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Written by Staff
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 11:53 |
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Global warming has been predicted by the IPCC to release long-sequestered carbon in Earth's peatlands to the atmosphere, possibly freeing enough of it at a sufficiently rapid rate to rival CO2 emissions from anthropogenic sources, with the end result of this scenario being a strong positive feedback to the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, which the IPCC contends will lead to further warming of the planet. But is this contention correct?
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Read more... [Peatlands]
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Written by Dennis Ambler
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Monday, 23 January 2012 17:14 |
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Dr Kerry Emanuel of MIT caused a storm recently, when he said in a Mother Jones video that, as a Republican scientist, he is almost ashamed to be an American, because not all Republican candidates have embraced Global Warming. An LA Times Op-Ed from January 5th 2012, portrayed him as the conservative scientist out to save the world.
In February last year, Dr Emanuel was playing the same “Republican scientist who believes in global warming” message in a radio interview for NPR. He brought in the usual mantras about the tobacco industry and a campaign of disinformation funded by vested interests, but failed to mention his own vested interest in the disaster insurance business.
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Read more... [In the Eye of the $torm - Kerry Emmanuel - The Non Political Scientist]
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Written by Robert Ferguson
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:44 |
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According to the EMP Commission, within 12 months of an EMP event between two thirds to 90% of the U.S. population will be dead.
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Read more... [Threats to the U.S. Power Grid: Implications for Policy]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 12:36 |
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Differences in pressure, or pressure gradients, cause wind. So, how does wind respond to rising temperatures? Several studies have addressed different aspects of this question in recent years.
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Read more... [How Does Wind Respond to Rising Temperatures?]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 12:34 |
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Computer simulations of global climate change have long indicated the world’s polar regions should show the first and severest signs of CO2-induced global warming. If the models are correct, these signs should be especially evident since the second half of the 20th century, when approximately two-thirds of the modern-era rise in atmospheric CO2 occurred and Earth’s temperature supposedly rose, in the view of most climate alarmists, to a level unprecedented in the entire past millennium. In this review, we examine historic trends in Arctic glacier behavior to determine the credibility of current climate models with respect to their polar predictions.
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Read more... [Historic Trends in Arctic Glacier Behavior]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 12:31 |
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Have tropical storms and hurricanes of the Atlantic Ocean become more numerous over the past century, in response to what climate alarmists describe as unprecedented global warming?
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Read more... [Frequency of Tropical Storms and Hurricanes of the Atlantic Ocean over the Past Century]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 12:20 |
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How does the frequency of occurrence of Atlantic basin hurricanes respond to increases in temperature?
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Read more... [Atlantic Basin Hurricane Response to Increase in Temperature]
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Written by Staff
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 12:12 |
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Global food security is one of the most pressing societal issues of our time. Based on food production databases assembled and maintained by the United Nations, I have identified the specific crops that supply 95% of the food needs of the world, six large regions into which the world may be divided, twenty sub-regions, and twenty-five individual countries of particular interest. I have then projected trends in the productivities of these key crops for each of these geographical areas to the year 2050, finding that expected advances in agricultural technology and expertise will significantly increase the food production potential of many countries and regions, but discovering that these advances will not increase production fast enough to meet the demands of the planet’s even faster-growing human population.
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Read more... [Estimates of Global Food Production in the Year 2050]
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Written by Dr. Timothy Ball
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011 12:47 |
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Many claim sea level is rising because of global warming and point to changes along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Sea level has risen since the end of the last Ice Age (Figure 1), but it has slowed dramatically in the last few hundred years. However, shoreline change is not just a function of water level change. Misdirection using fear and misinformation divert from and hinder human ability to adapt to an ever changing world.
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Read more... [When Sea Level Change is Not Sea Level Change]
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Written by SPPI
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Thursday, 03 November 2011 00:00 |
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A collection of papers from Science and Public Policy Institute.
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Read more... [SPPI Collection of Papers as of December 2011, UPDATED]
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