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Fri, 2005-12-02 06:29Jim Hoggan
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Real Climate Scientists Talking About RealClimate Science

Confused by the news? Check out www.realclimate.org, "a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists." Great stuff. You can quibble about their posts or pose questions for future analysis. They also back everything up with peer-reviewed papers.
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Fri, 2005-12-02 06:18Jim Hoggan
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... and check out the Christmas Gifts for Tim Patterson

A great selection of books for the uninitiated, the unwilling or the uninformed can be found at the RealClimate book wrap-up. Great reading on great reading.

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Thu, 2005-12-01 08:59Jim Hoggan
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Remedial Reading: Defending clarity of thought, on climate or other issues

Whenever someone is tredding carelessly through your brain, intentionally causing confusion or hapharzardly clogging up the works, it's good to go back to first principles. George Orwell said a lot of this best in his 1945 essay: Politics and the English Language.
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Thu, 2005-12-01 08:53Jim Hoggan
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... and speaking of George Orwell

The world's most prescient conspiracy theorist didn't invent the world "doublespeak" even if he might have intended to do so. Wikipedia has the scoop.
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Thu, 2005-12-01 07:49Jim Hoggan
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Just because they're European doesn't mean they're wrong

A Deutche Welle feature from Nov. 29, 2005, began, as the UN climate summit began, with the European Environment Agency warning: "Europe is facing the worst climate change in five millennia as a result of global warming." EAA Executive Director Jacqueline McGlade said, "Even if we constrain global warming to the EU target of a two-degree (Celsius) increase, we will be living in atmospheric conditions that human beings have never experienced. Deeper cuts in emissions are needed."

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Thu, 2005-12-01 07:36Jim Hoggan
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The Big Chill: Counterintuitive Global Warming effects

Nature magazine has a chilling article in this issue tracking the enui that seems to be overtaking the Gulf Current.

It seems that as the ocean warms, it also becomes less active. Thus, the Gulf Stream might ultimately stop flowing north, while the once-icy Arctic waters will stop flowing south. This might be "Good for Canada" (see next post), as Newfoundland suffers less the effect of the Arctic backflow, but it could equally be devastating for much of Northern Europe, which depends on the warm Gulf waters to moderate its climate.

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