Climate Change

The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic – Richard A Muller

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Richard A. Muller has an article in today’s New York Times about his conversion from Climate change denier to acceptance of the reality of man made climate change. Who? He is a noted American professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and is also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He explains his conversion like this … Three … Read more

Dramatic ice melt in Greenland … should we start to panic?

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There are stories now circulating in the media regarding a very dramatic ice melt it Greenland during the past week. As reported by the BBC … Scientists said the “unprecedented” melting took place over a larger area than has been detected in three decades of satellite observation. Melting even occurred at Greenland’s coldest and highest … Read more

Study predicts imminent irreversible planetary collapse

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Some scary stuff is on the horizon …  we’re on a much worse collision course with Mother Nature than currently thought. In Approaching a state-shift in Earth’s biosphere, a paper just published in Nature, the authors, whose expertise spans a multitude of disciplines, suggest our planet’s ecosystems are careenng towards an imminent, irreversible collapse. The … Read more

Telegraph’s Dellingpole, the Climate Change Denier indulges himself in personal attack on leading scientist

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James Delingpole, the Telegraph’s resident Climate Change Denial kook, has used his column today to launch a personal attack upon Sir Paul Nurse (pictured here). One wonders what Sir Paul did to be highlighted like this. Could it be the fact the Sir Paul won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine … nope. … Read more

“Skeptic” vs “Denier” – I got it wrong … really wrong.

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I wrote a brief post the other day entitled “The Climate Change Skeptics are still as crazy as ever“. Yikes … bad move … really bad move on my part ….  and so a few folks quite rightly pointed out that this is a highly inappropriate term to use. OK, lets clarify why. There are … Read more

The Climate Change Skeptics are still as crazy as ever

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James Delingpole, the Telegraph anti-science nut who claims he is right about everything, has an article in which he claims … Professor Richard Lindzen is one of the world’s greatest atmospheric physicists: perhaps the greatest. What he doesn’t know about the science behind climate change probably isn’t worth knowing. But even if you weren’t aware … Read more