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5 Antarctic facts for climate change sceptics
2014-01-04 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: To most people the prolonged stranding of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy in thick pack ice off the coast of Antarctica is an unfortunate incident that provided passengers with rather static scenery for their Christmas and New Year celebrations. But to some climate change contrarians, repeated attempts to free the vessel from the ice are proof that the theory of climate change is flawed or, at best, exaggerated. After all, a warming planet has no ice at all, right? In Sydney's Daily Telegraph, Roger...
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Manmade global warming: stormy meeting between sceptics and believers
2013-12-13 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It was a summit of sorts, but certainly not a meeting of minds: at 10am on 19 November, six of Britain's most eminent climate change scientists entered a wood-panelled committee room in the House of Lords to face the country's most prominent climate change sceptic, Lord Lawson. The scientists had originally understood the meeting to be a private briefing for the former chancellor, following a spat between the peer and Professor Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel prize-winning biologist and president of...
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Memo to sceptics of a low-carbon world 'It's happening'
2013-10-10 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This year, the US is on track to install one solar energy system every four minutes. Not bad you might think, especially in a country where powerful oil and gas interests are keen to block progress on clean energy. But there is a country that knocks the baseballing nation for a cricketing six Bangladesh. Late last year, the award-winning renewable energy scheme Grameen Shakti celebrated the installation of its 1 millionth home solar energy system and that in one of the world's poorest counties....
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Climate change sceptics aren't all alike, so don't tar them with the same brush
2013-10-09 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The geneticist Steve Jones also weighed in, reminding the corporation not to fall into the trap of "false balance" by treating the views of sceptics equally alongside mainstream climate researchers. The nub of their argument is that...
Climate change: sceptics, deniers and believers
2013-10-04 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Speaking at a conference run by the European Space Agency in Edinburgh last month, David Willetts, the UK science minister, recounted how he had recently sat next to a climate sceptic, or you could say, denier, at a dinner. He had been able to rebut this persons scepticism about the earths shrinking polar ice caps by using data from the ESAs Cryosat satellite mission, which measures the extent and thickness of polar ice from space. It was a heartening moment for those of us who have noticed...
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