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Post by Kahlessa on Jan 14, 2009 15:22:32 GMT -5
Another good website - Watts Up With That?Commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Wattswattsupwiththat.com/From Anthony Watts: I’m a former television meteorologist who spent 25 years on the air and who also operates a weather technology and content business, as well as continues daily forecasting on radio, just for fun. Weather measurement and weather presentation technology is my specialty. I also provide weather stations and custom weather monitoring solutions via www.weathershop.com (if you like my work, please consider buying a weather gadget there, StormPredator for example) and www.tempelert.com, and turn key weather channels with advertising at www.viziframe.com
The weather graphics you see in the lower right corner of the blog are produced by my company, IntelliWeather.
While I have a skeptical view of certain issues, I consider myself “green” in many ways, and I promote the idea of energy savings and alternate energy generation. Unlike many who just talk about it, I’ve put a 10KW solar array on my home, plus a 125 KW solar array on one of our local schools when I was a school trustee. I’ve retrofitted my home with CFL’s and better insulation, as well as installed timer switches on many of our most commonly used lights.
I also drive an electric car for my daily around town routine.
I encourage others to do the same when it comes to efficient use of energy and energy conservation.
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Post by Kahlessa on Jan 19, 2009 12:00:02 GMT -5
Now here's the kind of thing that gives environmentalism a bad name. It seems the government of Chad has banned the use of wood charcoal in an effort to protect the environment, and that's what most people use to cook with. The article is from the website IRIN - Humanitarian news and analysis, which is funded by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. CHAD: Panic, outcry at government charcoal banwww.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=82436 “As we speak women and children are on the outskirts of N’djamena scavenging for dead branches, cow dung or the occasional scrap of charcoal,” Merlin Totinon Nguébétan of the UN Human Settlements Programme (HABITAT) in Chad, told IRIN from the capital. “People cannot cook.”
“Women giving birth cannot even find a bit of charcoal to heat water for washing,” Céline Narmadji, with the Association of Women for Development in Chad, told IRIN.
Unions and other civil society groups say the government failed to prepare the population or make alternative household fuels available when it halted all transport of charcoal and cooking wood into the capital in December in a move, officials said, to protect the environment.
Charcoal is the sole source of household fuel for about 99 percent of Chadians, N’djamena residents told IRIN.And take a look at this quote from a government official: “Chadians must find other ways to cook and forget about charcoal and wood as fuel,” Environment Minister Ali Souleyman Dabye recently told the media in N’djamena. “Cooking is of course a fundamental necessity for every household. On the other hand...with climate change every citizen must protect his environment.”Spoken like someone who has a propane tank to cook his food (or perhaps he owns an interest in a propane company. I think the citizens of Chad should tear his house down and use that for fuel. Perhaps they could burn his clothes as well (let him take them off first).
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 7, 2009 9:21:30 GMT -5
Another good website: ICECAPicecap.us/index.phpICECAP, International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, is the portal to all things climate for elected officials and staffers, journalists, scientists, educators and the public. It provides access to a new and growing global society of respected scientists and journalists that are not deniers that our climate is dynamic (the only constant in nature is change) and that man plays a role in climate change through urbanization, land use changes and the introduction of greenhouse gases and aerosols, but who also believe that natural cycles such as those in the sun and oceans are also important contributors to the global changes in our climate and weather. We worry the sole focus on greenhouse gases and the unwise reliance on imperfect climate models while ignoring real data may leave civilization unprepared for a sudden climate shift that history tells us will occur again, very possibly soon.
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 16, 2009 21:23:31 GMT -5
A great op-ed about Obama’s Energy Secretary: Dark Green DoomsayersBy George F. Will, Washington Post, Sunday, February 15, 2009; Page B07 A corollary of Murphy's Law ("If something can go wrong, it will") is: "Things are worse than they can possibly be." Energy Secretary Steven Chu, an atomic physicist, seems to embrace that corollary but ignores Gregg Easterbrook's "Law of Doomsaying": Predict catastrophe no sooner than five years hence but no later than 10 years away, soon enough to terrify but distant enough that people will forget if you are wrong...www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021302514.html
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 24, 2009 7:35:26 GMT -5
Here's an interesting article about when science and politics mix: Politics in the Guise of Pure ScienceBy JOHN TIERNEY, NY Times, February 23, 2009 Why, since President Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in Washington, do some things feel not quite right?
First there was Steven Chu, the physicist and new energy secretary, warning The Los Angeles Times that climate change could make water so scarce by century’s end that “there’s no more agriculture in California” and no way to keep the state’s cities going, either....www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/science/24tier.html
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Post by Kahlessa on Apr 24, 2009 21:31:45 GMT -5
This site has a enormous number of links to articles and resources for analysis and discussion of global warming: climatedepot.com/
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Post by Kahlessa on May 5, 2009 13:44:25 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Nov 21, 2009 19:55:06 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Nov 22, 2009 1:04:14 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 1, 2009 16:23:33 GMT -5
Here’s a good article: E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril of Trying to Spin ScienceBy John Tierney, New York Times, November 30, 2009 www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01tier.htmlNice to see it in the New York Times, but Tierney’s science stories are better and more balanced than stories by Andrew C. Revkin, who is tying himself in knots trying to explain Climategate. Tierney included a link to a hilarious video: Hide The Decline – Climategatewww.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 2, 2009 21:45:24 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 3, 2009 17:39:36 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 3, 2009 20:41:34 GMT -5
Munk Debate on Climate Change videoDecember 1st, 2009, Toronto, Canada www.munkdebates.com/ Resolution:Be it resolved that climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response. C02 levels in the atmosphere are climbing steadily higher. Some believe this is having a devastating effect on humans and nature, while others argue that the threat has been overstated. Is this the moment for a bold international treaty to curb carbon emissions? Or, are the social and economic costs of reducing C02 emissions too high in world where a billion people live on a dollar or less a day? Just days before the United Nation’s historic Copenhagen summit the Munk Debates will tackle one of the great public policy questions of our time: how should the world respond to climate change? Pro:Elizabeth May George Monbiot Con:Bjorn Lomborg Lord Nigel Lawson Debate resultsPRE-DEBATE PRO: 61% CON: 39% POST-DEBATE PRO: 53% CON: 47%
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 5, 2009 15:30:16 GMT -5
Few Scientists Sweet on M & MTwo Canadians, Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, are a thorn in the side of climatologists who say the planet is under threat from man-made global warmingBy Richard Foot, Canwest News Service, December 5, 2009 www.montrealgazette.com/technology/scientists+sweet/2306270/story.htmlSteve McIntyre is the creator and author of the website Climate Audit www.climateaudit.org/In E-mails, Science of Warming is Hot DebateStolen files of 'Climate-gate' suggest some viewpoints on change are disregarded
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Saturday, December 5, 2009 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120404511.htmlThe Climate Change TravestyBy George F. Will, Washington Post, Sunday, December 6, 2009 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120403073.html
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Post by Kahlessa on Dec 5, 2009 15:43:05 GMT -5
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