Chuck Spinney: Climate Warming Bottom Line + Global Warming @ PBI

The central fact is that there exists great uncertainty about the long-term dynamics of the global climate system.  This fact, however, is not reflected in the partisan positions of either side in the highly-charged political debate over climate change. The recently published IPCC report (AR5) raised a host of questions relating to how AR5 dealt …

SchwartzReport: Global Warming = More Volcanic Activity

Link Found Between Global Warming and Increased Volcanic Activity DARREN QUICK – GizMag Another piece of the climate change trend falls into place. SOURCE: Steffen Kutterolf, Marion Jegen, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Tom Kwasnitschka, Armin Freundt and Peter J. Huybers. A detection of Milankovitch frequencies in global volcanic activity. Geology. November 30, 2012, doi: 10.1130/G33419.1 It’s …

Chuck Spinney: Is Global Warming Religion or Science?

From a perspective of elementary epistemology, the difference between practice of religion and practice of science is really quite simple:  in  religion, one changes one’s observations about reality to fit one’s conception or model of reality ; in science, one changes one’s model of reality to fit one’s observations about reality.  At the heart of …