2012 SkS Weekly Digest #1
Posted on 9 January 2012 by John Hartz
Issue of the Week
The SkS author team is evaluating whether or not to make changes to the current Comments Policy. From your perspecive, how would you rate the current policy and its application by SkS moderators? What changes do you believe should be made to either the policy and/or its application?
SkS Highlights
SkS's most prolific author, Dana, posted two articles. The first, A Big Picture Look at Global Warming, provides lines of evidence showing that the planet is not only warming, but it's also warming at a rapid rate. Dana's second article, Skepticism About Lower Atmosphere Temperature Data, is a correction to an op-ed by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute that wwas recently posted on the Forbes magazine website. As one would expect, the guest post by Peter Gleick, The 2011 Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards, generated a good bit of commentary.
Toon of the Week
The Week in Review
A complete listing of the articles posted on SkS during the past week.
- 2011 Expected to be Second Warmest Year on Record for the UK by John Hartz
- Skepticism About Lower Atmosphere Temperature Data by Dana
- Global Warming: Trend and Variation by Tom Curtis
- The 2011 Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards by Peter Gleick
- A Big Picture Look at Global Warming by Dana
- Myth of the Mini Ice Age by Rob Honeycutt
- Quantifying Extreme Heat Events by Michael Sweet
Coming Soon
A list of articles that are in the SkS pipeline. Most of these articles, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week.
- 2011 Year in Review (Part 2) (MarkR)
- New research from last week 1/2012 (Ari Jokimäki)
- Lean and Rind Estimate Man-Made and Natural Global Warming (Dana)
- U.S. 2011: The Wet Get Wetter, the Dry Get Dryer (Tom Smerling)
- Climate Change Denial and the Media - Banishment of Science Reality (Brian Purdue)
- A Comprehensive Review of the Causes of Global Warming (Dana)
- Arctic Methane Outgassing on the East Siberian Shelf: Part 1 - the Background (John Mason)
- Glaciers have retreated worldwide (MarkR)
- RW Wood and the Greenhouse Effect (Eli Rabbett)
SkS in the News
Dana's article Skepticism is a Two Way Street was published by TreeHugger.
SkS Spotlights
Yale Environment 360 is an online magazine offering opinion, analysis, reporting and debate on global environmental issues. It features original articles by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people, as well as multimedia content and a daily digest of major environmental news.
Yale Environment 360 is published by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale University. It is funded in part by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
From muoncounter @ 32: What makes this award-winning behavior is that it is pure unvarnished hypocrisy. From Albatross @ 40: The contrarian, professional slanderer of climate scientists and cherry picker Steve McIntyre.From the Comments Policy: No politics. Rants about politics, religion, faith, ideology or one world governments will be deleted.From Mond from Oz @ 24: ...it involves some aspects of 'World Government' And its in the context of a growing realisation that we inevitably face an end to 'Growth', and with that, the collapse of capitalism. Beyond the consequences of drought and storm and shortage, which, despite denial they can see as well as we, lies the challenge to the established hierarchies of government, religion and social order.I assume most of us accept the Law of Non-Contradiction as fundamental to scientific endeavour. Indeed, the BS awards hinge upon the premise that the BS laureates contradict themselves. Would it be too much to ask for similar rigour in the application of the comments policy?[DB] Note that this comment was originally deleted for tone-trolling, but has been reinstated due to popular demand.
Given the nature of this thread more latitude is being given than usual in enforcement of the Comments Policy.
Note: This does not give any license nor free rein to not adhere to the policy; any comment not conforming to the policy at the discretion of the moderator may be summarily deleted without warning.
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[DB] Note that the existing comments box does contain a spell-check feature (words not in the dictionary are underlined with a wavy red line per Word).