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This is the third time in as many days that the Climate Seminar in Ny Alesund, Norway has made the headlines; and I still don’t see the sponsor named in any of the articles; but I think I have cracked this mystery. I just discovered that the Ny Alesund Seminars are frequent occurrences and appear to be referred to […]

Dr. Christopher Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, told a seminar being held in Ny Alesund, Norway on August 20 that the IPCC was “restrained to the point of being seriously misleading” with regard to the risk posed by a melting Antarctica.
Dr. Rapley has repeatedly warned that the IPCC has seriously underestimated the impact that […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time to focus on another of my horsemen, Heat, which is causing havoc in the U.S. and Japan with record breaking temperatures.
First, the US: 37 Die In South, Midwest Heat Wave.
Unrelenting heat that has baked the Midwest and South for the past […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - The Small Island Nations of the Pacific are at extreme risk due to sea level rise. Most of the time I concentrate on the most dramatic effects of sea level rise - the more powerful storms and storm surges - so it is […]

Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time recently blasted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the problems in preparing New Orleans for Katrina and the repair effort afterwards, and now the Corps is firing back: Response to Aug. 13 Time Cover Story: “The Threatening Storm”.
TIME magazine’s […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - You know I believe that Sea Level Rise is going be faster and higher than predicted by the IPCC, and this next article provides more proof, with a great moral tale - the sea doesn’t care how much money you make, it […]

Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Now that the flood waters are starting to recede from India and Bangladesh, the world can more clearly assess their impact and the news is very bad. These two articles clearly illustrate the challenges that lie ahead of us: first in dealing […]

 Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming 
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Stories - Today was a huge news day and it was tough picking a top story, so please excuse the skimpy commentary in this section. These two climate change related articles were chosen because they discuss two areas that concern me the most - […]

Top Story- There are two entries today, both about Global Warming. The Global Warming debate is settled for most of the world, but it still lingers on in the U.S and the first article provides some valuable insight into why that is occurring: Gore: Polluters Manipulate Climate Info. The second article provides shocking new information on the consequences […]

Top Story - At the recent UN Special Session experts indicated that the cost of combating global warming would be approximately 1% of the world GDP (4 times that if we delayed), now we have independent corroboration of that figure by our EIA; but their figure is actually slightly lower: Climate bill shaves $533 bln off economy.
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