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Climate change should be an essential part of this year's election discussions (Letter) (mlive.com)
Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons (democracynow.org)
US presidential candidates cool on warming (aljazeera.com)
CNN had a segment this week on how climate change is making these hurricanes such as Sandy more frequent but also more dangerous - climate change is pushing weather systems together, causing havoc, and we can expect more of this stuff as climate change gets progressively worse.
ETA: last night CNN had a panel talking about which party will benefit most from Sandy - the President benefits if he does a superb job managing the disaster; Romney wins if the East Coast Elite all stay home repairing the damage instead of voting.
Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: "If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It" (democracynow.org)
Is Sandy a taste of things to come? (cnn.com)
350.org
Sandy: Storms in the Emergency Room (ecoshock.info)
Piers Morgan and guests on CNN talking about Sandy and global warming right now. Michael Moore: "This storm should put an end to climate debate". Andrew Cuomo and Michael Bloomberg: "We will see more storms like this in the future". Piers Morgan: People say this storm is unprecedented - Sandy is now the precedent". Michael Moore: "This is a dangerous road we are on".
Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia (popsci.com)
Hurricane Sandy (wikipedia.org)
RT: Global Warming Debate (and vid)
http://xrepublic.tv/node/867/
"Franken-Climate' - Two skeptics vs one alarmist - Climatologist: Dr Patrick Michaels and Physicist Dr Denis Rancourt debate climate alarmist Richard Milne"...
A Climate Change Agenda for the Second Obama Administration (bloomberg.com)
3 Climate Change Action Items for the Second Obama Administration (wri.org)
"Chasing Ice": New Film Captures Melting of the Planet Through the Lens of Photographer James Balog (democracynow.org)
Photos from Chasing Ice, James Balog's Chronicle of Melting Polar Glaciers (vanityfair.com)
chasingice.com
CO2 hit record high in 2011 – UN report (guardian.co.uk)
Climate change evident across Europe, says report (bbc.co.uk)
Climate Change Report Warns of Dramatically Warmer World This Century (climatechange.worldbank.org)
If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month (grist.org)
Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 (ipcc.ch)
We’re on pace for 4°C of global warming. Here’s why that terrifies the World Bank. (washingtonpost.com)
World Bank warns of ‘4-degree’ threshold of global temperature increase (washingtonpost.com)
A New Report on Climate Change: The World Bank Tries to Wake Us Up (forbes.com)
World Bank Study: To Avoid Doomsday Reduce CO2, Carbon Taxes & African Land Grabs (occupycorporatism.com)
Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says (businessweek.com)
World Bank Flash: Turn Down the Heat - Why Tackling Climate Change Matters for Development (worldbank.org)
The Climate Cliff and the Press (counterpunch.org)
Don’t Panic, But The Shoreline Is Moving Inland (disinfo.com)
Meanwhile, in we have the "bizarre ritual" in Doha (the location of the latest global warming "summit).
As climate warms, Arctic spawns massive ice islands (cnn.com)
It's Official, Harper Government Withdraws from Kyoto Climate Agreement
http://o.canada.com/2012/12/14/its-official-harper-government-withdraws-...
"Canada will officially become the first country to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement Saturday..."
AMEG Strategic Plan
http://arctic-news.blogspot.ca/2012/12/ameg-strategic-plan.html
"This strategic plan was prepared by the independent policy group AMEG (the Arctic Methane Emergency Group) comprising a multi-disciplinary team of leading scientific experts, system engineers, communicators and concerned citizens. The purpose of this document is firstly to warn the world of the extreme and imminent danger of global famine and ensuing strife created by rapid Arctic warming and precipitous sea ice retreat, and secondly to provide a strategic plan for handling the situation..."
'I'd Rather Fight Like Hell': Naomi Klein's Fierce New Resolve To Fight for Climate Justice
http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/148879-id-rather-fight-like-hell-naomi...
2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts (news.slashdot.org)
Extreme forecast dead-on in 2012: Hot and either too dry or too wet, just as experts warned (foxnews.com)
November 2012 Global Analysis | Supplemental Material | ENSO and Global Temperatures (ncdc.noaa.gov)
2012 Drought Will Probably Last Through Winter In The Midwest, Says U.S. Monitor (huffingtonpost.com)
Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica (nytimes.com)
I don't know what to make of this. Anyone know Tom Harris?
