Seeing Forest Biodiversity for the Trees ScienceNOW Climate change may not be as serious a threat to tropical forest biodiversity as previously thought, according to a new study. The question of whether rising carbon dioxide levels act as a forest fertilizer remains unresolved, however.
The Great Flooding From Beneath the Sea ScienceNOW In the age of the dinosaurs, great inland seas kept the climate balmy and redirected the course of evolution by opening huge new niches.
Critics say U.S. biofuel funding too small Washington Times Christa Bowers, of Greenhouse Gas Services, explained wind power yesterday at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference. (The Bush administration will invest $18.4 million in biofuel projects
Senate approves bill designed to curb global warming Boston Globe The bill is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts by the year 2020 to 20 percent below 1990 levels.
What we can learn from the Zimmerman Telegram and the benefits of eavesdropping on our enemies.
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March 07, 2008
With the recent passing of Fred Seitz, an early challenger of Global Warming, and somewhat controversial figure, I thought it might be appropriate to try to bring our readers up to date.
On what has become an increasingly hot topic.
Contrary to recent news coming out of Norway, an American Vice President didn't invent Global Warming; The Greenhouse Effect was discovered in the late 19th century. And Global Warming, though it didn't have the cache then, must have occurred to one of the alpha leader Tyrannosauruses or Wooly Mammals, in their respective ice ages.
And now, just when you thought you were ready to embrace Global Warming, we have this disquieting news.
No less an authority than Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, one of Pope Benedict XVI most trusted advisors, has issued a startling warning stating that the Anti-Christ is about to begin his rule on Earth, and that Global Warming will be the one single issue that will unite the world behind it.
Maybe Global Warming should be called Global Warning.
I guess we should feel fortunate there are still people fighting against the dual threat of Global Warming, who think, like noted physicist Siegfried Frederick Singer that Global Warming has no scientific basis and a political football to boot.
So, in the face of all this, what's a rational fellow like myself, and you, the rational community, supposed to do about all this conflicting information about fossil fuel, hydrocarbons, ozone layer holes, saving the world and destroying it at the same time?
I do know that, despite the cause junkies and the profiteers making money off of it, Global Warming is, at least bringing our global footprint on the environment into focus - and that's a good thing.
The rest of it all, I admit, is a bit murky. Sometimes I think that the best sign that intelligent life exists outside of this planet is that none of it has ever tried to contact us.
Share the Eye:
An Inconvenient Movie Artvoice Like it or not, this debut of a retooled Al Gore seems destined to be one of those cultural moments, like the introduction of tailfins or Italian names for coffee.
Cooler Heads Coalition globalwarming.org Welcome to Globalwarming.org, the website of the Cooler Heads Coalition, an international group of non-profit organizations dedicated to smarter thinking on the subject of global warming and climate change.
Testimony of Fred Singer Nationalcenter.org My name is Fred Singer. I am Professor emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and the founder and president of The Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) in Fairfax, Virginia, a non-partisan, non-profit research group of independent scientists.
Global Warming Petition Petition Project We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals.
still thinking about today...
Who do you trust on Global Warming?
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christina said...
The time has come to let go of greed and selfishness, and move into alternative means that bring harmony and health to the planet and the people.. for example.. Tesla energy, or to incorperate the intellegent methods of Norway, using the waste for fuel.. wind : solar: water turbines: organic uses. for food. what about these pesticides that are killing the honey bee's, or even HAARP...All of these are with selfish motives for power and money.. Money can be a wonderful Blessing.. when used for the good of all. in our country, we can afford to have health care for all and top education for the youth..this focus on War and Power for selfish reasons is barberic. LO-BAR-DO..CJ
Calliq said...
In saying that there's "conflicting information" about global warming, you're implying that there's good reason to consider either that a) global warming isnt' happening; or b) it's not "man-made," and therefore no man-made solution is called for. This doesn't even merit being called a bad argument -- it's just silly. What profiteers are you referring to? (Anyone who comes close to the oil companies?) It's too bad that you've given more publicity to Singer, who's probably one of the most popular speakers for groups like the John Birch Society. He displays his own scientific ineptitude by arguing that there's no scientific basis for global warming. (There's plenty of data, and plenty of different interpretations; he disagrees with interpretations of the data, and any scientist worth his salt wouldn't paint such a disagreement in a "right/wrong" fashion.) And to say it's a "political football" -- I don't even know what that means. Yes, what to do about global warming has and will continue to result in political arguments. That's the point of politics -- to argue about significant issues, and if there's consensus that something has gone awry, the argument is about how to fix it.
Perhaps Calliq should develop a slight sense of humor on the subject. I assume he or she doesn't believe in the Anti-Christ either.
StopBob said...
Well, Peterman, you were ahead of the curve. Several years ago I remember a piece of copy you wrote about Poplin Pants and the End of the Little Ice Age. I’ll quote a couple of paragraphs:
“On a stopover in Switzerland last summer, I noticed that the chocolate truffles displayed in the windows of a ritzy confectionary shop were melting.
I was glad I’d brought along poplin pants for the southern leg of my trip.
The temperature that day was 101 degrees F; it eventually hit 106.7 degrees, that hottest it’s been in the Alps for half a millennium.
The Little Ice Age, it appears, is over.
The Little Ice Age is one of those things I just recently became aware of, even though you and I have been living through the tail end of it all our lives.
A review of 240 scientific studies (of ice cores, tree rings, coral reefs, ect.) has found that after a balmy Medieval Warm Period, when fig trees were blooming in Germany, a long cold spell descended on the world; it only began to loosen its grip around 1900.
Nobody knows how high the mercury will go (1250 AD was much warmer than today), but I can predict a future for these pants.
I've tried to take a rational approach to the "global warming" issue. I think warming and cooling of the planet is a natural cycle. Are we in a warming phase? Maybe. I do think that people get climate mixed up with weather. Climate is global. Weather is local. And the local weather announcer on t.v. can't get it right.
Whenever there is research on the environment someone had to pay for the study. When you discover who wrote the check you can usually guess the scientific conclusions of the research. You can't even trust the government. In the 60's we bought a "used French colonial war" and recently a war against Iraq based on government "research".
Global Warming? - political. Local weather? - carry an umbrella just in case! Or better yet just take along your J. Peterman Duster.
Calliq said...
Calliq didn't realize that JP was joking. After all, until recently, the U.S. exec branch (read: Bush and Cheney) didn't allow that the scientific evidence was clear. And they censored/quashed govt. reports that had been plain on how serious a problem it is. Unfortunately, some of the naysayers hold powerful posts, and serve big, serious constituencies (oil companies, big farma, etc.)
Certainly I'm not the only one who didn't discover the nuggets of humor within. ExPat seems to take this seriously, and unfortunately believes that every scientist has been bought.
ExPat: "You can't even trust the government." Say it isn't so!