01 Dec 2008 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.
Climate Ark
Carbon-BasedClimate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate

Results From Today's Google Alert
[Global Warming] Re: Another reason to limit CO2
By End Time Seer(End Time Seer)
In a simplified version of the theory, you can imagine the greenhouse gases as being a kind of shell around the earth. This shell absorbs and radiates energy. Now suppose we increase the CO2. That GHG shell absorbs more energy, ...
Protests force E.ON to abandon university recruitment tour
Corporate Watch News - Oxford, UK If built, the power station would produce the same amount of carbon dioxide
as the world's 30 least polluting countries combined. ...
THE MORPHING OF "CLIMATE CHANGE" POLITICS An email from Henry N ...
By JR(JR)
Might we be witnessing the third morphing of "Man-made Global
Warming/Climate Change" politics? I think so. The first iteration was the original "Man-made-CO2-driven Anthropogenic Global Warming" [AGW], aka Hansen and Gore, Opus 1, ...
Polar News & Notes: November 2008 News Roundup
By Jessica Fries-Gaither
If more severe consequences of climate change are to be avoided,
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels must be reduced below the levels that already exist today, according to a new international study. The authors of the study state that ...
Secular Humanists Should Be Vegetarians
By John
... respectively, have 23 and 296 times the greenhouse effects of carbon dioxide. The decomposition of fertilizers and manure is responsible for 80 percent of agricultural methane emissions and about 35-40 percent of total anthropogenic ...
The United States and the Kyoto Protocol
By doug.abshire(doug.abshire)
The Kyoto Protocol establishes legally binding commitments for the
reduction of four greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride), and two groups of gases (hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons) ...
Challenges of Climate Change and Bio-Energy
By jakob
But the Anthropogenic Factors are the real culprits which have induced such an uncontrollable emission of carbon dioxide and other gases and therefore elevated average temperatures. Anthropogenic factors are human activities that change ...

Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Grist - A Slow-Down Dirty Shame
On eve of U.N. climate conference, official warns against dirty energy
Grist - Warning Warming
Climate juggernaut on the horizon, U.N. talks told
Grist - James Hansen faces death threats
Hansen and Danny Bloom inspire vicious hate speech on web
Grist - The 'Grand Climate Plan'
Low-carbon roadmap comes into focus -- with some notable gaps
Grist - Duck and recover
Celsias - Making the Environment Real
Celsias - One Shot Left
Celsias - Time to Lead
Bunzl's Blog - Where are we?
Brave New Climate - Hansen to Obama Pt IV - Where to from here?
Open Mind [Tamino's Blog] -
Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent
Real Climate - Why don’t op-ed’s get fact checked?
DeSmog Blog -
“DSCOVR killed by Cheney” - NASA Insider

Skeptical Sources
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Advice for Climate Conference in Poznan
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Australian Parliamentarian, and Sceptic, Banned from Tabling Climate Data
World Climate Report - European Update
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Pass The Handkerchief
The Air Vent [Jeff Id's Blog] - Antarctic Just Won’t Melt
The Air Vent [Jeff Id's Blog] - The 800lb Gorrilla in the Hockey Stick’s Locker Room
Coyote Blog - New Climate Presentation (From the RCRC Climate Debate)
Climate Observations [Bob Tisdale's Blog] - Recharging The Pacific Warm Pool
Prometheus - Prins - Time to Ditch Kyoto, The Sequel
Prometheus - Fool’s Gold of Carbon Trading
CO2 Sceptics - 2008 in Top Five Years for Sunspotless Days Last Century - Could End up #3 or Even 2
Prometheus - ScienceDebate 2008 Borrows Tactics from the Big Three
CO2 Sceptics - Bookmakers face festive payout as Scotland freezes
CO2 Sceptics - The Science & the Politics of Global Warming
CO2 Sceptics - The global warming crowd's on thin ice in this economic climate
CO2 Sceptics - Board Member Criticizes ABC Global Warming Biased Reporting
CO2 Sceptics - Lawyers call for international court for the environment
CO2 Sceptics - Antarctica: slight cooling in last 30 years
CO2 Sceptics - President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US
Icecap - 2008 in Top Five Years for Sunspotless Days Last Century - Could End up #3 or Even 2
Climate Audit - Gavin Schmidt and "Uniquely" Oriented Speleothems
Climate Audit -
Craig Loehle on the Divergence Problem
Watts Up With That? - Klosed in Kalamazoo

Balanced Sources
Short sharp Science - New rifts threaten break-up of massive ice shelf
Short sharp Science - Cub reporter savaged over climate-change scepticism
EU Referendum - Post-scientific hysteria
EU Referendum - And talking of democracy being undermined ...
Science Daily - Antarctica: Wilkins Ice Shelf Under Threat
Rank Exploits/The Blackboard [Lucia's Blog] - Ehrmm… Debra’s Facts Look Mostly Correct.
Science Daily - Want Sustainable Fishing? Keep Only Small Fish, And Let The Big Ones Go
Science Daily - umanity May Hold Key For Next Earth Evolution
AccuWeather -
Amazon Jungle Loss Accelerates in Brazil
Climate Science Blog - VIDEO MAKES FUN OF GW SCARES
Climate Science Blog - MERKEL STICKS TO CLIMATE POLICY DESPITE JOB LOSSES
Climate Debate Daily -
Clue to break-up of ice shelves (Pro argument)
Climate Debate Daily - ‘There’s a lot of rich people backing this cause’ (Con argument)
Global Warming Blog - The Eden Machine

Today's Interesting Finds
I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site