Posts Tagged ‘Global Warming’
Climate Change
May 10, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »The Vatican takes on climate change: it’s cheaper to fix now
The Vatican Pontifical Academy of Sciences has just released a strongly worded report (PDF) on global climate change demanding in the strongest possible language that humans act decisively to avert a coming crisis. “We call on all people and nations to recognize the [...]
Warning
April 28, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »From 2007:
Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts
NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth’s climate warms.
Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will be more common in a warmer climate, but few global [...]
Tectonic
April 14, 2011Henry Baum No Comments »via Alternet:
Scientists have for the first time shown a link between intensifying climate events and tectonic plate movement in findings that could provide a valuable insight into why huge tremors occur. [...]
An Australian-led team of researchers from France and Germany found that the strengthening Indian monsoon had accelerated movement of the Indian plate over the [...]
Climate Zombies
November 23, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »More zombies – these are the real intellectually dead people who are going to destroy the planet. And a big reason why zombies are such a recurrent theme in pop culture, along with the apocalypse. There are dead people walking around all over the place, willing to eat the planet alive.
Rep. Inglis: Voters saw [...]
Leslie Kean vs. James Oberg vs. Bad Astronomer
September 7, 2010Henry Baum 5 Comments »Leslie Kean has responded to James Oberg’s review of her book on MSNBC. Oberg is a famous debunker – not a skeptic, a debunker, i.e. someone who looks to disprove something no matter the evidence. His criticism was pretty lightweight – his claim is that because pilots can have skewed perception, this means [...]
Three Documentaries
July 6, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »Recently watched three documentaries that paint a pretty alarming picture of the state of things. But also bring to mind the activism on the right against financial regulation, environmental regulation, or changing tactics in the War on Terror. Maybe if tea baggers watched these documentaries, they’d realize the hole that bad government has [...]
Oil!
June 25, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »A must read from the Huffington Post:
Extracting oil from the ground has almost always been disastrous for the people who live nearby. The only thing that is unusual about this morphing of “Drill, Baby, Drill” into “Spill, Baby, Spill” is that, this time, the world noticed the victims. From the Niger Delta [...]
Climategate
June 10, 2010Henry Baum 2 Comments »As instructive about how the viral web operates as it is about climate science.
More: Climate Denial Crock of the Week.



