Dana's Global warming denial rears its ugly head around the world, in English drew the highest number of comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Dikran Marsupial's 2014 Arctic Sea Ice Extent Prediction generated the second highest.
in his article, Climate Change Impacts in Labrador, Robert Way can be seen holding the Labrador flag during a field season studying glaciers in the beautiful Torngat Mountains National Park.
"We have found that, since 2009, the volume loss in Greenland has increased by a factor of about two, and the West Antarctic ice sheet by a factor of three," said glaciologist Angelika Humbert, one of the study's authors. "Both the West Antarctic ice sheet and the Antarctic peninsula, in the far west, are rapidly losing volume. By contrast, East Antarctica is gaining volume, though at a moderate rate that doesn't compensate for the losses on the other side of the continent."
'Incredible' rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists by Robin McKie, The Observer/The Guardian, Aug 23, 2014
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, Cook et al, 2013, Environmental Research Letters, is cited and linked to in Chris Mooney's Mother Jones article, Why Ignoring Global Warming Is Like Driving Across a Rickety Bridge. The tease line for Mooney's article is A viral tweet perfectly captures just how irresponsible climate denial is. The viral tweet was from the WWF UK and included the following graphic:
Michael J.L. Brown links to the SkS rebuttal article, What does past climate change tell us about global warming? in What I learned from debating science with trolls posted on The Convesation.
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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 24 August, 2014
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