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Dana's Climate Scientists Erring on the Side of Least Drama generated the most comments of the materials posted during the past week. Commentors veered into a discussion about the future of fossil fuels and renewable energy.
Reprinted with permission from Neil Wagner.
Ultimately we have a moral responsibility to the most innocent victims of adverse climate change. Those who will suffer the most are the people who are the most innocent: the world’s poorest citizens and those yet to be born. There is an ancient Native American saying: “We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” A few short decades later, we don’t want our children to ask, “What were our parents thinking? Didn’t they care about us?”
From US Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Feb 1, 2013 letter announcing his decision to not serve a second term as Secretary.
Dana updated the Intermediate version of the SkS rebujttal article, How the IPCC is more likely to underestimate the climate response by adding a paragraph highlighting the bsic finding of the peer-reviewed paper, Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama? by Bryesse et al published in Global Environmental Change, Volume 23, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 327-337. This paper is also the subject of Dana' article, Climate Scientists Erring on the Side of Least Drama.
Katharine Hayhoe heartily endorsed Skeptical Science in an excellent article at AITSE.
Neil Wagner on Huffington Post created the Escalator cartoon shown above and linked to Kevin C's informative '16 years' rebuttal.
Dana's NASA Retirees Appeal to their Own Lack of Climate Authority was re-posted on Climate Progress and blodic.us.
Media Matters referenced SkS in debunking a Fox News faux story promoting the debunked claim that climate scientists have exaggerated climate change.
Dana's New Research Finds that Most Monthly Heat Records Today are Due to Global Warming was re-posted on Climate Progress.
Media Matters referenced Dana's Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome in criticizing Bloomberg for hyping the as of yet unpublished Norwegian climate sensitivity study.
Carbon Brief also has a post on the Norwegian study referencing Dana's post.
Dana's Climate Scientists Erring on the Side of Least Drama was re-posted on Climate Progress.
David Appell has an interesting story about dueling climate scientists which we will discuss more in a blog post tomorrow, and links to the SkS trend calculator tool.
Jeffrey Bennett at Beyond UFOs created a global warming primer that references several SkS resources.
Founded by acclaimed mountaineer, photographer, and filmmaker David Breashears, GlacierWorks is a non-profit organization that vividly illustrates the changes to Himalayan glaciers through art, science, and adventure. Since 2007, GlacierWorks has undertaken ten expeditions to document the current state of the glaciers, retracing the steps of pioneering mountain photographers in order to capture new images that precisely match the early photographic records. Over the past five years, they have recorded losses and changes to glaciers that are inaccessible to all but the most skilled climbers.
Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 3 February, 2013
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