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Top Down Climate Wrangling

The Doha climate summit has closed without much progress. Advocates, politicians, and negotiators, flew half way around the world to discuss how terrible the climate change situation is, and agree to...

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Manipulating the Masses

When does persuasion go too far? When does it become manipulation? If you think long about it, the difference is subtle. Persuasion is more organic and open. Manipulation is more pre-planned and...

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Recent AGW Rumblings

I have been covering and studying the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) ”situation” (science, media, politics) for over a decade now, yet I am continually amazed at the twists-n-turns of the topic and...

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Extreme Weather Then & Now

There is a lot of talk recently about how “extreme” the weather is now, and how it will get so much more “extreme” in the future (even more specualtion here). There are certainly some robust theories...

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Looking on the Bight Side

And now a little time for a segment known as “maybe-it-is-not-as-bad-as-originally-thought”. I do these from time-to-time because some new studies can promote a lot of sensationalized reports in the...

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Bad for Science

A couple of really bad “science” stories have hit the media recently. One involves liability and the other dishes out mostly propaganda. Perhaps you already heard about this one involving the liability...

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Protesting AGW

You might have seen some of the scenes of recent pollution in China. The air quality was so bad in Bejing a couple of weeks ago that they could not even “chart” it. The pollution was so bad that it was...

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The Efficacy of Climate Meetings

I almost pulled my hair out the other day. I know, there isn’t much left to pull out, but what little is left was close to removal. In a world full of many things you could pull-your-hair-out over,...

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Climate News Galore

Some interesting anthropogenic global warming (AGW) news has made some headlines recently. A lot has to do with pinning the blame (or not) on human activities. In recent years, the media, “climate...

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The News Is Not All Bad

An interesting projection of arctic vegetation changes was published recently. As you can imagine, if the arctic continues to warm, more trees will grow. The study expects up to 50% more trees in...

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Energy Efficiency in the USA

There was quite a stir in media, climate, and environmentalist circles recently when carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere as measured atop the mountain at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii reached 400...

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Feeding the World

I while back, I heralded Norman Borlaug in the blog for finding a solution to feeding the world’s growing population. Some might argue that creating a new strain of wheat with a higher yield was not...

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An Under-Reported Story

One of the most under-reported environmental stories of the last couple of years is the decrease in carbon emissions in the U.S. It is surprising (to some). It has defied almost every prediction,...

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Lots of Rain

Some interesting things happening in Northcentral Wisconsin lately. We had the latest ever date in our snowmelt contest this year. In case you did not hear, the snow finally melted on June 30th. It did...

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More Deciphering Results

With the large volume of scientific studies being published every day, it can be hard to understand or decipher it all. Many times it seems like a new research result will contradict an older study,...

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Peak Oil – A Busted Theory?

One of the issues I have followed over the last few years, almost a decade really, is the Peak Oil scenario. I became interested in the issue as it relates to energy and pollution. I even interviewed...

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Rising Seas

Once again we come across some anthropogenic global warming (AGW) analysis, theory, and opinion using words like “irreversible”, “locked in” and “inevitable”. This theme has resurfaced in regards to...

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Interesting AGW Tidbits

Remember when potential influence of cosmic rays on cloud formation and climate was pilloried, when researchers pursuing this interesting angle of physics were essentially ”laughed out of the room”,...

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Climate Change News

          Perhaps you’ve heard that the latest report of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released on September 26th.  Actually they released the first of four sections.  It is...

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AGW Lawsuits Again & Again

The interesting issue of climate reparations has reared its head again during the recent United Nations climate talks in Poland last week. I have ruminated more in-depth on this issue before. The basic...

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