Woodland Primrose

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It will be interesting to see how the new President addresses global warming.

Elegant rebuttal of global warming skeptic

I think this Boing Boing post illustrates an elegant rebuttal to a global warming skeptic.

Knowing that Arctic climate models are imperfect, it would be reassuring for me, if not for the scientists, to be able to write that scientists keep making grim predictions that just that don't come true. If that were so, we could follow Dyson's line that the models aren't so good and "the fuss is exaggerated". Scarily, the truth is the other way around. The ice is melting faster than the grimmest of the scientist's predictions, and the predictions keep getting grimmer. |Link|

Terminology: Climate Change or Global Warming?

A friend and I were recently discussing whether the term climate change or global warming should be used. I tend to prefer climate change because it's more generic. My friend felt that climate change is a term championed by those who would deny that humanity is generating climate change.

I also think that global warming gives people the impression that the climate is getting milder as it warms, but the greenhouse effect actually adds more energy to the system and makes weather more violent, so winters and summers are less predictable. It seems clear from what I've read that we are facing more heat waves, droughts and less predictable winter storms.

Climate Change in the Courts

The Climate Justice blog has a list of court cases on climate change currently underway here, although they don't appear to have been updated since 2005.

Welcome to the Polar Bear Blog

Welcome to the Polar Bear blog, my tribute to many soon to be extinction species that will soon no longer grace our planet.