April 13, 2012 – 3:16 pm
How do we know? Because someone stepped outside of their computer model room and did that sciencey investigation stuff (Brisbane Times) Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change are unlikely to mean the end of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, according to a new scientific study. The Cell Press journal Current Biology this […]
April 7, 2012 – 7:37 am
All because you decided to use your ice maker and dish washer (Grist) If rabid environmental activists don’t get their way, the rest of us might end up rabid too. This year’s drought is leading to a huge jump in rabies rates in stricken states, and climate change will only make it worse. The heat […]
March 28, 2012 – 7:49 am
Today’s doom story (Sustainable Business) Scientists keep beating the drum, hoping the world will wake up to the fact that climate change is a real, non-partisan, non-advanced vs development country issue. Dubbing the phenomenal recent explosion in human activity, “The Great Acceleration,” leading scientists say time is running out to minimize the risk of setting […]
March 26, 2012 – 4:55 pm
Vampire bats, that is (The Daily Texan) With the emergence of warm spring weather comes the return of the Mexican Freetail bats under Congress Bridge and the remote possibility that a feared and foreign species of bat could make its way into Texas. The increase in global climate temperatures has raised concerns about the vampire […]
March 20, 2012 – 10:34 am
Warmists are breathless LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) – Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), which for years maintained that 1998 was the hottest year, has published new data showing warmer years since, further undermining a sceptic view of stalled global warming. The findings could helpfully move the focus from whether the world is warming due to […]
March 14, 2012 – 1:31 pm
Scary story time! The Hockey Schtick catches the latest about spiders from ABC News. After discussing a person getting a horrific bite from a Brown Recluse (which they later go on to say “it could have been something else”) in Kansas, we get The Daily Mail sounded an alarm about a University of Kansas study […]
March 10, 2012 – 8:09 am
That is, if the “international community doesn’t Do Something”, like give them vast amounts of redistributed money (MSNBC) Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji. Kiribati President Anote Tong told The Associated Press on Friday that […]
March 6, 2012 – 12:33 pm
Warmists just really can’t help themselves (IBT) Up to 900 species of tropical birds could go extinct by the year 2100 because of climate change, according to a new study. The expected average temperature increase of 6.3 degree Fahrenheit (3.5 degree Celsius) could extinguish hundreds of bird species that struggled to adapt to habitat loss […]
March 2, 2012 – 6:11 pm
They just can’t help themselves (The State Column) A newly released study finds that less snow in the Arctic could result in more snow in the U.S. According to a study released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. could face colder and more snowy winters as northern trade winds […]
February 27, 2012 – 9:01 am
Sadly, this isn’t a repeat of the previous fantasies, this is actually a new story proclaiming that someone charging their iPhone will cause all manners of bad geologic things to happen (UK Guardian) The idea that a changing climate can persuade the ground to shake, volcanoes to rumble and tsunamis to crash on to unsuspecting […]
