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Globe and Mail Personal Attack by “Eyes Wide Open”


In commentary at the Globe and Mail to the article “Cheap and dirty: Where provinces diverge on energy crossroads“, user “Eyes Wide Open” states at 8:23 PM on September 12, 2011 You’ve gotta laugh! Here we have Alan Burke talking … Continue reading

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Researchers predict extreme summertime temperatures to become a regular occurrence


To happen even if expected increases in global temperatures are avoided In an article in the current issue of the journal Climatic Change Letters, Boston University researchers have estimated the impact near-term increases in global-mean temperatures will have on summertime … Continue reading

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Stratospheric Pollution Helps Slow Global Warming


Scientific American: Particles of sulfuric acid–injected by volcanoes or humans–have slowed the pace of climate change in the past decade Despite significant pyrotechnics and air travel disruption last year, the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull simply didn’t put that many aerosols into … Continue reading

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The Last Great Global Warming


Surprising new evidence suggests the pace of Earth’s most abrupt prehistoric warm-up paled in comparison with what we face today. The episode has lessons for our future. Global temperature rose five degrees Celsius 56 million years ago in response to … Continue reading

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Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008


Given the widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations, it has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008. We find that this hiatus in warming coincides with a period … Continue reading

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Expert credibility in climate change


Although preliminary estimates from published literature and expert surveys suggest striking agreement among climate scientists on the tenets of anthropogenic climate change (ACC), the American public expresses substantial doubt about both the anthropogenic cause and the level of scientific agreement … Continue reading

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