John Cook and Dana's 4 Hiroshima bombs worth of heat per second metaphor has become a "sticky image" worldwide. Needless to say, it garnered the highest number of comments of all the articles posted on SkS during the past week. If you have not yet read the article, you will want to do so. Toward the end of the article, John throws down the guantlet to all readers to come up with a stickier metaphor. To date, none of the commentors have done so.
The WMO secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, said: "A decade is the minimum possible timeframe for meaningful assessments of climate change.
"WMO's report shows that global warming accelerated in the four decades of 1971 to 2010 and that the decadal rate of increase between 1991-2000 and 2001-2010 was unprecedented."
He added: "Rising concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are changing our climate, with far-reaching implications for our environment and our oceans, which are absorbing both carbon dioxide and heat."
Unprecedented climate extremes marked last decade, says UN by Alex Kirby for the Climate News Network, The Guardian, July 3, 2013
The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climateextremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming. More national temperature records were reported broken than in any previous decade, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The report, The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of ClimateExtremes, analysed global and regional temperatures and precipitation, as well as extreme events such as the heat waves in Europe and Russia, Hurricane Katrina in the United States of America, Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, droughts in the Amazon Basin, Australia and East Africa and floods in Pakistan.
Climate Spectator published John Cook's Our oceans are heating up and Agnostics, deniers and genuine scientific sceptics. They also used several SkS resources in A chat with Abbott’s climate sceptic business adviser.
Dana's Media Overlooking 90% of Global Warming was re-posted on Climate Progress.
The 4 Hiroshima per second equivalency was used by The Green Optimistic and The Courier.
Grist made use of The Escalator and Kevin C's 16 ^ more years of global warming.
Greanpeace UK used David Rose Hides the Rise in Global Warming to debunk David Rose's latest nonsense.
Fair Media Alliance referenced John Cook's Tony Abbott denies climate change and advocates carbon tax in the same breath.
The Earth Policy Institute (EPI) was founded in 2001 by Lester Brown, the founder and former president of the Worldwatch Institute, to provide a plan of a sustainable future along with a roadmap of how to get from here to there. EPI works at the global level simply because no country can fully implement a Plan B economy in isolation.
EPI’s goals are:
Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 7 July, 2013
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