climate

I read that it is because oxygen and nitrogen absorb solar energy. Nitrogen I can understand, but oxygen? What exactly am I missing here?

Rajendra Pachauri raises more eyebrows with raunchy environmental novel Telegraph (UK) :eek:

I could not find if this had been posted previously; but I found it very useful. A Few Things Ill Considered: How to talk to a climate Skeptic

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the canard about how all the scientists in the 70s was saying the earth was cooling, and how they now say it's warming - can't they get their act together? Here's a YouTube video my Potholer54, a retired Australian reporter who specializes in science...

Could anyone fill me in on the model and explanation of runaway global warming? What are the positive feedback cycles that would cause increased temperature? Ice cap loss screwing with albedo, methane release from clathrate deposits, what else? How much difference would negative feedback...

Well I know a couple of co-workers are out at sea sailing near Antarctica on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. Here's a link to the main page to find out details about the research cruise: http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/outreach/nathaniel_b._palmer and it turns out they are posting a blog of sorts so...

I guess I'm being to "tedius" so I'll simplify this for those of you who can't read more than a few words at a time. If only human activity can cause climate change (the AGW stance), the implication is that climate is otherwise static. Yet AGWists claim that it is "deniers" who believe that...

Just read a Danish article in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten which states that: My translation. The article goes on to say that climate models had only predicted that the Artic would become ice-free in some 30-40 years, but that if this unexpectedly faster trend continues, the Artic could be...

I read this today and thought it was worth reading, especially in the context of the debates that occur on this forum where two diametrically opposed and entrenched groups have complete certainty about their own views - despite the fact that all of us are a gaggle of amateur know-nothings...

Does anyone know what conditions would be on Earth if the geosystem did not have the large-scale tempering influence of life? Would it runaway to Venus or Mars-like conditions, or would it stay equable for life on its surface?

I know one thing this forum doesn't need is yet another thread on global warming. Yet this is an opinion I've been touting for some time, and I feel I don't want to derail any other thread by putting it out there. Firstly, I am of the opinion -- based on what I've read -- that human behaviour...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/murdoch-uturn-on-climate/2006/11/07/1162661648576.html It will be intersting to see if this is reflected in his news outlets. IIRC, foxnews has been a sponsor of Junk Science, an AGW sceptic site

1 Set a target for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions based on the latest science. 2 Use that target to set an annual carbon cap, which falls on the ski-jump trajectory. Then use the cap to set a personal carbon ration. 3 Introduce a new set of building regulations 4 Ban the sale of...

From here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5236482.stm Does the chicken little type of reporting hurt the cause?

Just posting this for those that might be interested. The show is about 27min long. Windows Media or Real Player. The link to the show can be found on the upper right of the page. It was a good listen even though none of those interviewed are skeptical of AGW. The article is a synopsis of the...

Huh? You mean Bush was actually going to sign the treaty? :p

Anyone who thinks that all the findings of the Hockey Stick study are adequately replicated should read this, a fact based web page with links to the sources of what the scientists are actually saying in response to the Congressional inquiry...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest faster than ever, putting world water supplies at risk, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. Chinese scientists researching the world's tallest peak, which China refers to by its Tibetan name...

Every now and then I read something that I feel I have to share. The following was a speech given by David Henderson, a globally pre-eminant economist, who in recent years has highlighted some glaring shortcomings in the analysis produced for and used by the IPCC. His thoughts highlight wide...

"David Bellamy's inaccurate and selective figures on glacier shrinkage are a boon to climate change deniers." The article is available online at: Junk science

Two new studies conclude that even if humankind takes dramatic action now to curb global warming, the world will continue to heat up and sea levels will rise for centuries. The reports, in Science magazine, underscore the difficulties in dealing with a worldwide environmental issue...

GLOBAL warming will cause the bottom layers of Scotland’s deepest freshwater lochs to stagnate and rise in temperature, threatening their sensitive ecology, The Scotsman has learned. In particular the survival of the Arctic char, one of our least known and most endangered fish species, could...

Water crisis fear as glaciers melt March 14, 2005 GLOBAL warming is causing Himalayan glaciers to rapidly retreat, threatening to cause water shortages for hundreds of millions of people who rely on glacier-dependent rivers in China, India and Nepal, the World Wide Fund For Nature WWF warned...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have found that deforestation along the Amazon River in South America was reducing rainfall and causing climate change in the region. A study in the Amazon found that a loss of forests meant less water evaporated back into the atmosphere, resulting in...

Thousands of species could be lost if action is not taken to halt global warming, a conservation charity warns. John Lanchbery, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, says wildlife is already being affected. It will take very little further climate change to "catastrophically"...

It sounds insignificant alongside the Indian Ocean tsunami, yet an almost imperceptible annual rise in the world's oceans may pose a huge threat to ports, coasts and islands by 2100. The leaders of 37 small island states are meeting in Mauritius to discuss an early warning system to protect...

One could argue that it is up to the individual to be responsible for their check writing and I would agree. But the law will not really do anything constructive except to fleece billions from the poorest of citizens. At the same time Banks are putting more holds and longer delays on deposits...

Singapore: The weather predictions for Asia in 2050 read like a script from a doomsday movie. Except many climatologists and green groups fear they will come true unless there is a concerted global effort to rein in greenhouse gas emissions. In the decades to come, Asia, home to more than half...

Global warming has had little noticeable impact in Washington, D.C. Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6433717/ The evidence just keeps stacking up. No more of that John Daley looney rubbish, please.