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John Cook has a brief update on what’s going on with the ice in Greenland, including this graph: Figure 1: Greenland ice mass anomaly (black). Orange line is quadratic fit (John Wahr). Add your own analysis, exclamation points . . . → Read More: Meanwhile, in Greenland Let me take a look at my checklist — what haven’t I done in a while? Oh, here it is: “Piss off the mindlessly pro-nuke crowd”.[1] So, what shall it be this time? How about plain ol’ economics? New Nuclear Energy Grapples With Costs: President Obama may be pressing for the nation to increase its supply of . . . → Read More: Spendy nukes throw a wrench into the renaissance Apparently I’m behind the curve on this one, so let me remedy that pronto. Go see Friends of Gin and Tonic, a site that mixes large amounts of science with just the right amount of sarcasm to skewer the deniers. They have an RSS feed, of course, plus the equally obligatory facebook and . . . → Read More: Must see site: FOGT Sometimes, even when the energy and enviro news seems to be particularly bad, some item comes along that makes one think the universe is having a good guffaw at our expense… Mammoth gas emissions helped keep planet warm, scientists say: Gassy mammoths helped fill the atmosphere with methane and keep the Earth warm more than 13,000 years ago, . . . → Read More: Never underestimate the power of farts If you’re offended by Nasty Adult Words like “fuck” and “shit”, click away from this page without reading what I have to say or playing the video embedded below. Still here? Good. Because you need to see this video. Beginning at about 1:50 into an 8:22 clip, the sound track is an unnamed oil . . . → Read More: Must see: The brutal truth about oil booming At least that’s what a CNN poll says: 57% strongly or mildly still favor offshore drilling? Ouch. I bring this up to make an uncomfortable point about the level of disconnect between what we energy and enviro geeks obsess about and what jiggles the needle for mainstreamers. There’s a disturbing and tiresome tendency for all of us to . . . → Read More: US: thumbs up for offshore drilling I wish I could say that I think this is as bad as this mess will get, or even that this surprised me, but neither are true. I think anyone who believes that the attacks on climate scientists won’t get much worse is hopelessly naive. ABC News Covers the New War on Climate Research (and on . . . → Read More: Deniers on parade: Attacking Michael Mann There are times when I’m just blown away by the depths to which the deniers will sink in their attempts to prove the unprovable to each other and the non-expert public. Case in point is a couple of howlers I douns out about via TimLambert… Don Easterbrook hides the incline: Fox News touts Don Easterbrook’s talk at . . . → Read More: Deniers on parade: Easterbrook and Taylor |
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