2012 SkS Weekly Digest #49

SkS Highlights

When Daniel Baily takes a break from moderating the comment threads of SkS articles and cranks out an article, the result is usually a gem. Such is the case with The Greenhouse Gas Effect All-Star Fan Club.  As one reader posted, "Definitely a keeper ;) Will use this one ;).

Rob Painting's Past 150,000 Years of Sea Level History Suggests High Rates of Future Sea Level Rise is also a "keeper" and has been reposted verbatim on Joseph Romm's Climate Progress website

Toon of the Week

2012 Toon 49

Source: Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette

Quote of the Week

“We can’t wait until the 2020s to start cutting emissions. We are going to have to do it this decade,” said Samantha Smith, who heads the Global Climate and Energy Initiative of the World Wildlife Fund, in a telephone interview from Doha.

Ignoring Planetary Peril, a Profound ‘Disconnect’ Between Science and Doha by Christopher Shuetze, International Herald Tribune, Dec 9, 2012.

The Week in Review

Coming Soon

SkS in the News

Dana's he Latest Pre-Bunked Denialist Letter in Lieu of Real Science was highlighted at Slate's Bad Astronomy blog and re-posted at Scott Supak's Shared Items.

Rob Painting's Past 150,000 Years of Sea Level History Suggests High Rates of Future Sea Level Rise was re-posted on Climate Progress.

John Cook's denial psychology research presented at the AGU conference was featured by Live Science.

The SkS 'settled science' rebuttal was referenced by Brian Powell at Media Matters, and in a re-post on Climate Progress.

SkS Spotlights: Germanwatch

From the Germawatch Mission Statement

We are an independent development and environmental organisation which lobbies for sustainable global development. For us, sustainable development means socially equitable, ecologically sound and economically stable development.

We endeavour to approach our aims by advocating fair trade relations, responsible financial markets, compliance with human rights, and the prevention of dangerous climate change. Our topics are World Trade and Food Security, Climate Protection and Adaptation, Corporate Accountability, the Financial Sector and Sustainability as well as the Financing of Development Cooperation.

Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 10 December, 2012


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