Draft National Assessment on Climate Change: Politicization of the Scientific Method ("1,200 horror-studded pages … of pseudoscience")

rbradley

“The draft assessment continue[s] to miss the positive externalities associated with climate change, like the fact that we have doubled our life spans in societies that were largely powered by fossil fuels that have slightly raised mean global temperature. Doubling the lifespan of, say, two billion people, is equivalent to saving one billion lives. This dwarfs [...]

Glenn Thrush notes Okla. senators are ‘spending skeptic’ and ‘global warming denier’

Brett Taylor

I wonder for how long. RT @GlennThrush: It is striking that #OK senators are 1) a federal spending skeptic and 2) global warming denier— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) May 21, 2013 Don’t judge Politico’s Glenn Thrush for judging Oklahoma senators Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe. Coburn invited criticism by voting against the pork-filled Sandy aid […]

RMIT Student Project on Cryogenic Liquid Methane Aircraft Reaches Airbus Finals

NGV Global

  A team of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) aerospace engineering students is headed to France after making it to the final five of an international Airbus competition. The Cryogenic Liquid Methane Aircraft (CLiMA) team is one of five finalists selected by experienced Airbus engineers from more than 618 [...]

Health Professionals Mobilise to Treat Climate Health

OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council has created a way for health professionals to reduce their carbon footprint by growing trees in a dedicated carbon forest in Wellington.

Global perils of dirt, glaciers and lizardocalypse overblown, say boffins

Another three ways the world isn't ending right now A trio of new studies out this week have undermined three of the basic ideas underpinning the belief that the world is facing imminent doom as a result of human carbon emissions and perhaps-associated global warming in past decades. It would seem that the menaces of a runaway feedback loop driven by carbon belching from overheated Arctic dirt, surging sea levels powered by melting mountain glaciers, and imminent extinction for cuddly tropical lizards are all a lot less likely than scientists had previously thought...

Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought

Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday.