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  • Funding A Climate of Denial

    Created: Wednesday, 31 March 2010 21:59 Author: G J Lau
    Greenpeace International just published a report singling out Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States, as a major contributor (to the tune of $50 million) to companies that Greenpeace describes as "climate-denial fr...

  • 100 People

    Created: Friday, 26 March 2010 21:51 Author: G J Lau
    Every once in a while you come across an idea so elegant in its simplicity that you are gobsmacked, as the British would say. Donella Meadows, then a Dartmouth professor, had just such an idea back in 1990. She proposed looking at the world as a village ...

  • Global Warming: Weighing the Risks

    Created: Tuesday, 23 March 2010 00:30 Author: G J Lau
    I love this guy Bjørn Lomborg. His position is that global warming is real but that we should treat it just like any other problem. To him this seems to come down to a cost-benefit analysis where too high a cost for the cure may be worse than the disease...

  • Fixing The Climate

    Created: Thursday, 18 March 2010 22:47 Author: G J Lau
    Most problems are attacked along two separate tracks. We try either to cure the symptoms or the disease. Climate change is no different. Two recent articles highlight the dangers and the differences in each approach. The first article discusses seeding t...

  • Climate Change: Who Do You Trust?

    Created: Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:13 Author: G J Lau
    Visitors to this site will quickly find that I believe that emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases released into the atmosphere as a result of human activities are warming the earth. This is turn is driving climate changes that could drastically affe...

  • Public Opinion and Global Warming

    Created: Friday, 12 March 2010 11:54 Author: G J Lau
    Gallup has released its annual poll on Americans' attitudes toward environmental issues.  The results show a continued decline in the concern over the reality or impact of global warming. Almost half of those polled think the seriousness of global warmin...

  • Of Clamshells and Artificial Brains

    Created: Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:51 Author: G J Lau
    I came across an interesting article about using isotope levels in ancient clamshells to get a better idea about climate change. Turns out the level of certain isotopes varies depending on the temperature of the water in which the clamshell is growing. Th...

  • Climate Change: Little Things That Make A Big Difference

    Created: Monday, 08 March 2010 01:26 Author: G J Lau
    As a non-scientist writing occasional pieces that sometimes involve a fair amount of science, I am acutely aware of the possibility of getting something wrong. Still, some things are just so intrinsically interesting that the effort must be made. I love ...

  • Climate Change: The Future Is Now

    Created: Saturday, 06 March 2010 12:45 Author: G J Lau
    A recent USA Today article by Dan Vergano raised the supposition that climate scientists have misread the recent polls showing that the public is not all that concerned about global warming. Certainly the decline as documented by the polls has been very s...

  • Climate Change: The Latest News

    Created: Thursday, 04 March 2010 11:37 Author: G J Lau
    Every morning I take a quick look at the latest news items relating to climate change and global warming. If I find anything interesting I add it to the LATEST NEWS section. I like stories that add to my understanding of climate change as a scientific puz...

  • How to Deny Climate Change (Or Anything Else) in Two Easy Steps

    Created: Tuesday, 02 March 2010 14:22 Author: G J Lau
    The debate over global warming has taken on an increasingly ideological tone. Global warming is attacked as a just another front in a secret war being waged by leftists, socialists and  one-worlders to gain control over our lives and, of course, raise ta...