Archive for October 24, 2011

Three Libyan Questions

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1 year ago
by Armchair Warlord in

The war in Libya appears to be over. Gaddafi’s régime has been com­pletely destroyed, his army van­quished and his sup­port­ers fled or in hid­ing. The long-​​time despot’s body is cur­rently a mor­bid tourist attrac­tion pend­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into the cir­cum­stances of his death.

Given that, I’d like to make some obser­va­tions and ask some ques­tions of the read­er­ship here. (more…)

The BEST Study Yet

290
1 year ago
by dcpetterson in

The most com­pre­hen­sive exam­i­na­tion of his­tor­i­cal tem­per­a­ture data has con­firmed, unequiv­o­cally, the real­ity of global warming.

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BEST study image

Researchers at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley stud­ied more than a bil­lion tem­per­a­ture records going back to the 1800s, from fif­teen sources and over 39,000 sta­tions around the world. They addressed the major con­cerns and crit­i­cisms from global warm­ing deniers. Their con­clu­sion: it’s real, it’s hap­pen­ing, and it’s accelerating.

Accord­ing to the Berke­ley Earth Sur­face Tem­per­a­ture (BEST) project, the aver­age global tem­per­a­ture has risen by 1 degree Cel­sius (almost 2 degrees Fahren­heit) since the 1950s. This is in close agree­ment with the esti­mate from other major orga­ni­za­tions that main­tain offi­cial records on the world’s cli­mate (includ­ing NASA’s God­dard Insti­tute for Space Stud­ies in New York, the US National Oceanic and Atmos­pheric Admin­is­tra­tion (NOAA), and the Met Office’s Hadley Cen­tre, with the Uni­ver­sity of East Anglia, in the UK), thus fur­nish­ing con­fir­ma­tion and sup­port for those esti­mates and mod­els as well. (more…)

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