Ottawa must get real on climate change
It seems to go intuitively against what I know about climate change.
Harris can be found on wikipedia, he is a mechanical engineer sponsered by the heartlands institute. It looks like he has been busy building a group of doubters around the world. Dangerous people with lots of money behind them. I guess the Sun is working hard to extend an air of Credibility to them. There is an election coming up in BC and a hell of a lot of money gets transfered to the media in "Bc is the best place in the world" free governement money and this is probably the payback.
Edited to add. I looked into some of the network of these people and there is another wing in New Zealand (on Heartlands payroll too).
"The Heartland Institute, the US organisation that plays a key role in organised climate denial, has directly funded New Zealand’s most prominent sceptics, a search of US Internal Revenue Service documents has revealed. In 2007, Heartland granted US$25,000 (NZ$32,000) to the NZ Climate “Science” Coalition, sending the money to NZ CSC member Owen McShane. They also gifted the International Climate Science Coalition US$45,000 (NZ$59,000), forwarding the cash to NZ CSC webmaster and ICSC founding chairman Terry Dunleavy. [14]"
These guys do seem to have some of wikipedia corrupted because http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Climate_Science_Coalition but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harris_%28mechanical_engineer%29 gives the game away a bit. His buddy Vincent Gray in New Zealand asked to see the draft report of the IPCC and has decided that this allows him to call himself an 'Expert"
Vincent Gray "Dispute over credentials
He has been an "Expert Reviewer for the IPCC" since 1990,[1][6] although this consideration has been challenged and considered misleading since it does not require any expertise at all, but only that "he asked to see the draft report" and signed an agreement not to publicly comment on the draft report.[9]
Gray has never been published in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject of climate change".
Thanks, Brian.
I don't know Tom Harris.
from the bottom of the article ...
Tom Harris is executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition and an adviser to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
http://www.desmogblog.com/tom-harris
and, from sourcewatch.org ...
Tom Harris (Canadian engineer/PR specialist), a global warming skeptic
and,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/29/climate-change-sceptics-ch...
Thanks for the info. Harris sounds like a really bad guy.
Thanks Boom Boom for getting me to look. The deniers are now so blatent that they do not even try to cover their tracks. BUT the stench of heartland has gotten too much for Pfizer and they have stopped "donating" to dirty old heartland. http://www.christianpost.com/news/major-pharmaceutical-company-cuts-ties... Here is a quote from the link. It (Heartland_ "boasts of having 5,000 financial supporters, six NEWSPAPERS, and over 200 academics and economists who serve as policy advisers". I guess one of the "newspapers" is whoever currently owns the vancoubver sun (and who clearly has decided to print propaganda). Perhaps we need an online campaign to expose the Vancouver sun for printing that rubbish? Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/major-pharmaceutical-company-cuts-ties-with-global-warming-denialist-think-tank-87024/#C3MFCwbBFrYdiEM1.99
The fact that there are connections between Harris and the Koch Brothers should tell us all we need to know.
Is the Vancouver Sun part of the evil Sun Empire?
Actually no, it's part of Postmedia.
Thanks!
http://www.countercurrents.org/henderson010113.htm
Does Snow and Cold Weather Disprove Climate Change?
This is a really good link.
Excerpt:
NASA and NOAA plus research centers around the world track the global average temperature, and all conclude that Earth is warming. In fact, the past decade has been found to be the hottest since scientists started recording reliable data in the 1880s. These rising temperatures are caused primarily by an increase of heat-trapping emissions in the atmosphere created when we burn coal, oil, and gas to generate electricity, drive our cars, and fuel our businesses. Hotter air around the globe causes more water evaporation, which fuels heavier precipitation in the form of more intense rain and snow storms.
At the same time, because less of a region’s precipitation is falling in light storms and more of it in heavy storms, the risks of drought and wildfire are also greater. Ironically, higher air temperatures tend to produce intense drought periods punctuated by heavy floods, often in the same region.
These kinds of disasters may become a normal pattern in our everyday weather as levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere continue to rise.
excerpt:
Overall, it’s warming, but we still have cold winter weather. (explanation follows)
Global Warming Less Extreme Than Feared? New Estimates from a Norwegian Project On Climate Calculations