Climate Change

Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, part 2: The story behind the Barton-Whitfield investigation and the Wegman Panel

Perhaps the most disturbing episode in the "hockey stick" controversy was the investigation of climate scientists by the US House Energy and Commerce Committee under Republican representatives Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield, and a subsequent report for that same committee  by a …

Melting ice alters way of life in Iqaluit

Some Pacific island nations have been evacuated. Now the Inuits are watching their ice disappear. Party on!!!!!!

U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege

Just over two years ago, Rajendra K.

No time to put climate science on ice

The science of climate change has been on the defensive in recent weeks, owing to an error that dramatically overstated the rate at which the Himalayan glaciers could disappear.

Massive moisture-driven extreme precipitation during warmest winter in the satellite record - and the deniers say it disproves (!) climate science

It's not hard at all to get temperatures cold enough for snow in a world experiencing global warming. [...] the globe warmed 0.74°C (1.4°F) over the past 100 years.

New federal climate change agency forming

The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.

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The Age Of Stupid -- Movie Review

"The Age of Stupid," a 2009 docudrama set in 2055, asks why didn't we save Earth when we had the chance. "Stupid" was first conceived by Director Franny Armstrong as a documentary integrating themes of excessive consumption, war and climate change.

Paleoclimatologist: As Sea Level Rises So Does The Level Of Climate Change Denial

Paleoclimate scientist Dr Andrew Glikson: ""Since the early 20th century the rate of sea level rise increased from about 1 mm/year to about 3.5 mm/year (1993 – 2009 mean rate 3.2+/-0.4 mm/year" & heading for ice-free planet

New study using satellite data: Alaskan glacier melt overestimated

Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS – CNRS/CNES/IRD/Université Toulouse 3) and their US and Canadian colleagues (1) have shown that previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40  …

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