New Study disproves Sun link to Climate Change

The BBC reports on a study to be published in the Proceedings A at the Royal Society. It shows that for the last 20 years, the Sun’s output has declined, yet temperatures on Earth have risen. “All the graphs [sun-link proponents] showed stopped in about 1980, and I knew why, because things diverged after that,” …

New “objectors” against IPCC report conclusions

Some very interesting points in this CBC article about the new IPCC report on climate change this morning. I’m hoping to get a chance to go through the whole thing this weekend, though I’m not totally clear on if it is actually released or not. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/04/06/climate-un.html An incredible amount of hard data was used for …

Scientific Consensus – is a darn strong theory

Today on the Scientific American blog there is a great article from the Editor talking about the different meanings of the term “Scientific Consensus.” I highly recommend reading this article. It explains very well why precisely why the “debate” about human caused climate change is “over”. But in brief, it’s not because every scientist in …