Two of Dana's posts, Rose and Curry Double Down on Global Warming Denial and Climate of Doubt and Escalator Updates, were tied for the most number of comments posted by SkS readers during the week.
SkS apologizes for the difficulties many users experienced in accessing the site during the past week. On Sunday last, the site was transferred to a new host server and certain technical glitches ensued. Most have been ironed out.
When and how did you first become concerned about manamde climate change and its consequences?
"Many political observers are not especially surprised that climate change has gotten short shrift in this campaign. In general, environmental concerns tend to rise in the public mind in times of prosperity and sink in hard times. And polling suggests that, while most voters believe climate change is real, they see it as a long-term threat and therefore put it far down their list of priorities for action."
Source: The Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Justin Gillis, New York Times, Oct 23, 2012
In the most exciting example of SkS in the news this week, The Escalator was featured on the excellent PBS Frontline program Climate of Doubt.
The Debunking Handbook and Lewandowsky et al. (2012), co-authored by John Cook, were featured in a RealClearReligion post.
Dana's Matt Ridley - Wired for Lukewarm Catastrophe was quoted in the November 2012 issue of WIRED magazine.
Dana's Rose and Curry Double Down on Global Warming Denial was endorsed as "an excellent post" by Tamino on Open Mind.
Enivronment Guru reposted both last week's new research and weekly digest posts.
Michael Mann endorsed SkS as one of the go-to sites for real-time debunkings of climate nonsense.
The Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) is a joint initiative of four international global environmental change research programmes:
The Partnership allows for an integrated study of the Earth System, the ways that it is changing, and the implications for global and regional sustainability.
The central activities of the ESSP are Joint Projects on issues of global sustainability, designed to address the global environmental change aspects of four critical issues for human well-being: energy and the carbon cycle (GCP), food security (GECAFS), water resources (GWSP) and human health (GEC&HH). The ESSP is also currently developing a small set of Integrated Regional Studies (IRS), designed to contribute sound scientific understanding in support of sustainable development at the local level. The first study is in Monsoon Asia (MAIRS). The Joint Projects, START and MAIRS all have a strong suite of capacity building and networking elements to their activities. ESSP Partners also collaborate closely with the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI).
Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 29 October, 2012
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