Ten Charts That Make Clear The Planet Just Keeps Warming By Joe Romm on October 15, 2012 at 6:46 pm "Ten Charts That Make Clear The Planet Just Keeps Warming" Perhaps you thought that the whole “planet isn’t warming” meme was killed by this summer’s bombshell Koch-funded study. After all, it found ”global warming is real,” “on the high end” and “essentially all” due to carbon pollution. Sadly, denial springs eternal. The piece is so misleading, even the UK Met Office felt a need to instantly debunk it with a blog post that included this chart. UK Met Office graph showing years ranked in order of global temperature. Since Rose managed to find one misleading chart to push his myth, I thought I would dig up ten serious ones that show the reverse, including the top chart from Skeptical Science, the great Australian blog, which is derived from the data in the Koch-funded study. Note: “Skeptics” is an Aussie word for denier or disinformer. As we’ve stressed before, choosing a starting or end point on short-term scales can be very misleading.
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression World War I veterans block the steps of the Capital during the Bonus March, July 5, 1932 (Underwood and Underwood). In the summer of 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, World War I veterans seeking early payment of a bonus scheduled for 1945 assembled in Washington to pressure Congress and the White House. Hoover resisted the demand for an early bonus. Veterans benefits took up 25% of the 1932 federal budget. In July, the Senate rejected the bonus 62 to 18.
by Anne Waldman Haiku from Zuccotti Park Moloch’s motor got stuck on the roof of Casino Wall Street look up! moon, a ghost chip in the sky… 10/ 10/11 “Columbus” Day/Liberty Plaza Anne Waldman Belly of the Beast: Forward & Lucid Dream Das Capital A being which does not have its nature outside itself is not a natural being…. you would say it you would paint it you would say it if you could little rewards for the little people the curb carbon people of the world…. primary people of the carbon litter world they live the night they live the dawn little brave people of all our worlds & we them & they us perpetually awake & facing forward. elegant. grotesque? in all the trepidations of people people hear this now (oh people of the world) beautiful people of the world dressed up worlds & wounds & weeds see the colors now task them trouble them people people hear this now, trouble this now, oh people of the world trouble trouble & children in the process coming to this edge & rhythmic sadness curb carbon mantra receding, you uld
Future Now Leading up to our Maker Cities immersion in Shenzhen's maker culture, here are four of our China + makers research pieces from the last three years.... From March 19-20, IFTF’s Technology Horizons program traveled to Mexico City to explore its emerging maker culture, community, and movement. It was an... Apr 01, 2014 By Lindsea K. Wilbur Your faithful social investigator hit the streets with the Inventor's Toolkit in hand to explore the opening of the new [Freespace] (1011 Market... Tessa Finlev on new networks of nonviolence In Greek Mythology, Icarus was able to fly on wings made of wax and feathers, but he flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax, and he fell into... What do Californians care about? Beyond the hype, the scandal, and the early failures, there still lies the promise of a new way of organizing and shaping the world. Check out highlights from our recent past and near future! Now that we can build anything, we should stop asking “what can we make?”
My Science Fiction Life - Dystopias I hate the world and want to go home: the dystopia, British science fiction’s cautionary tale. Before we all start worrying too much about living in a nanny state, under constant CCTV surveillance, threatened by terrorism at every turn and bombarded by an ever-more-invasive media, it should be noted that things stand to get a lot, lot worse. Or at least they do in the imaginings of the great British dystopian writers and filmmakers of the past century: HG Wells, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess all revelled in projecting their fears for the future of society onto the pages of their classic novels: The Time Machine (1895), Brave New World (1932), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) and A Clockwork Orange (1962). Filmmakers Ridley Scott and Terry Gilliam (honorary Brit) had a similar coruscating effect in the world of cinema with Blade Runner (1982) and Brazil (1985). Science fiction’s deepest roots lie in the great utopian writers, from Plato to Thomas Moore.
Shutdown of thermohaline circulation A summary of the path of the thermohaline circulation. Blue paths represent deep-water currents, while red paths represent surface currents A shutdown or slowdown of the thermohaline circulation is a postulated effect of global warming. Thermohaline circulation and fresh water[edit] The red end of the spectrum indicates slowing in this presentation of the trend of velocities derived from NASA Pathfinder altimeter data from May 1992 to June 2002. Some even fear that global warming may be able to trigger the type of abrupt massive temperature shifts which occurred during the last glacial period: a series of Dansgaard-Oeschger events – rapid climate fluctuations – may be attributed to freshwater forcing at high latitude interrupting the THC. Studies of the Florida Current suggest that the Gulf Stream weakens with cooling, being weakest (by ~10%) during the Little Ice Age.[13] Measurements in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2010[edit] Bryden measurements reported late 2005[edit] See also[edit]
2013AbiOberberg - home SEARCH : Study of Environmental Arctic Change About the Sea Ice Outlook Fractured Sea Ice The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook is an international effort to provide a community-wide summary of the expected September arctic sea ice minimum. Monthly reports released throughout the summer synthesize community estimates of the current state and expected minimum of sea ice—at both a pan-arctic and regional scale. The intent of the SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook effort is not to issue predictions, but rather to summarize all available data and observations to provide the scientific community, stakeholders, and the public the best available information on the evolution of arctic sea ice. Sea Ice Outlook activities are supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and through the volunteer efforts of contributors. Guidelines for Contributors Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO) Sea Ice Outlook Background
Answering Globalization with Global Learning That question aptly set the stage for a two-day conference on “Developing Global Competencies in Higher Education,” held at Fairleigh Dickinson’s College at Florham April 4 and 5. Designed to foster a dialogue among educators about global education and global citizenship, the program was sponsored by the University’s Office of Interdisciplinary, Distributed and Global Learning and the Internationalization Collaborative of the American Council on Education (ACE) — and supported by a grant from the AT&T Foundation. Speakers included Adams, current and former United Nations ambassadors; a sociology professor who has written two books on globalization; a leading international advocate from ACE; a veteran study-abroad administrator; key members of FDU’s global education efforts, particularly faculty involved in using technology to bring the world to the classroom; and members of the University’s innovative Global Virtual Faculty program. A Need for Global Citizenship Defining the Skills