04 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
Acidic oceans pose danger to marine animals
environmentalresearchweb - Bristol,England,UK
Oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb anthropogenic carbon dioxide and could become dangerous for marine organisms much sooner than we think. ...
A heated debate
Cosmos - Sydney,Australia
As a result, both Andrew Bolt and other critics of anthropogenic warming (not least the notorious film The Great Global Warming Swindle, aired on ABC TV in ...
"Tipping point of no return" -- NOT
By jblethen(jblethen)
"Oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb anthropogenic carbon
dioxide and could become dangerous for marine organisms much sooner than we think. Results from an analysis of the Southern Ocean by climate change scientists in ...
The Shape Of Things To Come - The Carbon Cap And Trade Myth
By TonyfromOz
I’m going to aim this post at those of you out there who have blindly followed this false premise that somehow, we are contributing to
anthropogenic global warming, now called Climate Change, with the emissions of Carbon Dioxide ...
Surprising Levels of Acid in our Oceans
By haldersey@hotmail.com (Heather Aldersey)
This study and other recent research links increased atmospheric carbon dioxide to a decline in ocean alkalinity. Scientists believe that "atmospheric CO2 concentrations could exceed 500 ppm by the middle of this century, ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Grist - A wartime mobilization
We need climate action on the scope of the WWII mobilization
Grist - Reality bites
Green groups launch campaign highlighting falsity of 'clean coal'
Grist - Changing climate targets in Poland
Poznan: Least developed countries present CO2 targets of 350 ppm
Grist - Talking Tough
E.U. still not united on climate change package
Grist - Survival of the Protest
Greenpeace to pitch protest camp at U.N. climate talks in Poznan
Grist - The horse they rode in on
The AP's climate conference footprint fetish
Celsias - No carbon disclosure here, thanks.
Deltoid - The Australian's War on Science XXV
Brave New Climate - The smokescreen of outdated emissions reduction targets
Deltoid - Gregg Easterbrook is an idiot

Skeptical Sources
The Air Vent [Jeff Id's Blog] - Flat Lies
The Air Vent [Jeff Id's Blog] - Straightening the Hockey Stick Blade
Prometheus - Spain Reluctant to Follow EU Rule on Scientific Visas
Icecap - Dec 04, 2008
Are There Long-Term Trends in The Start Of Freeze-Up And Melt Of Arctic Sea Ice?
Heliogenic Climate Change - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) continues his jihad against coal
Heliogenic Climate Change - Big Green cashes in
Heliogenic Climate Change - The oceans rule the atmosphere, not vice versa
Heliogenic Climate Change - EU desperate to appease Poland, reach deal
Heliogenic Climate Change - Jihad against coal continues
CO2 Sceptics - Under the Weather: Internal Report Says U.N. Climate Agency Rife With Bad Practices
CO2 Sceptics - ‘Rethinking Observed Warming?’
CO2 Sceptics - Natural defenses keep earth protected
CO2 Sceptics - Some point to a cooler, not warmer, earth
CO2 Sceptics - I Would Be More Worried About Global Cooling
Climate Audit - Four Monsoon O18 Series
Watts Up With That? - Internal Report Says U.N. Climate Agency Rife With Bad Practices
Prometheus - The Energy and Climate Challenge: Have We Underestimated the Size of the Challenge?
CO2 Sceptics - BRACE YOURSELF FOR A WHITE CHRISTMAS
Jennifer Marohasy's Blog - Clarifying the Role of the Sun and Global Temperatures
Watts Up With That? - The Answer Is: what is a dress blue weather station?

Balanced Sources
EU Referendum - This ain't just "weather"
Science Daily - U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Increasing
Science Daily - ESA Tests Laser To Measure Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
AccuWeather - That Dreaded Crabgrass!
Climate Science Blog - SCIENTIST TELLS CLIMATE CONFERENCE TO OPEN ITS MIND ON GW
Climate Debate Daily - Florida's Elkhorn coral on the edge of extinction (Pro argument)
Climate Debate Daily - Cold Sun – Cold Earth: 2008 Now #3 Most Sunspotless Days – Could we Reach #2 (Con Argument)
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Are There Long-Term Trends in The Start Of Freeze-Up And Melt Of Arctic Sea Ice?
Global Warming Blog - EEStor Ultra Capacitors
Nice Modeling - Assumptions for linear regression

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