October 10, 2013 – 11:03 am
Are you ready for yet another climate tipping point article fable? (Washington Post) Locations around the globe will soon reach climatic tipping points, with some in tropical regions — home to most of the world’s biodiversity — feeling the first impacts of unprecedented eras of elevated temperatures as soon as seven years from now, according […]
October 3, 2013 – 2:55 pm
Today’s scary, or, is that, unhinged? story made possible because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle to work today, and might have actually used hair spray (Reuters) The world’s oceans are under greater threat than previously believed from a “deadly trio” of global warming, declining oxygen levels and acidification, an international study said on Thursday. […]
September 28, 2013 – 8:37 am
Funny thing about society nowadays: those who are shrill and unhinged, throwing rhetorical bombs, are listed to more than people who are rational and calm, at least in politics and in the media, hence, those who are shrill and unhinged feel emboldened to be more shrill and emboldened. Hence, we end up with things like […]
September 27, 2013 – 7:44 am
(USA Today photo of an evil power plant in Sofia, Bulgaria, which dares use coal and puts out steam) The last IPCC report, AR4, stated that it was “very likely” that they were full of bat guano, er, that Mankind was at fault for the tiny bit of warming (mentioned in the AP report) since […]
September 23, 2013 – 8:45 am
Barring that, they’ll simply make up excuses for why landfalling hurricane activity has fallen like a stone since the start of the 2006 season (NOLA) The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was kicked off with dire warnings from the National Hurricane Center and Colorado State University climatologists Philip Klotzbach and William Gray that there would be […]
September 10, 2013 – 4:30 pm
Alarmists being alarmist (Climate Central) Higher temperatures, drastic changes in rainfall, lower productivity, more blight and disease − these are just some of the expected consequences of climate change in Brazil if the projections of 345 scientists who make up the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (PBMC) prove true. They predict that if present trends in greenhouse […]
September 7, 2013 – 3:40 pm
Cause, it’s for the kids or something (Guardian) Australia, New Zealand and the heads of state of 13 other Pacific states this week called for the phase-out of greenhouse gas pollution and acknowledged current efforts to tackle climate change are insufficient. The Majuro declaration for Climate Leadership is surprisingly strong considering these types of documents […]
August 30, 2013 – 12:03 pm
Some are Warmists, some are Alarmists. Either way, most of them are bat-shit crazy (KCET) In the last few days an alarming (ie, batshit crazy) article making the rounds on social media has revived the idea that our species might be doing itself in by changing the global climate. The article, by vice.com’s Nathan Curry, […]
August 29, 2013 – 4:02 pm
Over at the NY Times, which is known for allowing both sides to provide viewpoints (sic), Warmist Maggie Koerth-Baker is super concerned about what hotcoldwetdry might do to the insurance industry In March 1947, a winter of heavy snowfall followed by a quick thaw and torrents of rain swelled rivers throughout England and Wales. Over […]
August 24, 2013 – 3:42 pm
Let’s first take a moment to briefly describe what Warmists mean by “climate change”: their view is that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the warming that occurred since (insert date here based on whatever point they’re trying to make), and it is mostly fossil fuels that cause it, along with too many humans. Said warming […]
