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The last few days have seen evidence of the political impact that the Daily Mail can have. But where do they get their stories from? And how do you write one?Dystopian Present
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 3-17-2012 I’m fortunate enough to be on vacation this week and will be making time to do more of the things which matter the most. I hope you’re getting ready for a bit of spring renewal as well as I think this year will be a bit of a slog.
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Nov. 10, 2011, 1:10 p.m. As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained [1] that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution. A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results [2] released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The findings are consistent with water samples the EPA has collected from at least 42 homes in the area since 2008, when ProPublica began reporting [3] on foul water and health concerns in Pavillion and the agency started investigating reports of contamination there.
Environment II by mark andrew york
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2011/07/01: TStar: AECL saga shows Conservatives have no business being in government Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has agreed to sell the reactor division of its billion-dollar crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., to the private firm SNC-Lavalin Inc. But taxpayers aren’t guaranteed any money from this sale.
Another Week of Global Warming News
Here is the new research published last week. I’m not including everything that was published but just some papers that got my attention. Those who follow my Facebook page (and/or Twitter ) have already seen most of these, as I post these there as soon as they are published.
AGW Observer
A UCL-led project to map changes in sea ice in the Arctic has released its data after the conclusion of the 5 year project. Available for use in climate models by scientists and partner institutions such as the UK Met Office, the data could help improve current climate models. Launched in 2005 with a consortium of eight partners led by UCL, the aim of the €1 million GlobIce project was to measure sea ice motion for use in climate modelling and research. Sea ice profoundly affects the exchanges of heat, water and momentum between the ocean and atmosphere, and plays an important role in oceanic convection and deep-water formation.
Arctic Sea Ice
John Mashey has a thorough and sad rendition of the whitewashing done by George Mason University to protect a tenured, climate denialist professor from the consequences of plagiarism. After receiving complaints, GMU found plagiarism existed in one case where an outside journal had already reached that conclusion and forced retraction of an article. In another case where no outsider had made a decision, GMU not only found no plagiarism but found "no misconduct," even though less of the same copied material was in the second case, the infamous "Wegman Report" to Congress that criticized climatologists. Deep Climate has an update that the plagiarized material, also found in other material by GMU academics affiliated with Wegman, has been cleaned up with little explanation and no admission of error.
Backseat driving
BraveNewClimate
Download the printable 33-page PDF (includes two appendices, on scenario assumptions and transmission cost estimates) HERE . For an Excel workbook that includes all calculations (and can be used for sensitivity analysis), click HERE . By Peter Lang . Peter is a retired geologist and engineer with 40 years experience on a wide range of energy projects throughout the world, including managing energy R&D and providing policy advice for government and opposition.
May 23, AM Update: Thanks to the comment from Anonymous, who points out that the spring 1910 chart originally posted was in degrees F, whereas the 2012 chart was in degrees C! (So much for taking the default plot options from the same web site.) This means that the comparison is not even close. Barring a supernatural "Day After Tomorrow" event in the next 8 days, the U.S. spring temperature record is a complete lock by an incredibly wide margin. Beating a 3-month record over a continent-wide area by such a large amount is so unusual that it didn't look that strange to be comparing Fahrenheit and Celsius.
CapitalClimate
Imagine you are sitting in your office simply doing your job and a nasty e-mail pops into your inbox accusing you of being a fraud. You go online and find that some bloggers have written virulent posts about you. That night, you're at home with your family watching the news and a talking head is lambasting you by name.
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"Climate..." Blogs
Well, this is it. The official last post on Climatide. I could wax nostalgic about what an incredible experience the past eighteen months has been, both personally and professionally. About how much climate science I’ve crammed into my head.
Climatide | Life on the edge of a changing sea
[ Update Feb. 15. John Mashey has released a very timely report on Heartland and SEPP, Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax , at Desmogblog ( PDF 5Mb ) with summaries from Richard Littlemore , and Mashey himself .] [ Update Feb. 15. Several news outles ( e.g. the Guardian ) are reporting that Heartland has branded one of the Heartland documents, the 2012 Climate Strategy, to be a forgery. (See also the Heartland press release ). Since its authenticity is in question, I have decided to remove quotes from it as well as the link to that particular document.
Deep Climate
delayed.oscillator
First off, thanks to delayed.oscillator for inviting me to participate. I’m excited to be involved. Secondly, please forgive some of the formatting – I’m still new to this whole blogging thing. And away we go … A recent paper ( Dengel et al ), published in the usually rigorous journal New Phytologist purports to show a statistically significant positive correlation between Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) fluxes and tree growth of sitka spruce ( Picea sitka ) from a plantation or managed forest in Scotland. Their hypothesis follows: High GCR fluxes stimulate aerosol nucleation in the atmosphere, leading to higher aerosol concentrations.1) See Fakery , p.3 and p.12. In ~2009, Heartland+SEPP+CSCDGC got ~$8M. The other 9 on p.3 got ~$39M.The additional 36 501(c)(3) on p.12 added another $283M. Now, only some of that is for climate disinformation, but some of it is for tobacco advocacy and other science disinformation, such as on environmental issues. In addition, these entities cross-support each other in various ways.