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Remarkable heat in AsiaFor the second consecutive summer, some of the hottest temperatures in Earth's recorded history have scorched Asia. The six hottest (undisputed) temperatures ever measured in Asia have all occurred in during the past two summers: ..
Heat Dome Over America
Heat 'dome' traps much of US in pressure cooker
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Heat Related Violence?
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[PDF] Heat and Violence
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Temperature and Aggression
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Analyse this: the psychology of climate change - Climate Action ...
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Climate Change Psychology: Coping and Creating Solutions
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"Green" aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. "These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets," the authors write.
No Need to Panic About Global Warming
There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.
JANUARY 27, 2012
WSJ Editor's Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article:
In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts.
Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2.
The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2.
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Although the number of publicly dissenting scientists is growing, many young scientists furtively say that while they also have serious doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up for fear of not being promoted—or worse. They have good reason to worry. In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal Climate Research, dared to publish a peer-reviewed article with the politically incorrect (but factually correct) conclusion that the recent warming is not unusual in the context of climate changes over the past thousand years. The international warming establishment quickly mounted a determined campaign to have Dr. de Freitas removed from his editorial job and fired from his university position. Fortunately, Dr. de Freitas was able to keep his university job.
This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death.
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Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris;
J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting;
Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University;
Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society;
Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences;
William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton;
Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.;
William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology;
Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT;
James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University;
Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences;
Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne;
Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator;
Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem;
Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service;
Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.
The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts.
In any controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.- Siddartha...
wintler2 wrote:National Geographic 2011 Among Hottest Years, Marked by Extreme Weather
NASA2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
wintler2 wrote:Just out of curiousity, what is the denialist position on ocean acidification? Is it 'la la la la...." too?
tazmic wrote:wintler2 wrote:National Geographic 2011 Among Hottest Years, Marked by Extreme Weather
NASA2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
Are you trying to tell us it's getting warmer wintler?
tazmic wrote:wintler2 wrote:Just out of curiousity, what is the denialist position on ocean acidification? Is it 'la la la la...." too?
From what I can see the current denialist position seems to be that 'ocean acidification' is what the warmistas turn to when their CACC arguments start to falter.
wintler2 wrote:tazmic wrote:wintler2 wrote:National Geographic 2011 Among Hottest Years, Marked by Extreme Weather
NASA2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
Are you trying to tell us it's getting warmer wintler?
Those sources provide evidence it is. [url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/annual/wa/perth.shtml]Hottest year ever in my home town[url], 32C there right now at 9pm local time, i'm on other side of continent and its 28C at 11pm.
Do you have evidence that you are able to provide and discuss that suggests otherwise?
wintler2 wrote:tazmic wrote:wintler2 wrote:Just out of curiousity, what is the denialist position on ocean acidification? Is it 'la la la la...." too?
From what I can see the current denialist position seems to be that 'ocean acidification' is what the warmistas turn to when their CACC arguments start to falter.
No, ocean acidification is a well known destabilising change in ocean chemistry that has only one credible driver/culprit for its acceleration, co2 emmisions.
http://www.kivitv.com/news/local/138006823.html
Report: Fallout from Fukushima coincides with spike in Boise infant mortality rate
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By Mac King
CREATED Jan. 23, 2012
The aftermath of the tsunami that ransacked the Japanese coast led to one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in the history of the world. Now, two researchers believe it may also have played some role in killing tens of thousands of Americans.
“[It’s] 155,000 deaths,” Joseph Mangano said, ”so we’re not talking about an increase from three to five deaths. We’re talking about quite a few.”
Mangano works at the Radiation and Public Health Project. The report he co-authored for a medical journal suggesting a link between Fukushima fallout and an increase in deaths in the United States has stirred up some controversy.
“The authors appeared to start at a conclusion,” Scientific American’s Michael Moyer wrote, “ – babies are dying because of Fukushima radiation – and work backwards, torturing their data to fit their claims.”
But Mangano said his critics miss the point.
“We have not stated conclusively that Fukushima fallout killed 22,000 Americans,” he said.
Instead, he and co-author Dr. Jannette Sherman cite numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly morbidity report. That data showed a large spike in deaths – particularly infant deaths – in the 14 weeks following the Fukushima meltdown.
“And the highest ones,” Mangano said, “were in Boise, Idaho.”
According to that report, Boise saw its mortality rate for those younger than 45 jump 20 percent over that span.
We couldn’t reach the Ada County coroner for comment so we headed 20 miles down the road to meet his Canyon County colleague.
“We haven’t noticed anything different here,” Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris said.
She said: If anything, rates in her county might’ve fallen: “I’m certainly not going to lose sleep over it.”
But Mangano believes she should. Actually, that we all should.
He called touting levels of radioactive chemicals as too low to inflict harm and even criticizing studies like his own “really irresponsible.”
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