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Playing with fire from cassandra05 116 days old

“Undoubtedly the science is changing. Anyone who plots a learning curve – and we have all been plotting these things for years – would be able to tell ...

Six degrees, here we come from cassandra05 250 days old

What a five degree global average temperature rise looks like: What six degrees’ global average temperature rise looks like: What business-as-usual ...

Climate change: it’s not (just) the economy, stupid from cassandra05 355 days old

[ ... ] for popular science authorship – and compare its predictions with the already rapidly-accumulating evidence of a climate more sensitive and under ...

This watchdog’s got no teeth from cassandra05 482 days old

My letter to the Telegraph, sent earlier today: Sir - In commenting on Ofcom’s ruling on Channel 4’s “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, David Hughes ...

Sound science from cassandra05 508 days old

At last - someone’s prepared to talk some sense on the shape-shifting Nazi lizard conspiracy responsible for climate change. It’s about time, say I. ...

Blasts from the past from cassandra05 517 days old

[ ... ] the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence’, a month after the company itself admits and reneges on at least some of ...

Two films from cassandra05 532 days old

For anyone interested in that sort of thing, the most recent Prospect/Foreign Policy poll of the world’s top public intellectuals has now closed, and ...

A plea for sanity from cassandra05 608 days old

NASA climate scientist James Hansen has just co-authored a draft paper (“Target CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?”), published on his website, on the targets ...

Burning ambitions from cassandra05 613 days old

[ ... ] for Science, Stanford, USA, published in Geophysical Research Letters, found that “[g]reenhouse gas emissions will have to be eliminated ...

Drifting towards catastrophe, still waiting for someone else to act from cassandra05 652 days old

From Climate Code Red: Summary • The extensive melting of Arctic sea-ice in the northern summer of 2007 starkly demonstrated that serious climate-change ...