The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."
China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
Interestingly enough, the article ponders whether another ice age is on our doorstep.
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ICECAP.Well, it won't be your resource if you think we're burning our planet away, but it works for you fairly well if you want a reasoned, unhysterical look at global climate change.
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Global Warming: No Consensus On Human Causes
Newsweek Debunks Itself on Global Warming
A pretty extensive, reasoned look at global warming, examining the science behind the
hysteria hype concerns as well as delving in to a handful of common questions. It's a long read complete with pretty slides, so buckle up.
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Man-Made Global Warming: Bunk
So says Reid A. Bryson, one of the fathers of climatology:
"Climate’s always been changing and it’s been changing rapidly at various times, and so something was making it change in the past," he told us in an interview this past winter. "Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?"
"All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd," Bryson continues. "Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air."
Other interesting notes in the article -- that "Greenland" had that name for a particular reason as Norse civilization and farmlands are starting to emerge from under the melting ice, and that water vapor is much more efficient in trapping Earth's heat than carbon dioxide is.
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It's worse than you thought. Looks like our SUV's are causing
global warming on Mars also:
Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.
We are so powerful we can take down the climate of any planet in our solar system.
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Krauthammer On GW Hypocrisy
The rich defend their global warming hypocrisy through the purchase of indulgences:
Leo and Al then portentously announced that for the first time ever, the Academy Awards ceremony had gone green. What did that mean? Solar panels in the designer gowns? It turns out that the Academy neutralized the evening's "carbon footprint" by buying carbon credits. That means it sent money to a "carbon broker," who promised, after taking his cut, to reduce carbon emissions somewhere on the planet equivalent to what the stars spewed into the atmosphere while flying in on their private planes.In other words, the rich reduce their carbon output by not one ounce. But drawing on the hundreds of millions of net worth in the Kodak Theatre, they pull out lunch money to buy ecological indulgences. The last time the selling of pardons was prevalent--in a predecessor religion to environmentalism called Christianity--Martin Luther lost his temper and launched the Reformation.
Interesting stuff.
Read the whole thing.
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