2012 SkS Weekly Digest #9

SkS Highlights

Based on the number of comments posted to date, Keith Pickering's Wall Street Journal 'Skeptics' Misrepresent the IPCC and Tom Curtis' Greenhouse Effect Basics: Warm Earth, Cold Atmosphere were the two most popular articles posted this past week. Dana's The Certainty Monster vs. The Uncertainty Ewok and Dikran Marsupial's The Independence of Global Warming on Residence Time of CO2 also generated a goodly number of comments.

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The Week in Review

A complete listing of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. 

  • Oceans Acidifying Faster Today Than in Past 300 Million Years by John Hartz
  • Roy Spencer's Junk Science by Barry Bickmore
  • Warming to Ignite the Carbon Bomb by Stephen Leahy
  • Wall Street Journal 'Skeptics' Misrepresent the IPCC by Keith Pickering
  • Nordhaus Sets the Record Straight - Climate Mitigation Saves Money by Dana
  • The Certainty Monster vs. The Uncertainty Ewok by Dana
  • The Independence of Global Warming on Residence Time of CO2 by Dikran Marsupial
  • Greenhouse Effect Basics: Warm Earth, Cold Atmosphere by Tom Curtis
  • New research from last week 8/2012 by Ari Jokimäki
  • Mythbusting with fewer explosions by John Cook
  • DenialGate - Highlighting Bob Carter's Selective Science by Dana 
  • 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

  • PMO Pest Control (Robert Way, Albatross, Andy S)
  • New research from last week 9/2012 (Ari Jokimäki)
  • Lindzen's London Illusions (Dana)
  • A Sunburnt Country (Glenn Tramblyn)
  • Douglass & Knox 2012 pre-bunked (Rob Painting and Dana)
  • The History of Climate Science - William Charles Wells (Doc Snow)
  • Methane - Part 1 (Agnostic)
  • Prediction: New Surface Temperature Record in 2013 (Dana)
  • Declining Arctic sea-ice and record U.S. and European snowfalls: are they linked? (John Mason)
  • Changing Climates, Changing Minds: The Personal (Andy S)
  • Changing Climates, Changing Minds: The Political (Andy S)
  • SkS in the News

    Rob Painting's Search For 'Missing Heat' Confirms More Global Warming 'In The Pipeline' was re-posted on Climate Progress.

    A podcast interview with John Cook was posted on Climate Progress, IBTimes, and Media Lens Message Board.

    John's Mythbusting event was highlighted on ABC Environment.

    Dana's post on Nordhaus setting the record straight was re-posted on PlanetSave and Cleantechnica.

    SkS Spotlights 

    TckTckTck is the public campaign of the Global Campaign for Climate Action. The GCCA is an unprecedented alliance of more than 300 non-profit organizations all over the world. Our shared mission is to mobilize civil society and galvanize public support to ensure a safe climate future for people and nature, to promote the low-carbon transition of our economies, and to accelerate the adaptation efforts in communities already affected by climate change.

    Climate change is a huge challenge for the entire planet, but the solutions to tackle it are available today. More and more people, businesses, investors and governments endorse these solutions, reaping the benefits of new lifestyles, smart investments and climate-friendly policies. Together we work to grow this movement for change, building a strong public mandate for bold political decisions that will make our vision of a sustainable future become a reality.

    The GCCA was born from conversations between internationally-respected campaigners and advocates representing environmental, development, and social justice NGO’s. These climate activists concluded that the fight against climate change needed a boost by uniting a diversity of organizations to create public campaigns particularly in countries where additional mobilizing capacity was needed.

    tcktcktck logo

    The GCCA was formed in 2008 and started campaigning in early 2009 with the goal to secure a fair, ambitious and binding climate treaty at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen. One of the newer members of the GCCA, Kofi Annan’s Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), offered the use of the new TckTckTck open source logo and marketing campaign which had been designed by Euro RSCG, an international advertising agency who donated their time to create the logo. TckTckTck thus became the shared brand for the new climate alliance.

    The GCCA is not a coalition in the traditional sense of the word, as we do not negotiate common policy positions beyond what is contained in our central Call-to-Action. We focus on what unites us and not on what divides us, and partner organizations are free to engage with the campaign in ways that best suit their own strengths. The NGO movement united under the TckTckTck banner has kept growing ever since it started, inspiring people all over the world to take action in the race to the low-carbon future.

    Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 5 March, 2012


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