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While everyone is bloviating about the Interacademy Council Report on the IPCC processes, can we please note that they wrote the following:

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I have an op-ed in today's Oregonian, correcting some of the endless streams of untruths that come from skeptic Gordon Fulks

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Despite what you might have read, global warming did play a role in the recent Moscow heat wave.Recently NOAA wrote about the heat wave in western Russia,

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The Hadley Centre has been doing some nip-and-tuck work on their global temperature data, but they now seem to have things up-to-data. The data have 2010 as the 2nd warmest year in their records, year-to-date. (1998 is the warmest, year-to-date.) Th

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Affluence and Religion

Gallup has a worldwide poll out showing that the poorer a country is, the more religious are

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Bjorn Lomberg does an about-face and is now calling for $tensB/yr spending on climate change mitigation and adaptation....

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NY Times: "The former leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium urged a victim of serial sexual abuse by a bishop to keep silent for a year, until the bishop — the victim’s own uncle — could re

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Here's an interesting graph of US federal debt vs GDP:

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“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”-- Stanislaw LecVia: The Long Now BlogPS: I agree, this is kind of dumb. Anthropomorphizing snowflakes doesn't really help.

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Here's a great chart from The Oil Drum that shows how just little renewable energy the U.S. uses and how much fossil fuel usage there is to overcome. By the way, the green wind energy band is only visible in the last few years, atop the thin orange band.

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via: Dark Roasted Blend

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Somehow, the scientific issue of anthropogenic climate change now seems to depend on whom the movie director James Cameron is willing to debate.Man, this subject changes fast.

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Professional liar Marc Morano was, somehow, surprised that people would not sit still and listen to his lies a

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"As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I'm out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name o

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You know times are tough when even letters are getting laid off.-- Conan O’Brien, on the YMCA's recent decision to rebrand itself as the "Y"

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In a  demonstration of how individual rights erode one bit at at time, a high school in

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St Helens, Oregon

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"What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said."-- Klaus Kinski(Yes, Kinski was kind of a nut, but he was a kind of genius, too. If you haven't seen

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NASA GISS has revised their surface temperature data and 1998 has been determined to be only tied for the fourth warmest year. For January-December their top years (relative to the 1951-1980 average) are now:2005       &nb

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I'm hearing from non-ICM sources that three of the Fields Medal winners are purported to be:Ngô Bảo Châu, Institute for Advanced StudyArtur Avila, Paris

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Here's a very useful result for arguing with climate skeptics who claim that, at only 0.04% of the atmosphere, CO2 is too small a fraction to have much effect on climate. This paper finds it's 20% of the Earth's total greenhouse effect.From Gavin Schmidt et al,

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The consequences of living with a kitten who is enthralled with his newfound ability to climb, but hasn't yet figured out you are not a tree:

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If you need no other explanation of why network television is dead, kaplunk, kaputt, shot squarely in the ass, simply watch this clip. It's nothing but embarrassing, and that neither CBS or Andy Rooney seems to have the slightest clue that it might be just makes it all the worse:And to thin

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This is the year of the Fields Medals -- Mathematic's equivalent of the Nobel Prizes, except you have to be  under 40 yrs old to win.(That's got to be a big smack in the face for older mathematicians.)2 to 4 people usually win.They will be announced in a few days, on Aug 19th at the

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Here's an angle you might not have seen before:Suppose Arctic sea ice melts. What does that mean?Among many other things, it means that more sunlight will penetrate into the water. What does that mean?According to a new pape

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Funny (ha ha) Scientists

You have to appreciate scientists with a sense of humor (notice the affiliation footnotes):

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A paper in JGR on measuring El Ninos says that the 1997-1998 El Nino was a one-in-70 year event (± 20 years).An El Nino just 25% larger is predicted to occur every 700 ± 200 years. (Read the

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Here's a nice plot of Total Solar Irradiance, from a recent paper in JGR (Morgenstern, et al, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, D00M02, 18 PP., 2010doi:10.1029/2009JD013728). Be

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I hadn't seen this before: Rep Jay Inslee (D-WA) greets Christopher Monckton at May 2010 hearings in Congress. It's only about 10 seconds in. Priceless.

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