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Ted Cruz's favorite temperature data just got a lot hotter and GWPF throws out centuries of physics, climate scientists laugh, conservative media fawns by Dana Nuccitelli (Climate Consensus -the 97%, Guardian) attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Will Fossil Fuel Prices Fully Recover? by Riduna rounded out the top three.
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists.
"The overall message that climate science delivers to society, policymakers, and the public alike is this: we have a global emergency. Fossil fuel CO2 emissions should be reduced as rapidly as practical. We argue that country-by-country goals, the approach of the 21stConference of the Parties[13] cannot lead to rapid phasedown of fossil fuel emissions, as long as fossil fuels are allowed to be the cheapest energy. It will be necessary to include a carbon fee that allows the external costs of fossil fuels to be incorporated in their price. Border duties on products from countries without a carbon fee, would lead to most nations adopting a carbon fee."
Regional Climate Change and National Responsibilities by James Hansen & Makiko Sato, Climate Science, Awareness & Solutions, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Feb 29, 2016
Cruz* often brought up the satellite data in Senate hearings and on the campaign trail to dispute the existence of climate change. In a Senate subcommittee hearing in December, Cruz suggested the idea of climate change was a conspiracy among scientists, Democrats and the media.
“There has been no significant global warming in the past 18 years,” he said at the time. “Global warming alarmists don’t like these data. They are inconvenient truths, as Al Gore might say. But facts and evidence matters.”
*US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and candidate for the Republican nomination for US President
Adjusted satellite data derails one of Cruz’s arguments against climate change by Elizabeth Koh, Dallas Morning Herald, Mar 6, 2016
How should we teach students about climate change? by John Cook was published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Lisa Bailey, Program Manager at RiAus, Australia’s Science Channel, interviewed John Cook for her article, Leo Wins Oscar But Can He Win The Public Over Climate Change? Her lead-in to Cook's repsonses:
I asked John Cook, a research fellow in Climate Communication at UQ (and who also runs the fabulous and free Climate Denial 101x course you can check out here), what he thought of Leo’s win and it’s implications for public perceptions of climate change.
A new document, The 12 Questions Every Climate Activist Hears and What to Say, created and published by the Climate Reality Project contains references/links to a number of SkS Rebuttal articles.
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The core mission of the Sabin Center is to develop and promulgate legal techniques to address climate change, and to train the next generation of lawyers who will be leaders in the field. The Sabin Center is both a partner to and resource for public interest legal institutions engaged in climate change work. Further, the center addresses a critical need for the systematic development of legal techniques to fight climate change outside of the realm of judicial litigation, and the compilation and dissemination of information for lawyers in the public, private and NGO sectors.
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Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 6 March, 2016
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