The Brutally Dishonest Attacks On Showtime's Landmark Series On Climate Change. By Joe Romm Posted on "The Brutally Dishonest Attacks On Showtime’s Landmark Series On Climate Change" Percent of Americans Who Believe the Effects of Global Warming Have Already Begun to Happen, by Political Ideology, from McCright and Dunlap The good news is the video of episode one of Showtime’s climate series, “Years Of Living Dangerously,” has been getting great reviews in the New York Times and elsewhere. The bad news is the Times has published an error-riddled hit-job op-ed on the series that is filled with myths at odds with both the climate science and social science literature. For instance, the piece repeats the tired and baseless claim that Al Gore’s 2006 movie “An Inconvenient Truth” polarized the climate debate, when the peer-reviewed data says the polarization really jumped in 2009 (see chart above from “The Sociological Quarterly”).
George Marshall, “an expert on climate and communication,” — who is also often a critic of climate messaging — wrote me: I asked Prof. Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent? The importance of clearly communicating science to the public should not be underestimated. Accurately understanding our natural environment and sharing that information can be a matter of life or death. When it comes to global warming, much of the public remains in denial about a set of facts that the majority of scientists clearly agree on. With such high stakes, an organised campaign funding misinformation ought to be considered criminally negligent. The earthquake that rocked L'Aquila Italy in 2009 provides an interesting case study of botched communication.
This natural disaster left more than 300 people dead and nearly 66,000 people homeless. In a strange turn of events six Italian scientists and a local defence minister were subsequently sentenced to six years in prison. The ruling is popularly thought to have convicted scientists for failing to predict an earthquake. We all know that the earthquake could not be predicted, and that evacuation was not an option. Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent? The hellish monotony of 25 years of IPCC climate change warnings | Graham Readfearn | Environment.
Entire island nations "rendered uninhabitable", millions of people to be displaced by floods and rising seas, uncertainties over global food supplies and severe impacts on human health across the world. The news from the United Nations on the likely impacts of climate change is dire, especially for the poorest people on the planet. There will likely be more floods, more droughts and more intense heatwaves, says the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
As human emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise, natural ecosystems come under extreme stress with "significant" knock-on effects for societies. "Changes in the availability of food, fuel, medicine, construction materials and income are possible as these ecosystems are changed," says the report.
But in the words of that great British band The Smiths, you can now stop me if you think you've heard this one before. First Assessment Report – 1990 Natural ecosystems would face "significant consequences" from climate change. Global Warming Speeds Up Methane Emissions From Freshwater. British scientists have identified yet another twist to the threat of global warming. Any further rises in temperature are likely to accelerate the release of methane from rivers, lakes, deltas, bogs, swamps, marshlands and rice paddy fields.
Methane or natural gas is a greenhouse gas. Weight for weight, it is more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a century, and researchers have repeatedly examined the contribution of natural gas emitted by ruminant cattle to global warming. But Gabriel Yvon-Durocher of the University of Exeter and colleagues considered something wider: the pattern of response to temperature in those natural ecosystems that are home to microbes that release methane. They report in Nature that they looked at data from hundreds of field surveys and laboratory experiments to explore the speed at which the flow of methane increased with temperature. Plant uptake of CO2 is affected by temperature, and so is microbial methane production. NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us. Update: NASA is now clarifying its role in this study. NASA officials released this statement on the study on March 20, which seeks to distance the agency from the paper: "A soon-to-be published research paper, 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies' by University of Maryland researchers Safa Motesharrei and Eugenia Kalnay, and University of Minnesota's Jorge Rivas, was not solicited, directed or reviewed by NASA.
It is an independent study by the university researchers utilizing research tools developed for a separate NASA activity. As is the case with all independent research, the views and conclusions in the paper are those of the authors alone. NASA does not endorse the paper or its conclusions. " Read the original story below. Civilization was pretty great while it lasted, wasn't it? Science will surely save us, the nay-sayers may yell. Economic growth is the biggest destroyer of the ecology. NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment.
A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.
" Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common. " The independent research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary 'Human And Nature DYnamical' (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in association with a team of natural and social scientists. Greenpeace Co-Founder Loses It Talking Climate Change on Twitter. Hundreds of Students Arrested Demanding Climate Action. Day of student-led action kicks off with a rally in Georgetown before over a thousand demonstrators march to the White House.
(Photo: @350/ Twitter)Updated March 3, 9:30 AM EST Roughly 400 student activists were arrested Sunday after zip-tying themselves to the White House fence in what observers say was likely the biggest single day of civil disobedience throughout the Keystone XL "saga. " With over 1,200 students descending on Pennsylvania Ave. for the mass sit-in and mock oil spill action, they delivered their message loud and clear: If the president won't demand real climate action, "people power will. " “Obama was the first President I voted for, and I want real climate action and a rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline,” said Nick Stracco, a Senior at Tulane University and one of the lead organizers of XL Dissent. Throughout the day, images of students marching through Georgetown and lying on the ground in a giant "human oil spill" flooded the internet.
