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Speed of climate change made graphic

Posted on 2016-09-13 by GarySeptember 14, 2016
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Below is yet another notable installment of the XKCD web comic that is very much worth a look. It addresses the far-too-common misconception that since the world's temperature has changed before, global warming is no big deal and possibly just … Continue reading →

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Guardian columnist laments fossil fuel influence on climate change coverage

Posted on 2016-08-22 by GaryAugust 22, 2016
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George Manbiot's succinct August 3 piece in The Guardian takes note of how well-to-do fossil fuel interests continue to promote misinformation about global warming in news coverage. As most of us are well aware, last year was the warmest ever … Continue reading →

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Checking Cruz's claim on the term "climate change"

Posted on 2016-03-01 by GaryJune 3, 2016
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As previously noted, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz likes to claim that climate scientists have in "the past two or three years" switched to talking about climate change rather than global warming. In reality, of course, both terms have been … Continue reading →

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Cruz versus former Chief Oceanographer of the Navy

Posted on 2016-01-25 by GaryFebruary 25, 2016
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As I've mentioned before (link), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has said some seriously absurd and misinformed things about global warming. Here's another brief example from a Senate hearing in which Cruz questions David Titley, a retired rear admiral whose duties … Continue reading →

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Record drought implicated in Syrian civil war

Posted on 2015-11-17 by GaryNovember 17, 2015
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A recent paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that a record drought in 2007 through 2010, combined with poor agricultural practices and environmental problems, led to "widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming … Continue reading →

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Time magazine: "Most Non-Climate Scientists Agree on Global Warming Too"

Posted on 2015-09-29 by GarySeptember 28, 2015
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You will occasionally run into people who think that climate scientists are lying about climate change in order to get grant money. This reflects a misunderstanding of the grant process, not to mention overlooking the fact that fossil fuel interests … Continue reading →

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John Boehner is right about Ted Cruz

Posted on 2015-09-28 by GarySeptember 30, 2015
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On Sunday's edition of the CBS news program Face the Nation (transcript), Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) was asked about Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and the Speaker said, "I'll refer you to my remark at a fund-raiser I … Continue reading →

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To-do list for the world

Posted on 2015-09-28 by GaryOctober 1, 2015
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A few days ago I posted a four-minute video from John Green talking about the UN's Millennium Development Goals, an ambitious proposal from the year 2000 to address a number of major world problems in just 15 years. You might … Continue reading →

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Farming with salt water

Posted on 2015-08-18 by GarySeptember 30, 2015
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One of the clearest consequences of global warming is the rise is sea level. For now this is being driven mainly by thermal expansion of warming oceans, but the melting of glaciers is contributing as well, and that's almost certainly … Continue reading →

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Alas, another example of naïveté about climate change

Posted on 2015-05-27 by GaryNovember 8, 2015
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A friend of mine recently drew my attention to last year's March 2 episode of the Prickly City comic strip, which you can view here. (Incidentally, it appears that this website, GoComics, lets you subscribe to a variety of strips, … Continue reading →

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