Global Warming Watch

Desmogblog on election climate politics

2008-09-30T21:48:00.001+10:00

Australia had it's green election ten months ago, and the new government signed the Kyoto Protocol as their first act . They transformed us from pariah to trier in one stroke, and today we had the Garnaut report released, recommending 10% emissions reductions by 2020, or 25% in the event of a workable international consensus at Copenhagen.So that's one of the big three per-capita emitters on

Oreskes outs Nierenberg

2008-09-28T22:49:00.003+10:00

Story so far: Ronald Regan does not like the first three climate science reports provided by the government's elite scientific advisory group, the Jasons. But he like the fourth. It was synthesised by Bill Nierenberg, a Jason who had worked on the Manhattan project. So bringing us into the now, to history in the making, is Naomi Oreskes, of 'consensus' fame as she dissects how Bill Nierenberg

Life's Good and Do No Evil to power low-carbon grid

2008-09-28T22:06:00.001+10:00

clipped from www.worldwatch.orgThe recently announced alliance between technology giants General Electric and Google may provide the lobbying arsenal necessary for the U.S. to overhaul an outdated electric grid widely considered as a barricade to a low-carbon future. The collaboration brings together two

Woah there Putin, woah, easy boy

2008-09-28T21:56:00.001+10:00

Michael Tobias explores Sarah Palin's ability to portray foreign leaders in animal terms, and her appreciation of geography. Palin:"it's very important when you consider even national security issueswith Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of theUnited States of America, where, where do they go? It's Alaska. It'sjust right over the border."...Tobias: But if Putin were to

Summer will be an erratic El Nino and La Nina sandwich

2008-09-17T19:35:00.002+10:00

clipped from www.smh.com.auAfter the coldest winter in a decade, weather experts are warning Sydney to expect an erratic summer.Veteran weatherman and director of Weatherwatch Don White said people should expect the mercury to soar and sink this year, with temperatures in the Pacific Ocean indicating that the

Global warming — bad guys found at last

2008-09-14T21:23:00.003+10:00

The science on global warming is so clear that it's hard to understand why the public doesn't push the politicians to pass the laws necessary for our preservation. But, as a species we do not respond to changes on a geological time-scale, even those as rapid as our anthropocene. We can intellectualise the threat of climate change, but it takes a visceral threat, say - a bushfire, to move us into

Sarah "Shapeshifter" Palin's climate change change

2008-09-14T20:11:00.003+10:00

From this audio of a long letter of a disgruntled Alaskan, who claims to know Sarah Palin — minus lipstick — we learn that she does not believe that man-made global warming is shrinking the habitat of polar bears. Ergo, legislation protecting their habitat — from oil extraction — should be overturned. That's from before she was thrust into the public spotlight (and into dissonance with McCain's

Australians would dig deep to fight climate change

2008-08-31T23:47:00.002+10:00

Good news for the government implementing an ETS. We won't stand in your way (but woe betide it turns out trust is misplaced). A MAJOR survey of Australians' views on climate change has found an overwhelming majority think it is happening and they're prepared to pay to address it.The study by University of Technology Sydney found Australians wanted to see cuts in the nation's greenhouse gas

Hurrican Gustav to test Obama/Biden, McCain/Palin

2008-08-31T23:16:00.001+10:00

The damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina also ruined Bush. A point clearly not lost on all presidential candidates as they prepare to respond to the 'certain political fallout' claimed for Gustav:Republican White House hopeful John McCain and running-mate Sarah Palin will Sunday ditch their pre-convention plans and visit people in Mississippi bracing for deadly Hurricane Gustav.The visit comes as

Mother of all storms bearing down on New Orleans

2008-08-31T22:32:00.001+10:00

Remember Hurricane Katrina, hitting New Orleans this time to the day three years ago? Mayor Ray Nagin hopes so, invoking her name by omission. New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has ordered the city emptied tomorrow in the face of "the storm of the century", warning anyone that stays behind that they are on their own. "I am announcing today mandatory evacuation of New Orleans starting 8am Sunday (

Google Insights for Search on al gore, global warming, climate change

2008-08-28T00:07:00.002+10:00

Google Insights for Search (GIS) is Google's latest functionette on offer. It is fascinating, but not all it could be. More like a tease. GIS provides a graphical output for up to five search terms. Numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume

Aussie solar generation — where are you?

