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Global Warming

  • Climate Change: The Oceans Response

    This guest article is a PowerPoint presentation given by Dr. Rick Cowlishaw in April at the Citizens’ Climate Education meeting in Wichita. Dr. Cowlishaw is Professor of Biology at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. He describes how the warming oceans, altered ocean currents, sea level rise, and ocean acidification are affecting the oceans, marine life, and eventually… Read more

  • James Taylor: EDF's Top 10 Global Warming Lies – Or Not

    James Taylor has published an opinion piece in Forbes about the Top 10 Global Warming Lies put forward by “climate alarmists” in response to the Environmental Defense Fund’s mailer, “10 Global Warming Effects That May Shock You,”. The EDF’s positions sound very much like the things you read in reputable news sources and peer-reviewed science… Read more

  • Newsflash: The Earth's Temperature Is Still Going up

    Conservative politicians and columnists like to say,”The Earth’s temperature hasn’t gone up since 1998″. That is certainly wrong, as explained in this article. Read more

  • PowerPoint Presentation: The Citizens' Climate Lobby

    This PowerPoint presentation explains the carbon fee and dividend as proposed by the Citizens Climate Lobby. The plan, with broad bipartisan support in US would place a fee on carbon at the source and allow market forces to encourage reduced emissions, energy conservation and investments in renewable energy. Read more

  • Thermodynamics Says There Is No "Hiatus "in Global Warming

    There is no “hiatus” in global warming. Claiming that “global warming has paused”, is badly misleading as the amount of energy in the Earth’s systems is still increasing. Read more

  • Bits and Pieces: Two Misguided Attacks on Wind Turbines and Electric Cars

    The Tulsa World recently published two back-to-back articles discouraging investment in renewable energy for poor reasons, as described in this article. One decried bird mortality from wind turbines while the other pointed out that electric cars wouldn’t help, so why try? Read more

  • Evidence Linking Global Warming and Extreme Weather

    Skeptics who wish to argue that climate scientists cannot prove the link between global warming and extreme weather, do not understand the role of probabilities. As Kevin Trenberth says, “All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be…. ” Read more

  • Global Warming and Pine Beetle Damage

    Because of global warming, the pine bark beetle has expanded its range northward and to higher elevations. The warmer temperatures allow the beetles to produce an extra generation some years, causing an exponential growth in their numbers and in the damage they do to pine forests. Read more

  • Media Bias: Why the Public Is Confused about Climate Change

    There is a clear consensus among climate scientists about the causes and dangers of global warming, but there is much confusion among the general public and among politicians. This article points out that much of the confusion is caused by a direct campaign to spread doubt, aided by media sources which treat it as a… Read more

  • Global Warming: The North Carolina Solution

    The North Carolina legislature recently passed HB 819, which forbids scientific studies of sea level rise along the coast of North Carolina for four years. What could the studies possibly find that would lead to such a moratorium? Read more