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As to be expected, Dana's Sense and climate sensitivity – more evidence we're in for a hot future attracted the most comments of the articles posted on SkS duirng the past week. "Climate sensitivity" is always a hot-button topic for many climate science geeks and faux climate science geeks.
NASA satellites and ocean sensors are showing that sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean this May look similar to the conditions in May 1997 that resulted in one of the strongest El Niño events of the last century during the fall and winter of 1997-98.
El Niño conditions usually cause milder and warmer winters in the Pacific Northwest.
Strongest El Nino in 17 years brewing: Oregon weather watch by Stuart Tomlinson, The Oregonian, May 15, 2014
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
California Governor Jerry Brown linked his state’s severe drought and wildfires to climate change on Sunday, saying California was “on the front lines” of the warming problem.
Brown said on ABC’s This Week that though California’s wildfires are relatively under control right now, the state is “in a very serious fire season” — one that’s seen about twice as many fires this year as the average — and future control of the fires depends largely on the weather. He said that as the climate changes in California, the state will need thousands more firefighters and California residents will have to be more careful about where and how they build.
“As we send billions and billions of tons of heat-trapping gases, we get heat and we get fires and we get what we’re seeing,” he said. “So, we’ve got to gear up. We’re going to deal with nature as best we can, but humanity is on a collision course with nature and we’re just going to have to adapt to it in the best way we can.”
California Gov. On Drought, Wildfires: ‘Humanity Is On A Collision Course With Nature’ by Katie Valentine, Climate Progress, May 19, 2014
Joshua Holland, concludes his Moyers & Company article, Eight Pseudoscientific Climate Claims Debunked by Real Scientists with the following:
These are only some of the most common pseudoscientific climate arguments. The Skeptical Science website provides easy-to-understand scientific rebuttals to these and 168 others.
Holland also cites and links to Nuccitelli et al. (2012) Show that Global Warming Continues.
The Basic version of the SkS Rebuttal article, Is there a scientific consensus on global warming? is also cited and linked to by Holland.
In his NBC News blog post, Get a Reality Check on the Antarctic Meltdown and Rising Sea Level, Alan Boyle cites and links to the intermediate version of the SkS rebuttal article, Is Antarctica losing or gaining ice?
Bab Lacatena's Four-Hiro-Bombs-per-Second widget is cited and lanked to in David Goldstein's Interview with a Climate Vampire post on the Huffington Post.
In her Media Matters blog post, The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Fatalistic Climate Rhetoric, Denise Robins refers her readers to the Home Page of the SkS website. Robbins also interviewed Dana and quoted him in the article.
John Cook's Skeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature is cited and linked to by Chris Mooney in his Mother Jones article, Watch: John Oliver and Bill Nye Show Why Cable News Climate "Debates" Are So Ridiculous.
In his Climate Progress blog post, The 97 Percent: Watch John Oliver’s Hilarious ‘Statistically Representative Climate Change Debate’ Joe Romm cites and links to the SkS article, Infographic: 97 out of 100 climate experts think humans are causing global warming. Romm's article is also reprinted on Oil Price.com.
The Global Climate and Health Alliance was formed in Durban in 2011 to tackle climate change and to protect and promote public health.
The Alliance consists of health organizations from around the world united by a shared vision for a sustainable future. Specifically the Alliance members work together to:
The Alliance does this through:
The Alliance was launched following the inaugural Climate and Health summit, which took place during the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Alliance members meet annually at the conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
Climate change lawsuits filed against some 200 US communities by Mica Rosenberg, Reuters/The Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 2014
Insuring the apocalypse by McKenzie Funk, The New Yorker, May 15, 2014
Second Confirmed Case of MERS in U.S.
“U.S. health officials said on Monday a second case of MERS, a deadly virus first discovered in the Middle East, has been confirmed in the state of Florida.” Here’s what you need to know about the virus that kills half the people it infects. [Reuters]
h/t to The Huffington Post
Posted by John Hartz on Tuesday, 20 May, 2014
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