Earlier: Henn continues: Philip Radford: The Arkansas Oil Spill Photos the Keystone Cabal Doesn't Want You to See. A worker carries used absorbent material after attempting to pick up oil from Exxon pipeline spill near Mayflower, Arkansas. Nearly 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilled out of Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood causing the evacuation of 22 homes last Friday. The pipeline originates in Patoka, Illinois, and carries diluted tar sands bitumen to the Texas Gulf Coast from Western Canada. This same destructive tar sands oil from Alberta is exactly what the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will carry through new areas of the U.S. if Obama allows that pipeline to be finished. Despite what oil companies like Exxon want you to believe, oil pipelines leak.
It's what they do. Oil booms are visible April 1, 2013 in the water alongside a road near Interstate 40 near Mayflower, Arkansas. Poormansmedia : #ClimateChange will impact... Poormansmedia : Extreme weather cost insurance... The new threat from shale. The nighttime satellite photos are a handy reference guide to man’s creeping takeover of the planet. Densely packed southern England is a blanket of white light. Ditto the stretch between Washington, D.C., and Boston—in effect, one big city. As you move west in the United States, black becomes the dominant colour, interspersed with small islands of white. Wait, has a new megacity popped up in North Dakota? It seems so, but they’re not city lights. They’re the gas flares from the vast Bakken shale field in the state’s northwest, hard by the Saskatchewan and Montana borders. Many environmentalists consider shale gas (if not shale oil) a godsend too, because gas’s carbon intensity is roughly half that of coal, the main fuel used in U.S. electricity generation.
The trouble is that there is such a glut of shale gas that a lot of it is being flared off—burnt at the source—spewing carbon dioxide in the air for precisely zero economic benefit. Shale has always had a PR problem. 181426771-NRCan-emissions-trends. 185534889-Aglukkaq-Letter-to-EMay%281%29. Pressprogressca : Sorry #BigOil, Neil Young wins... Dave Phillips: Senior Climatologist, Environment Canada - Mansbridge One on One - CBC Player. Feb 8, 2014 | 22:24Mansbridge One on One Jan Hudec VideoClosed Captions available Mansbridge One on One Jan Hudec Feb 8, 2014 | 22:24As one of the world's best alpine ski racers, Jan Hudec's dedication to his sport has brought him triumph, victory, and injury.
How does he maintain his focus before a high-speed run? What does it take to compete with some of the best athletes in the world? In the lead up to Sochi, Hudec joins Peter Mansbridge for this week's edition of One on One. Poormansmedia : #climatechange is real and... Poormansmedia : Effects of #climatechange:... Poormansmedia : Life-threatening polar freeze... Poormansmedia : The impacts of #ClimateChange... Poormansmedia : #ClimateChange will impact... Poormansmedia : #ClimateChange will impact... Poormansmedia : Protestors crash General Harper's... Poormansmedia : One of the topics that I am...
How global warming can make cold snaps even worse. The cold air pushing toward America’s heartland is of a duration and magnitude rarely seen since record-keeping began in the 1870s. In Minneapolis, forecasters warned that all-time wind chill records could be broken, with a stunning -65ºF predicted for Monday morning. As the record-setting cold spreads across the US, brace yourself for this conversation: Your friend: “Sure is cold outside, amirite? Minneapolis is as cold as Mars right now. You: “Well…” In fact, despite the trolling of Donald Trump and other climate change deniers, global warming is probably contributing to the record cold, as counter-intuitive as that may seem. Snow and ice are disappearing from the Arctic region at unprecedented rates, leaving behind relatively warmer open water, which is much less reflective to incoming sunlight than ice.
Well, atmospheric theory predicts that a slower jet stream will produce wavier and more sluggish weather patterns, in turn leading to more frequent extreme weather. New Revelations on Climategate. Bill Maher lays waste to Global Warming deniers. Jon Stewart Rips Fox on Global Warming: 'Your F*cking Opinion' Is Not as Valid as Scientific Fact! Climate change deniers cite snowstorm: Debunking Donald Trump et al. Photo by Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images An intense blizzard, appropriately named Hercules, has blanketed the Northeast. Antarctic ice locked in a Russian ship containing a team of scientists—en route, no less, to do climate research.
Record low temperatures have been seen in parts of the United States, and in Winnipeg, Manitoba, temperatures on Dec. 31, 2013 were as cold as temperatures on ... Mars. So as is their seasonal wont, here come the climate skeptics. And Trump isn’t the only one. And RedState’s Erick Erickson also piled on, blending global warming dismissal with religion: Meanwhile, the front page of the Drudge Report listed a variety of cold weather news items under the heading, “Global Warming Intensifies.”
