Dana's Rupert Murdoch doesn't understand climate change basics, and that's a problem understandably generated the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Is global warming causing extreme weather via jet stream waves? by John Abraham attracted the second highest number of comments. Both articles are very topical and informative.
Source: Jerry Brown faces climate change facts while GOP chases moonbeams by David Horsey, Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2014
h/t to I heart Climate Scientists
"Some in the environmental community argue that there is a danger of acknowledging how much climate change is already costing us. They fear it could dampen people's willingness to pay more to slow it. But to unmask these costs is to reveal a financial tempest foretold. The consequences of climate change will only get more extreme and more expensive the longer we wait. Reduce emissions now and we can cushion, if not avoid altogether, the fall through that sequence of trap doors.
"So the question remains: Who will bear the burden of all those years of discounted energy when the real costs of all those discounts are breaking out all over?"
The carbon taxes we're already paying, Op-ed by Mark Schapiro, Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2014
The SkS profile, Climate Misinformer: John Christy is linked to in Joe Romm's Climate Progress post, Quoting John Christy On Climate Change Is Like Quoting Dick Cheney On Iraq.
In her Salon article, New York Times’ climate skeptic debacle: How a new profile sets back science, Lindsay Abrams links to two SkS articles:
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, Cook et al, 2013, Environmental Research Letters, is referenced in a Letter-to-the-Editor byIvars Balkits posted on The Athens News of Athens County, Ohio.
"All of this myth-busting got me thinking about how much we, as humans, need help in seeing the facts for what they are. More specifically, it reminded me of 'The Debunking Handbook, by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky, a guide developed for scientists fighting climate deniers and something I have been emailing to friends and colleagues for many months now.
"The Debunking Handbook has also become my go-to manual in offering advice to investors, company managements and stockpickers alike, all of whom need to debunk myths as part of their day jobs."
How to Debunk 35 Years of High School Myths by Mariko Gordon, ValueWalk
ClimateState gathers knowledge about the broad spectrum of climate change and tries to help increase understanding and awareness about the threat of dangerous (unchecked) climate change. The scope is to encourage the fast paced deployment of solutions, i.e. carbon sequestration with Biochar and taxing CO2.
h/t to Climate Chnage Guide
Super typhoon kills fourteen in southern China - Xinhua, Reuters, July 19, 2014
Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 20 July, 2014
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