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Rob Miller, managing director of the Rhoda Group, gave a talk called A Really Inconvenient Truth last year at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, California. In this clip he discusses the four scenarios of action vs. inaction in the face of climate change. He also talks about how many of the projections from the IPCC’s fourth assessment report are conservative given empirical evidence of current climate change. At the end of his discussion, (the full lecture is available on Fora.tv) Miller offers a way forward for individuals and business in grappling with the risk and reality of global warming.
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The UK’s Sunday Times recently retracted claims made in an article published last January by Jonathan Leake, a writer who is no stranger of climate-change-denying controversy. Leake’s claims, says the times retraction, that non-peer-reviewed data based on unscientific sources influenced the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report regarding climactic impacts on the Amazon Rainforest – what Leake characterized at the time as “Amazongate – were completely false. What the retraction doesn’t say is that Leake knew it wasn’t accurate when he submitted it for publication.
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Facing off in California’s Senate race with incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer this November is Carly Fiorina, whose biggest claim to fame is nearly driving HP into the ground. Earlier this month Fiorina made the rookie-like mistake (made by newbies and veterans alike) of saying something offensive, inappropriate, or stupid near an open microphone; in her case by having good schoolgirl fun with Boxer’s hairdo. How “yesterday” indeed.
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For many, it’s time that climate scientists took off their white coats and stood up to the ongoing broadside against their work and the near-constant drumbeat from right-wing pundits and politicians that have added derision of global warming to their conservative litmus test, disavowing anyone who might dare take seriously the work of the climate science community.
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with permission)
Climate skeptics found plenty of reasons to dig out their dreary critiques this week, between the continuing controversy over erroneous reports from the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the record-breaking snowfall on the East Coast. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and his family built an igloo which Inhofe then dubbed “Al Gore’s house” in the streets of Washington, D.C. The Virginia GOP ran ads attacking the state’s Democratic representatives for their support of cap-and-trade and urged voters to “tell them how much global warming you get this weekend.” And skeptics across the world claimed that the smaller mistakes in IPCC reports undermined the organization’s broad conclusions on climate change science.
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More CO2, more heat. More heat, more CO2. In its essence, that is the relationship of the positive feedback loop thought to fuel an rising global temperatures and CO2 emissions in the atmosphere.
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Chris Mooney is the author of Unscientific America, a Washington correspondent for Seed magazine, and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. Monney focuses on issues concerning the interplay of science and politics, and is also author of the bestselling book The Republican War on Science.
Continue Reading Chris Mooney, Author of Unscientific America, Talks at COP15
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Shortly after I arrived on the ground here in Copenhagen, I heard reports from back home that erstwhile vice-presidential candidate and early-retiring Alaska governor Sarah Palin was urging president Barack Obama to “boycott” the COP15 climate talks in the wake of stolen emails from climate scientists and East Anglia University and the apparently heavily-funded and obviously conveniently timed effort to characterize the content of those emails as “proof” that the entire body of climate science is suspect.
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Senator James Inhofe should be praised for his tenacious pursuit of climate change denial. For Inhofe, the ends justify the means in his relentless pursuit of denying even the possibility of risk from human-caused climate change.
Continue Reading Senator Inhofe: Tilting Toward Windmills
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