It seems that I have a good excuse for keeping my ’96 Corolla on the road — I’m not being cheap, I’m being green!
Archive of posts filed under the Global Warming category.
“Minnesota levies world’s first carbon tariff…against North Dakota”
It’ll be interesting to see how this fight turns out. And important as well. If North Dakota wins, it’ll put a damper on any attempts to use carbon tariffs. (Yes, it does “unfairly” give renewable energy an advantage over coal powered energy — that’s the whole point to it. But if I read the law [...]
“Climategate: Why it matters”
As I’ve long suspected, the scientists sounding the Global Warning alarm have been playing fast and loose with the data. Deliberately. I understand some of the reasons for it: if they had told the truth, intelligent people would have dismissed the problem, quite reasonably demanding more information before taking the problem seriously. And by the [...]
“Media ‘re-open’ North Eastern Passage”
When “if it bleeds, it leads” falls flat, this is the kind of sensationalist reporting that you get. It’s a good thing that we aren’t paying for content, I’d hate to actually pay for this kind of drivel.
“Thermageddon? Postponed!”
I only know enough about climate science to know that there’s a whole lot we don’t yet know about it. This article just confirms that view.
“Boffins: Atlantic temperature ruled by dust, not CO2″
“Warm ocean, hurricane increases down to clean skies,” according to the subtitle. Hm, I wonder what NASA’s climate experts would say about that?
“I’m a sceptic now, says ex-NASA climate boss”
Global warming? Probably. Man-made global warming? It’s looking increasingly unlikely.
“American physicists warned not to debate global warming”
I thought the whole point to science was questioning assumptions to find the truth? I hate to be classed as a Global Warming denialist (there seems to be some decent evidence that it’s happening), but there’s a distinctly over-ripe odor around the subject.
“Are the ice caps melting?”
A lesson in Bad Science from NASA (predictably on Global Warming again): if the facts get in the way of your favorite theory, ignore the facts.