Rush Limbaugh also weighed in, noting that the Green Bay Packers may face the San Francisco 49ers in subzero temperatures at home this weekend: All of this is all wrong in ways that have all been explained before. 1. 2. 3. Harper government deleted lines about taking climate change seriously. OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq set aside a proposal from her department earlier this year to publicly state that the Harper government recognized scientific evidence that humans were “mostly responsible for climate change” and that it took this threat “seriously.”
Environment Canada proposed that she make these comments in response to a major report released in September by an international panel of scientists, including Canadians, that was created in 1988 to assess the latest peer-reviewed literature about global warming. The federal department’s recommended message was part of a proposed communications strategy, obtained by Postmedia News under access to information legislation, to raise awareness about the impacts of the consumption of fossil fuels such as oil and gas and other human activity linked by scientists to global warming.
“It was a 100 per cent partisan attack document,” said NDP environment critic Megan Leslie. Recommended statement: Actual statement: 'Whole world at risk' from simultaneous droughts, famines, epidemics: scientists | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment. An international scientific research project known as the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP), run by 30 teams from 12 countries, has attempted to understand the severity and scale of global impacts of climate change. The project compares model projections on water scarcity, crop yields, disease, floods among other issues to see how they could interact. The series of papers published by the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that policymakers might be underestimating the social and economic consequences of climate change due to insufficient attention on how different climate risks are interconnected. Europe, North America at risk One paper whose lead author is Franziska Piontek of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research explores impacts related to "water, agriculture, ecosystems, and malaria at different levels of global warming.
" How likely is this scenario? Chronic water scarcity About 2.7C above preindustrial temperatures: Bustle. Something sketchy is afoot at Google. The company’s “Don’t be Evil” motto is failing, some say, due to Google’s new investment in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Why? Because ALEC is downright right-wing. Among its benefactors is conservative Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who led the effort to damage Obamacare and helped drive the government shutdown this fall. (According to the U.S. More prominently, ALEC is a climate change denier group. “Google should Google ALEC’s agenda. All this goes to show that liberal darling companies might not actually put their money where their users would prefer. Pin it The notoriously do-gooder charity’s founder Blake Mycoskie made headlines in 2011 when he spoke at an event for the controversial Focus on the Family.
So there is no misunderstanding created by this mistake, let me clearly state that both TOMS, and I as the founder, are passionate believers in equal human and civil rights for all. Green Majority Radio #376 – Why Do We Hate Economists? « The Green Majority. DN! Keystone XL and Canadian tar sands are incompatible with solving climate change | John Abraham and Danny Harvey | Environment. Justin Trudeau shares 'steadfast' Keystone XL support in D.C. - World. One Guy With A Marker Just Made The Global Warming Debate Completely Obsolete. Stephen Harper’s environment minister casts doubt on climate change. Climate change will be felt strongly in countries like Canada: researcher. Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming | Environment | The Observer.
Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming | Environment | The Observer. Green Majority Radio #367 – ENILEPIP Theory « The Green Majority. We’re already sick of climate change — and getting sicker. Exponential growth: A cautionary tale. Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks| Nafeez Ahmed. The feds get seriously creepy about climate change. Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks| Nafeez Ahmed. Poormansmedia : Last two day it was in the... Joe Oliver beats back accusations of climate change denial - Politics. Third major oil spill in a week: Shell pipeline breaks in Texas. Japan Taps Methane Hydrates: Pondering the Explosive Implications.
YouTube. Record breaking heatwave to continue this week. Solidarity for Tar Sands Blockade and Climate Justice Spreads Worldwide. Keystone XL foes say fed study should consider climate effects. Climate Comes Home. Fossil-Fuel Subsidies of Rich Nations Five Times Climate Aid. Rise of acid ocean eats away base of food chain - Science - News. Poormansmedia : When you make $100,000 per... Poormansmedia : Rex Tillerson says that we'll... Paul-boothe-IPCC-extreme-weather-memo. BP executives sought to blame blue collar rig workers: U.S. People are getting sick of environmental destruction | Science Matters. Just Two Percent Of Canadians Deny Climate Change. Oil companies desperately seek water amid Kansas drought - Aug. 10. Glacier Collapse In Jasper National Park. Meet Paul Ryan: Climate Denier, Conspiracy Theorist, Koch Acolyte. July was hottest month in U.S. history.
iPhone : Walkom: At Rio 20, Canada furiously backpedals on environment. A Date with History: 17 yr old Brittany Trilford addresses world leaders at the UN Earth Summit. Canada's Oil Insiders Want a Carbon Tax. Arctic oil rush will ruin ecosystem, warns Lloyd's of London | World news. On Climate Change, Money Trumps Common Sense. Harper, Tory MPs challenge Peter Kent on climate science. Energy Companies Say One Thing, Do the Opposite on Climate Change. Climate Scientists Slam Heartland for "Spreading Misinformation" and "Personally Attacking Climate Scientists to Further Its Goals" Heartland Institute facing uncertain future as staff depart and cash dries up | Environment.