Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

Arab Spring, Gobal Warming...everything is connected...

http://nyti.ms/XMHx6k

BREAKING: Climate Catastrophe - Closer Than We Think - YouTube

Recent research shows that 5000 years ago the planet began to cool, dropping 1.3 F, until about 100 years ago it made a sudden reversal. Today we've regained that 1.3 degrees and now have the warmest climate since 11000 years ago. Somebody open a window; it's hot in here.

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173739...g-and-atypical

Trish, you need to be introduced to Christopher Booker and his latest broadside against the Hoax of Global Warming -note how the real emphasis of his article is on the costs; George Monbiot in the Guardian has ridiculed Booker's stuff before; anyway, also linked is the article by Lawrence Solomon referred to by Booker. But then this is the Telegraph so what does one expect?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/env...l-warming.html

http://opinion.financialpost.com/201...y-being-green/

The Telegraph article reports,

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Lawrence Solomon, recently had the bright idea of publishing in his Financial Post newspaper column a graph showing the temperature changes of the past 15 years in proper perspective, using figures from the most prestigious of all official temperature records, compiled by the UK Met Office and its Hadley Centre.

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Why didn't the scientists studying temperature anomaly think of that? They could have saved taxpayers a lot of money and themselves a lot of trouble had they only graphed the data for just "the past 15 years in proper perspective."

The "brilliant" new idea is climate science is simply chart the temperature anomaly for only the past fifteen years and use a temperature scale (from 0 to 15 degrees Centigrade) that dwarfs the fluctuations in the range of the anomaly (from -1 C to 1C). Yes that is brilliant. If one uses a scale that swamps the information in the thing one wishes to study (the temperature anomaly) and if one crops the data to exclude the period of time one wishes to study (we're testing the hypothesis that the greenhouse gasses produced by industrialization have created a planetary heat imbalance) then one has not so subtly revealed what one doesn't really wish to have studied.

Thanks, Stavros, for the headache inducing articles :)

Trish your graphs makes Solomon's look like an apron -but not in my kitchen!!

Climate deniers and the cycle of abuse:

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.p.../article/7380/

Another example of denial that required correction.

How Thatcher made the conservative case for climate action:

http://grist.org/climate-energy/how-...limate-action/

Let's just really screw up the tiny percentage of actual climate scientists by saying OK your right and we still are going to get rid of fossil fuels as fast as we can because they are running out, they burn dirty and they sold by assholes.

I believe my lying eyes and the melt of Arctic ice, once in a century storms every year and wide spread droughts in the US are enough that I am not all that impressed by scientists with connections to Koch Brothers and their ilk.

Given my age the worst consequences will not be in my lifetime but just the same I see this as an issue that just in case the vast majority of climate scientists are right we should do everything we can to reduce our carbon footprint.