Real Climate Science

Like a real-life Marvel comics character.

“Professor Oreskes has turned vilified scientists into the heroes they deserve to be,” says John Abraham, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. She’s performing a service regarding global warming by showing “how a few organized and influential people were able to confuse the country long after the science was settled,” he says.

Oreskes, a professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, acknowledges that she’s trying to save the world. Earlier, though, her goal was simpler. She wanted to understand scientists by studying their past, in terms of both their findings and their funding.

http://www.csmonitor.com/

Julia’s tax is showing immediate benefits in delivering near record snowfall.

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They must be referring to the downwards trend in landfalling hurricanes and severe tornadoes which NOAA has documented.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/impacts/signs/index.html

Ice melts really fast when the temperature is below freezing

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/PAWS_atmos_recent.html

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has estimated the scale of the impact of global climate change on the country. To date, global warming has brought only substantial benefits to the country.

http://abc.az/eng/news/main/56061.html

http://www.arctic.io/observations/8/2011-07-02/4-N84.819532-E115.903219

Changes in Arctic ice between July 2 and July 17. The desperate polar bears are having to swim through three metre thick ice.

http://www.summitcamp.org/status/weather/index?period=month

Can someone count the number of melt days (over 0C)  in the interior of the Greenland ice sheet this summer? Thanks in advance – I’m too busy to do it myself.

Queen Margrethe’s statement that ‘you can not change the climate’ gets a cold shoulder from several environmental organizations.

Both WWF and Greenpeace will now right with the queen during a tour of Greenland said about climate change: “there is nothing to do ‘.

– You can not change the climate when it cooks up though. It must look in his eyes, said the monarch among others.

But it is not true, says Greenpeace:

Do not know what she thought of
– I do not know what the Queen thought of when she says you can not do anything, says press officer for Greenpeace’s climate program, Christina Res.

– You can fortunately be doing something about climate change, and preferably sooner the better, she says.

http://translate.google.dk/

h/t to Ole Heinrich

One year with unusual erosion proves a trend.

2009 winter coastal erosion linked to climate change

By SUZANNE BOHAN
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 07/18/2011 01:43:09 AM PDT
Updated: 07/18/2011 01:43:10 AM PDT

The storms that battered the West Coast during the winter of 2009-10 eroded record chunks of shoreline, and more will likely disappear as the changing climate brings more such powerful storm seasons, scientists warn in a new study.

Pacific waves were 20 percent stronger on average than any year since 1997 and higher-than-usual sea levels drove them further inland, tearing away on average one-third m ore land in California.

The state’s beaches were “eroded to often unprecedented levels,” said Patrick Barnard, a coastal geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who led the research.

“It’s the kind of winter we may experience more frequently” as global temperatures rise, he said.

He acknowledged that the study encompassed five to 13 years of data, depending upon the beach. The researchers studied sections of the coastline, using GPS, buoys and airborne laser mapping between Seattle and San Diego.

But given what he called a startling lack of coastline studies, Barnard said the data they gathered “is the best we have. There’s nothing like it, and it covers a really broad area.”

Barnard was the lead author of the study, published by the American Geophysical Union on July 9 in Geophysical Research Letters. Researchers with five other institutions participated.

With little more than a decade of data, “we couldn’t unequivocally” say this portends the future, he said.

“But there’s no indication that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel anytime soon, given the current trends that we’re observing.”

http://www.montereyherald.com/state/ci_18498974

During an economic depression, it is always a good idea to force employers to purchase an expensive, worthless, imaginary commodity.

On July 10, the Australian government outlined a national carbon pricing scheme to tax greenhouse gas emissions at $23AUD per tonne, while the Canadian government has set emissions targets but has yet to announce a plan for decarbonizing economic growth.

Canada’s lack of a plan to tackle carbon intensity in our economy presents a risk to this country’s future prosperity.

http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/