August 25, 2013
"Doctors" Behind Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims are Aiding Terrorists
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Tweet Eli has been amongst those concerned with links between Arctic heating, jet stream perturbations and weird weather. Eli, of course, is neither a meteorologist nor a climate scientist, he is but a bunny, but a literate one (unusual, we know) and has been following work in this area, led by Jennifer Francis at Rutgers . Just yesterday the Rabett ran into three things that tied all this together. First Paul Douglas shows Eli a weather forecast map from NOAA, where nature has turned it up to bake in the north central US. Unusual for this time of year, but especially so because it was freezing cold for the summer just weeks ago  Next a map of the jet stream from Intellicast And finally an editorial in Nature Climate Change which ties the package together The day-to-day weather and longer-term climate are different phenomena, although there are strong links between them.
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The AGU has issued its revised statement on climate change , approved by the fifteen member committee chaired by Gerald North with one (predictable) dissent. Human induced climate change requires urgent action. Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years.
Merchant of doubt?"We just have no idea what the forcing really is.""Maybe it’s one degree. Maybe it’s two degrees.
Time reports Robots to Revolutionize Farming and Ease Labor Woes . On a windy morning in California’s Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants
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Tweet Ray Pierrehumbert writes about President Obama’s speech in Slate One should be grateful for a president who is willing to stand up and declare—as President Obama did in his speech Tuesday announcing his long-awaited climate action plan —that global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions is a serious problem requiring serious measures, and that “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.†After all, as presidents go, we could have done much worse . President Obama is working under serious constraints in the form of a completely uncooperative Congress, and insofar as there is no real substitute for congressional action , there are limits to what he can be expected to do