Posted on September 6th, 2009 by admin
I first saw this on Net-Cool which is a great site to subscribe to for finding really interesting things on the web.
This movie explains some of the reasons of concern for monitoring the increase in temperatures that we have felt since the 1960s. It is very well done and enjoyable to watch. Unlike An Inconvenient Truth, it admits that this is not pure imagery but some CGI has been done.
If you can handle the bandwidth, you will see better graphics here rather than watching the embedded YouTube video below.
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by admin
I have talked about RealClimate.org many times in the past. In general, the gentlemen over there are pretty smart but they do tend to be one-sided in their analysis. They consistently take the side of “global warming is caused by humans” and they don’t treat others with much respect.
I started questioning their partisanship when they lashed out at the UK judge that said that “An Inconvenient Truth” was not 100% factual. They didn’t like me calling them out on that. They then spiked some of my comments on their site when degraded scientific discussion to a challenge of who has a bigger wallet. Read more... (2445 words, estimated 9:47 mins reading time)
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Climatologist slams RealClimate.org for ‘erroneously communicating the reality of the how climate system is actually behaving’ – Rebuts Myths On Sea Level, Oceans and Arctic Ice
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Posted on May 19th, 2009 by admin
I am shocked and dismayed! (Not really – just being a bit sarcastic and melodramatic)
One of the foundations of predicting the climate is that we have some idea of how water moves around the planet. That water can be in the form of water vapor or liquid water that is flowing in streams, lakes and the oceans. Since the Earth is approximately 2/3 water and water vapor is the single largest greenhouse gas, the way it acts is very important for understanding climate and predicting the future of climate. Read more... (708 words, estimated 2:50 mins reading time)
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Posted on April 10th, 2009 by admin
There is a new site on the Internet that may be interesting to you. Check out Climate Depot. It is being run by Marc Morano who used to be the PR aide to the Republican minority leader of the US Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee.
Mr. Morano is a bit controversial. Mr. Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, does not seem to like him too much. I guess that is okay since I have been a pretty big critic of the exaggerations of Mr. Gore myself and I even increased the number of “apparent falsehoods” that he told in his award winning movie “An Inconvenient Truth“. I doubt if Mr. Gore would take his picture with me either even though I have defended him at least once. Read more... (144 words, estimated 35 secs reading time)
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by admin
There is a lot of controversy over this. I really don’t know the right answer. Is it okay for a film maker to have scenes in a documentary that are not what the narrator is discussing? My gut says that this happens all of the time. Also, there was no question in my mind when I saw AIT that this portion of the film was CGI.
Of course, I didn’t know that it came from the movie “Day After Tomorrow” at the time but then I didn’t watch the credits and I am sure that he mentions them in the credits. I have long lost my copy of the movie so I can’t check that fact. If someone still has their copy of the DVD, please skip through to the end and check to see if the proper credit is given. You can leave a comment below to let us all know the truth. Read more... (254 words, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by admin
Breitbart.com – July 10, 2008
This is quite concerning. Most of the instability in the ice shelves in Antarctica have been during the summer. Now it appears that this shelf is in danger even though the continent is currently undergoing winter. There have been a rash of shelves collapsing and Nobel Prize winner, Al Gore, spoke of this in his film “An Inconvenient Truth”. It is not conclusive why ice shelves collapse but it is important for us to explore these situations.
It appears that this shelf is being “eroded” underneath by warm waters. This is likely the cause of the rapid failure of the other shelves as well. Interestingly, some of the other shelves exhibited water pooling on the surface before their collapse but there is no mention of this situation in this article.
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by admin
CBS News – March 27, 2008
Former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore has called the current Vice President of the United States, Mr. Dick Cheney, a “flat-earther” and compares him to “the one who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat”. Mr. Gore did go on to say that judgement was a little demeaning but not far off.
I am not surprised that Mr. Gore has made these statements. His film “An Inconvenient Truth” is full of exaggerations and misstatements. For him to exaggerate and compartmentalize people who have legitimate concerns about the global warming discussion is not surprising. Read more... (353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by admin
I enjoy emails from readers of this site. My contact information is in the About page and the comments and encouragement I receive makes this site a joy to run. I recently received an email from Brittany C asking four questions. Brittany is allowing me to publish her questions and my answers. These answers are a combination of scientific fact with conjecture and opinion from me.
Question 1: Why is the warming that has taken place in this past decade been such a big deal when there seems to be a similar warming trend in the 1930s? Is there a difference between the two?
Great question. I am going to break it up into 3 parts: Read more... (860 words, 1 image, estimated 3:26 mins reading time)
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Posted on February 7th, 2008 by admin
Watts Up With That – January 25, 2008
Watts Up With That recently did an analysis and sparked a great deal of discussion on the possible causes of global warming. The analysis was done based on the paper “US Temperatures and Climate Factors since 1895″ written by Mr. D’Aleo, a meteorologist, AMS Fellow, and Executive Director of ICECAP.
The paper and commentary is about the correlation between CO2 and the average temperature as well as the average temperature with solar activity. The true discussion should be about causality since that is the important issue. However it is a logical discussion that without correlation there may not be any causality. Read more... (437 words, 1 image, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by admin
Reuters – January 23. 2008
What in the world is going on here?!?!?! Do we understand so little about our climate and environment that we can’t even figure out for sure if hurricanes are going to be less frequent or more frequent with global warming? I repeat my call for more effort to truly understand our climate before we spend trillions of dollars to try and change the environment – a sum that will likely cause the death of thousands of people.
This also flies directly into the face of former Vice President Al Gore and his film “An Inconvenient Truth” perhaps Mr. Gore should consider giving back his Nobel since one of his strongest statements and most concerning images in the movie was the certainty that hurricanes would increase and cause more catastrophes such as New Orleans. Read more... (481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)
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