Research supporting what a number of scientists have suspected for some time — that changes in the northern polar ice are having dramatic effects on the course of the jet stream.
Posted inFeature Article, Religion & Morality
‘Green Muslims,’ Eco-Islam and Evolving Climate Change Consciousness
The Iranian-born intellectual Seyyed Hossein Nasr, whose seminal writings helped build the foundation for contemporary thinking about Islam and the environment, was once a lonely voice preaching the virtues of conservation to all who cared to listen. “I often spoke about it on television and radio,” he recalls, “but it was a very unpopular subject. […]
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The Global Warming Culture Wars
Politics and ideology stoke passions in climate debate.
Posted inPolicy & Politics
A Climate ‘Skeptic’ Objects to Ideology, Politics as Motives
A scientist/professor’s assertion that politics, rather than science, motivates most skeptics leads to an e-mail exchange … and then to the seemingly inevitable ad hominem criticism. What appeared to get the goat of the U.K.-based* retired-banker-turned-climate-“skeptic” is the American scientist’s statement that most of those people dismissing climate change do so “for ideological or political […]
Posted inClimate Science, Policy & Politics
‘Republican Meteorologist’s’ Climate Blog ‘Goes Viral’
Numerous sites repost a blog from a Minnesota meteorologist who acknowledges that his acceptance of evidence on climate science and humans’ role in warming may put him at odds with many in his field … and in his political party. The term “going viral” means different things in different quarters, and a message that “goes […]
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TV Meteorologist Bob Ryan Blogs on Climate Science Workshop
TV meteorologists from Chesapeake Bay water shed states spend a full day on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for in-depth briefing on climate science.
Posted inPolicy & Politics
Republican in Mission, But No Longer in Name
The 17-year old Republicans for Environmental Protection drops ‘Republican’ from its name in effort to advance its message that ‘conservation is conservative.’ What’s in a name?
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Some Climate Scientists Make Overtures to Their Critics
Can climate ‘skeptics’ be won over with face-to-face engagement?
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The United Church of Christ and Climate Change
The head of the Massachusetts conference of the United Church of Christ, the Rev. Jim Antal, says he was not undone for having spent three days in jail last August. He and a number of like-minded others were arrested for refusing to leave Lafayette Park in Washington D.C., across from the White House, where they […]
Posted inFeature Article, Health, Policy & Politics
Picking Fight with CO2 Bully: OR … Near-term effort for short-term gains
Tackling black carbon (soot) and other short-term pollutants buys valuable time for tackling CO2. But in long term, CO2 emissions reductions are seen as remaining critical.
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Doomsday Genre Is Thriving in Cinema and on Cable TV
In 2004, civilization came to an icy end in The Day After Tomorrow. The big-budget disaster flick (it cost $125 million to make) was directed by a Hollywood director who had a string of blockbuster hits. It featured several well-known actors and introduced the scary concept of abrupt climate change to large, captive audiences. The […]
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Broadcast Meteorologists Meetings on Climate Science
Chesapeake Bay watershed area and Minnesota weathercasters scheduled for separate full-day workshop briefings on climate science. Broadcast meteorologists from Chesapeake Bay area watershed states and from Minnesota will be meeting for two full-day climate science workshops over the next two and one-half months in two separate programs.