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Check the Links for Arctic & Antarctic Ice Info
They are in my favorite-links tab. (My note at the time: the ice at both poles is most definitely not melting.)
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Is There Evidence Linking CO2 to Warming?
Does it matter that there is not one piece of scientific evidence that links CO2 to warming in any sort of causality? Lots of conjecture, lots of statistical linkage — but no clear causal mechanism that I have been able to find. Think about it in common-sense terms: why would something
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Political 'Science' (via James Taranto)
A shared column on a House committee vote over whether to formally 'accept' that climate change is occurring. The argument Taranto makes — and that I found compelling — is that science proceeds by forming hypotheses and testing them, and that treating a hypothesis as an ideological doctrine or party
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Email to Bill Gates That I Sent
Bill — you said in your TED talk on TerraPower that there's been no scientific support for the climate skeptics, which may be true, but I have to ask: what is the real science supporting the CO2-forcing issue? My reading of the IPCC reports and papers is that they
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Solar Mischief
We would be extremely naive or arrogant to assume we have meaningful influence over the climate. We are the pimple on the back of the flea on the elephant. Get over it. The article
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The Straight Facts About CO2 and AGW
A long compilation I assembled of competing explanations of CO2's role as a greenhouse gas, from the simple 'blanket' analogy to a more detailed treatment of infrared absorption bands. The thread I found most interesting is the saturation argument: that CO2 absorbs IR only in narrow
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CO2 Sequestration
A satirical proposal. In the wake of the EPA classifying CO2 as a harmful gas, I propose we sequester it at one of the most abundant sources on the planet: oxygen-breathing mammals. A simple disposable mask that combines exhaled CO2 into inorganic calcium carbonate, with a dye to show when
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Real Analysis of Climategate
A link to a long but thorough analysis of the Climategate emails and how they relate to the science behind AGW.
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The AGW Debate
Why is this debate about beliefs? Anthropogenic global warming is either true or not, and science — not belief — should be the judge. What the public 'believes' is largely irrelevant to the underlying fact. Scale is routinely ignored in these debates: even if AGW is real, almost nothing we
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Human-Caused Climate Change? I Think Not
A pointer to a climate-skeptic site I followed at the time. (My note then: these folks are debunking the global-warming 'religion.' For balance: the site's claims run against the scientific consensus.)
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The Sun Is Important
The Sun streams magnetic particles at us on a direct route, arriving every eight minutes. Do we really think that has no effect on our climate? The article