2008-08-26T23:22:00.003+10:00

Casting around me in Sydney to see what our suburban twenty+ year olds are into today, and well, it seems to be, well,.... themselves only. iPoded up (it's not called the usPod, is it?) they listen long enough to think of what they are going to say next when in conversation. My question: It's your future, where's the protest over the mismanagement of your environmental inheritance? The younger

Climate science, the public, and the Whiplash Effect

2008-08-21T22:57:00.001+10:00

Andrew Dressler of the Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University spent time as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. While there, he became extremely interested in how science gets used in policy decisions. He has published The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the debate (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006).In a new post

LOLdenialists pr-revus teh klimit siens

2008-08-20T23:40:00.005+10:00

Tim Lambert has posted submissions to LOLdenialists, a bit of fun. L. Ron Bolt cops it again, this time from Gummo Trotsky, for his insistence that his HadCRUT 'cooling since 2002 ' has significance. Itz teh underling tend, stewpid, by moi. Nexus 6's brilliant Global Warmin LOL is there plus a little dig at Littlemore LOL, and Stefan's Phlogiston is a riot. And there's more... All good LOLs, and

Explain

2008-08-19T23:52:00.005+10:00

clipped from thoughtsonglobalwarming.blogspot.com "Found on a city street.. via :: Flickr

Hansen — Mankind now controls climate

2008-08-19T23:21:00.004+10:00

Set aside an hour for yourself, and hear it from Dr James Hansen C/o 回転ドア Revolving Doors Global Warning Climate Change Energy

James Hanson tips cold water on sun theory

2008-08-19T00:11:00.002+10:00

This takes The Great Global Warming Swindle down with it... clipped from www.desmogblog.comIn another section of his recent "trip report " (see "westling" post below), James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, answers in careful but fairly accessible detail, the question of whether the

LOLdenialists goes vrial

2008-08-18T23:37:00.008+10:00

My entry... LOLlronbolt moar funny pictures Inspired by Tim Lambert, who was inspired by Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics who came up with LOLdenialists. Update: Thread has been picked up by Nexus 6, who is always good for a laugh Global Warning Climate Change Energy

Monckton vs. Littlemore Debate audio

2008-08-18T22:26:00.001+10:00

Monckton vs. Littlemore Debate audio Monckton vs Littlemore Debate audio Technorati Tags: global warming, climate change

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2008-08-18T17:31:00.003+10:00

Unbelievable. Rice looks shocked. Global Warning Climate Change Energy

60 Minutes in denial over climate change

2008-08-18T15:39:00.001+10:00

In the 60 Minutes story on climate change denial called Crunch Time, Rudd came off like he needs media-training on the issue. PM KEVIN RUDD: I'm not going to lie to you and say this is going to be cost free. This is a tough decision, we need to take it for the country's long-term future and its long-term economic future. But economic cost of not acting is massive, it's through the roof.

AGW deniers — sue Hansen, Al Gore! Or shut up

2008-08-11T00:00:00.001+10:00

The normally collegiate International Journal of Inactivism has thrown down the gauntlet to deniers like Christopher Monckton, Anthony Watts, James Inhofe, et al, to back their threats of legal action against Al Gore and Hansen .It is unusual for this esteemed institution, one that is known to be cautious almost to the point of inertia, to be publicly challenging the deniers like this. Something

Alarm!! By Nexus 6

2008-08-10T22:56:00.001+10:00

This very clever cartoon will appeal to the alarmist in us all.Technorati Tags: global warming, climate change

Global warming needs a Dr Evil

2008-08-10T02:29:00.001+10:00

Psychologist, Dan Gilbert says humans have been conditioned through millions years of evolution to react to PAIN threats:The threat must have one or more of these qualities Personal Abrupt ImmoralNow "Global Warming is happening too slowly", says Gilbert explaining why humans are failing to act in the face of the threat of global climate dislocation. Fascinating insight into our evolutionary

AGW Denial: Obama makes fun of wilful ignorance

2008-08-10T01:48:00.002+10:00

Oh yea... tell it like it is. Obama Insists Inflating Tires Better Than Oil Drilling