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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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Tagged Canada, Climate change, Earth, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Environment, globalwarming, Globe & Mail, Greenland
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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
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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Tagged Atmosphere, Celsius, Climate, Climate change, Earth, Eocene, Gas, globalwarming, Greenhouse gas, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
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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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Tagged Aerosol, Anthropization, Climate, Climate change, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, globalwarming, Greenhouse gas, La Niña, Temperature
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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