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Category Archives: Climate Change
Lawrence Solomon: Global cooling could be killing penguins
An alarmingly large number of penguins could be starving due to unusually cold waters in the southern hemisphere, according to scientists interviewed by the Associated Press. "What worries us this year is the absurdly high number of penguins that have appeared dead in a short period of time," said Thiago do Nascimento, a biologist at Brazil’s Peruibe Aquarium, referring to 500 penguins found dead in the last 10 days alone on three beaches in Sao Paulo state.
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Lawrence Solomon: The Globe and Mail’s overheated rhetoric
The planet is experiencing “a summer of swelter,” states a front-page story in today’s Globe and Mail that provides us with anecdotes of the upshot, such as “more than 1000 Russians have drowned in the last month trying to escape record temperatures.” The Globe then speculates that one cause of the worldwide heat wave could be “the ever-shrinking size of the world’s ice caps.”
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Lawrence Solomon: IPCC to Scientists: Shut Up!
(July 16, 2010) The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on July 5th warned the scientists in its camp to avoid talking to the press. Continue reading
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Climategate and the Big Green Lie
(Jul. 15, 2010) That isn’t my headline. It comes from The Atlantic, where Clive Crook its senior editor, yesterday took apart the recent spate of verdicts exonerating the Climategate scientists. Continue reading
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Climategate and the Big Green Lie
(July 15, 2010) That isn’t my headline. It comes from The Atlantic, where Clive Crook its senior editor, yesterday took apart the recent spate of verdicts exonerating the Climategate scientists. Continue reading
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Lawrence Solomon: The IPCC’s First Test in “a New World of Openness”
Will the IPCC and others in the climate science establishment pass this, their first test in the new world of openness? I hope they do. I know they won’t.They weren’t closed in the past out of haughtiness but out of necessity. Continue reading
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Lawrence Solomon: Reopen Climategate hearings, says UK parliamentarian
(July 11, 2010) The UK Parliament was misled by East Anglia University when it conducted hearings into Climategate earlier this year, charges Graham Stringer, a scientist and prominent Labour Member of Parliament, in an article published yesterday in The Register, a UK science and technology journal. Continue reading
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The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination
(July 10, 2010) Abstract: This paper introduces criticism elimination, a type of information removal leading to a framing effect that impairs Wikipedia‟s delivery of a Neutral Point of View (NPOV) and ultimately facilitates a new form of gatekeeping with political science and information technology implications. Continue reading
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It’s official, there’s no consensus on climate change
(Jul. 10, 2010) A panel criticizes the Climategate scientists for being defensive and unhelpful, for withholding data, for providing misleading information, for having been “blinded … to the possibility of merit” in the claims of their critics. Continue reading
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Hansard for UK Select Committee re Climategate Emails
Hansard for UK Select Committee re Climategate Emails Continue reading
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