be easily explained away … Continue reading →

We cannot expect that the public will support change without understanding the reasons for it. But we cannot browbeat our way to a broader understanding of the science behind climate change and the benefits of taking action. We need to … Continue reading →

h/t to Joe Romm NCDC shows that recent warming is identical to an earlier warming, when CO2 was much lower (310 ppm) and increasing slowly (3 ppm / decade.) The graph below overlays the earlier warming (red) on the recent … Continue reading →

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