Missed an item this week? Review the news and posts covered by ClimateState during the week 28, 2014. July 7, 2014 Bad news about rising sea levels as quickening Antarctic winds lead to faster ice melt New mechanism uncovered, causing potentially rapid Antarctic Glacier melt Rose-colored glasses: Antarctic sea ice is the Mail on Sunday’s…
First posted in 2011, still popular on denialist blogs. Peter Sinclair explains: A widely circulated piece of climate denial nonsense purports to use legitimate evidence from Greenland ice cores to debunk the record of global warming. Displaying temperature records out of context, and making the claim of legitimacy by citing the data, and it’s primary author,…
According to a new report conducted by the University of Waterloo, oil and gas wells are leaking heat-trapping gases and pose a greater threat then fracking to the environment. Maurice Dusseault, a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences explained: “Hydraulic fracturing is not the main risk. The main risk is poor well completion that can…
Rupert Murdoch, recently gave an interview to Sky News Australia. When it comes to climate impacts, according to Murdoch we just have to move a bit inland and the worst is a temperature rise of 3 degree and a modest sea level rise of six inches. However, according to the IPCC (representing the best science…
Bob Inglis at TEDxJacksonville: Although he hales from the reddest district of the reddest state in the United States of America, Bob Inglis tells a story of how he came to appreciate the threat of climate change and how he believes the solution lies in the bedrock principals of conservatism. Bob Inglis is the Executive…