Attracting the highest number of comments of the articles posted during the past week were:
The long-awaited El Niño has arrived. After keeping a close eye on evolving conditions in the Pacific, scientists yesterday announced the official onset of El Niño, a phenomenon affecting weather worldwide. But the nascent event is likely to have little global impact, scientists say.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Centre upgraded its assessment from 'El Niño Watch' to 'El Niño Advisory', meaning an event is now occurring.
Scientists have classified the current event as a "borderline, weak El Niño" with a 50 to 60 per cent chance of persisting through Spring. Its weak strength and late timing mean "widespread or significant global impacts" are unlikely, yesterday's report says.
Atmosphere 'has finally woken up' as El Niño gets underway in the Pacific by Roz Pidcock, The Carbon Brief, Mar 6, 2015
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
Vice President Joe Biden took a strong stance against climate change deniers in an interview with VICE founder Shane Smith.
The interview is part of VICE's documentary series, which airs on HBO and is premiering its third season on Friday. The first episode, titled "Our Rising Oceans," will focus on sea level rise.
"It gets to the point where you can't look anyone in the eye seriously and say, well, it's nothing having to do with manmade," he said.
Reacting to members of Congress who deny climate change is real, Biden said, "It's almost like denying gravity now... the willing suspension of disbelief can only be sustained for so long."
Biden: Denying Climate Change 'Like Denying Gravity' by Alan Horowitz, The Huffington Post, Mar 6, 2015
Lindzen Illusion #2: Lindzen vs. Hansen - the Sleek Veneer of the 1980s is cited and linked to in the Climate Nexus article, Lindzen Cites Debunked Science to Defend Denier-for-Hire Soon in 'Wall Street Journal' posted on The Huffington Post.
In his Energy & Environment blog post (Washington Post), The GOP’s climate change skepticism, in one groan-worthy video, Puneet Kollipara references and links the SkS Global Warming & Climate Change Myths webpage.
Tracy D’Augustino, Michigan State University Extension quotes from, and links to, the The Debunking Handbook in her article, Combating science misconceptions: Help take the fiction out of science.
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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 8 March, 2015
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