Not one of them seems to realise that the only thing that has ever stopped the UK (and other nations around the North Atlantic) from having the same winters as Moscow (at a similar latitude) is the twin effects of the oceanic Gulf Stream (North Atlantic Conveyor) and the atmospheric Jet Stream over Europe
climate change
Quickhit: Last decade set to be warmest on record
I guess though that to the Glenn Becks and Sarah Palins of the world if it’s not happening right in front of them in the USA then it isn’t really happening. The rest of the world not only doesn’t matter it doesn’t even really exist.
Femmostroppo Reader (Scitech Edition) – December 7, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/7nnVQ2fROOg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1 “As you’ll see, very few commentators who jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon even before reading… Read More ›
Denialism and climate change
Having only so many endlessly whirling arguments to devote my time to, I haven’t written hardly anything on the issues of climate change and the vagaries of the denialists here in yonks. I’m not going to write anything in particular… Read More ›
350
I missed this last week, but Bernice explains why this number ought to be burnt into our brains.
Pity the poor Federal Opposition
The bizarre fixation on the tax hike for ready-to-drink alcholic mixed drinks shows that they haven’t really got a lot to effectively gripe about with the first Rudd Budget, have they? How many of the small number of politics wonks… Read More ›
Wet summer
How odd it is for me to write those words after the last few dry years. The word(s) of the last weeks has been “La Niña”, the sister phenomenon to the prolonged El Nino event that has brought us severe… Read More ›
Go go Gillard
As every media outlet cannot tire of telling us, today is the first day in Australia’s history when we will have a female (acting) Prime Minister, and as they are equally quick to reassure us, it’s only going to be… Read More ›
Australia has broken ranks with the US
…even if it’s only regarding the Kyoto Protocol rather than Iraq. Subeditors predictably give us: Aust leaves US in the cold at climate talks I’m astonished that our Prime Bootlicker has allowed our representatives to stop fawning over Karl Rove’s… Read More ›
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