I'm trying out a subscription to Audible.com so I can listen to books on my iPod while I take my daily walks. The last time I listened to an audiobook it was actually a book on tape -- my college roommate and I listened to "The Fellowship of the Ring" on the ride back from […]
This is a couple of weeks old, but it’s too good not to bring it to your attention. Melting icebergs causing sea level rise Scientists have discovered that changes in the amount of ice floating in the polar oceans are causing sea levels to rise. The research, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, is […]
Late last week, CNN.com featured as its main story an opinion piece by journalism professor and author of “The World Without Us,” Alan Weisman. In the article, Weisman attempts to make the case – in overwrought prose – that the eruption of the Icelandic volcano was a result of global warming. Both Iceland and the […]
Rep. Hank Johnson, geologist. Wanna guess his position on the fierce urgency of climate change?
Dr. Judith Curry – a climate scientist who is an Anthropogenic Global Warming alarmist, but not an elite member of “the team,” i.e. Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Phil Jones – has offered up a proverbial olive branch in the interest of “rebuilding” the “trust” the climategate scandal has demolished. Of course, she can’t resist using […]
Howard Friel has published a book called “The Lomborg Deception.” Newsweek “science editor” Sharon Begley praises it. Armed Liberal notes that Begley shoots herself in the foot on her credibility. But, the most entertaining bit of all is Lomborg’s response. [PDF format] Now, I don’t agree with Lomborg’s take on the AGW hypothesis (he believes […]
Some of you in low-lying areas were worried. Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings. The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report […]
Now that the Climategate e-mails have found him out, he’s singing a different tune. The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused […]
I just finished two Clive Cussler books to wrap up this extended holiday weekend (the first one I’ve had in a decade and a half). The first was “The Wrecker” the sequel to the exciting “The Chase” introducing us to the character of Isaac Bell, the top agent with the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Like […]