Teaching Climate & Energy Law & PolicyAnother excellent resource for responding to the arguments of skeptics is Skeptics Arguments and What the Science Says. Incidentally, the site on which this piece is posted, Skeptical Science, is devoted to critiquing the arguments of skeptics.
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FYI, China’s new mandate on renewable energy: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091226/sc_afp/chinaenergyclimate, obliging the grid to purchase ALL power produced by renewable energy sources.
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For those of you looking for an excellent piece confronting the most pervasive arguments of climate skeptics, Scientific American has published an excellent new piece: Rennie, Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense, Nov. 30, 2009. The article responds to seven skeptic arguments:
GHGs are too minor a part of the atmosphere to be driving warming;
The alleged [...]
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For those of you looking for student readings with diverse viewpoints, you might check out the publication Tiempo’s Climate Newswatch. This week’s focus is on the results from Copenhagen, and includes articles from sources such as Channel News Asia, the Hindu, and the New Zealand Herald, as well as the BBC, the Guardian, and press [...]
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The latest canard from the climate denial community, apparently hoping to build a head of steam after “Climategate,” is that the Hadley Centre in the UK has been suppressing Russian climatic data, an allegation originally made by the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis. An excellent response can be found on Tim Lambert’s blog. The most [...]
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In a new study in Nature Geoscience, Daniel Lunt, et. al. provide disconcerting evidence, based on paleoclimatic data, that the IPCC may be substantially underestimating the response of the Earth system to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. The researchers contrast the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s emphasis on so-called fast short-term feedback mechanisms )the so-called [...]
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Online magazine : IV419 – December 2009
Climate Change
Copenhagen: Collapse at the summit, rank-and-file victory
Daniel Tanuro
We knew the United Nations summit in Copenhagen would not conclude with a new international treaty but a simple statement of intent – just one more. [...]
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Last week Wil Burns commented on the “climate-gate” controversy noting that it is an important issue because “perception can be reality.” A couple of recent news articles shed a bit of light on just how important this may be. The Washington Post reports poll results showing that “four in 10 Americans now saying that they place [...]
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Lester Brown’s Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing Now to Save Civilization is now available online. The chapters on climate change are excellent, including some really inspiring prescriptions for addressing the issue that could be good readings for students toward the end of a course when they may be feeling pretty bummed about their future
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Many of you have probably used Spencer Weart’s The Discovery of Global Warming in your classes; the book, now in its second edition, remains the definitive source on the history of climate change scientific research, as well as one of the best sources for explaining the operation of GCMs. Now, Weart has developed an extensive [...]
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