http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:41:18 -0700 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:55:26 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d29-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-5-Whos-making-the-case?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner This is part five of a series of email exchanges between Bart Verheggen and myself, which I am trying to separate into manageable chunks. The debate started on December 22 in this space, and you can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here and P... Liberal Skeptic Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:55:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d29-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-5-Whos-making-the-case?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Global-warming-debate-Part-4-A-climate-scientist-responds-to-tipping-points?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner This is part four of a series of email exchanges between Bart Verheggen and myself, which I am trying to separate into manageable chunks. The debate started on December 22 in this space, and you can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. I... Liberal Skeptic Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:39:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Global-warming-debate-Part-4-A-climate-scientist-responds-to-tipping-points?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-3-Everybody-wants-to-live-together?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner This is part three of a series of email exchanges between Bart Verheggen and myself, which I am trying to separate into manageable chunks. The debate started on December 22 in this space, and you can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. I'm split... Liberal Skeptic Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:37:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-3-Everybody-wants-to-live-together?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d27-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-2?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner This is part two of a series of email exchanges between Bart Verheggen and myself, which I am trying to separate into manageable chunks. The debate started on December 22 in this space, and you can read Part 1 here. I'm splitting the... Liberal Skeptic Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:12:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d27-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-2?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d27-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-1-Skeptics-should-play-a-part?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner It's not even New Year's yet and I'm doing another series of articles... this series breaking up an email debate between Bart Verheggen and myself into manageable chunks. The debate started on December 22 in this space, and you can rea... Liberal Skeptic Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:52:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d27-Global-warming-debate-A-climate-scientist-responds-Part-1-Skeptics-should-play-a-part?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d26-Global-warming-conspiracy-theories?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner There are some activists who think that Republicans, bloggers and energy companies have been conspiring to defeat the environmental agenda, and some hold that this conspiracy has been going on for a long time. They point to contributions to conser... Liberal Skeptic Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:33:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d26-Global-warming-conspiracy-theories?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d24-Climate-wars?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner We've recently seen the concluding salvos in vicious battles of several wars being conducted in and around the area of global warming. (But to differentiate, these are 'wars' that we can watch and participate in without loss of life, a... Liberal Skeptic Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:43:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d24-Climate-wars?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d23-Global-warming-wishlist-for-2010?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner Okay, I'm a little early, but here's what I'd like to see happen regarding global warming in 2010. Obviously, like all sane humans on the planet, it would be absolutely wonderful to find out the skeptics were absolutely correct and... Liberal Skeptic Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:11:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d23-Global-warming-wishlist-for-2010?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d22-Global-warminga-climate-scientist-responds-to-how-warmists-should-speak-to-skeptics?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner Bart Verheggen is a Dutch climate scientist who specializes in aerosols--something I think will be very valuable in mitigation efforts going forward. He disagrees with me about many aspects of climate change, but he has been extremely cordial in d... Liberal Skeptic Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:13:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d22-Global-warminga-climate-scientist-responds-to-how-warmists-should-speak-to-skeptics?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d22-Prescription-for-fight-against-global-warming?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner If you were to poll everyone with an interest in climate change and ask them what course they thought temperatures would take over this century, I'm fairly confident that a majority would pick some level of raised temperatures. I think if you ... Liberal Skeptic Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:41:22 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d22-Prescription-for-fight-against-global-warming?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d21-The-choices-global-warming-forces-upon-us?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner I believe our greatest duty is to the poor. Of course, I'm a liberal Democrat, so that should be no surprise. Indeed, one of the reasons I put up with so many of my, umm, 'comrades,' no--'fellow travellers'--er, worse--other li... Liberal Skeptic Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:59:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d21-The-choices-global-warming-forces-upon-us?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d20-You-could-paint-an-unpretty-picture-of-global-warming-advocates?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner And I'm sure you could paint an unflattering picture of either side, given time enough and energy. But it seems substantially easier to do with those who came before the public eye as advocates for radical change to deal with global warming, b... Liberal Skeptic Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:19:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d20-You-could-paint-an-unpretty-picture-of-global-warming-advocates?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d19-The-dog-that-didnt-bark-on-global-warming?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner I've written almost 300 articles here at Examiner.com, most of them on global warming. As I have been very critical of the 'consensus holders' who predict climate catastrophe (which I consider absurdist fantasy), I am accustomed to rec... Liberal Skeptic Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:48:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d19-The-dog-that-didnt-bark-on-global-warming?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d19-Global-warming-will-benefit-from-moving-out-of-the-spotlight-for-a-while?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner With the conclusion of COP15 in Copenhagen and investigations in process on Climategate, global warming and climate change will move off the front burner in U.S. domestic and international politics for a while. This is without a doubt the best thi... Liberal Skeptic Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:34:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d19-Global-warming-will-benefit-from-moving-out-of-the-spotlight-for-a-while?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d19-Satellite-data-means-we-still-need-to-worry-about-global-warming?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner Buried in all the hullabaloo about Copenhagen and Climategate, the most important recent news about climate change was released by NASA on December 15. I mentioned it when it came out, but I think we're going to be talking about this long afte... Liberal Skeptic Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:55:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d19-Satellite-data-means-we-still-need-to-worry-about-global-warming?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d18-The-Climategate-code?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner In addition to the more than 1,000 emails and assorted documents that were leaked to the public a month ago, there were several files containing software code, seemingly source code for the calculations the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia use... Liberal Skeptic Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:04:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d18-The-Climategate-code?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d17-A-global-warming-deal-in-Copenhagenone-more-such-victory-and-we-are-undone?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner Generous cash from the U.S. and concessions on verification by China may lead to the announcement of some sort of agreement at COP15 in Copenhagen. The King of Epirus, Pyrrhus, describes the effects in the headline above. The details of a pote... Liberal Skeptic Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:07:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d17-A-global-warming-deal-in-Copenhagenone-more-such-victory-and-we-are-undone?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d17-Global-warming-How-warmists-should-deal-with-skeptics?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner Most of my writing about global warming is more sympathetic to the skeptics' cause, even if my beliefs about global warming are quite different to theirs. This is aggravated by the tone and attitude of the 'warmists' I come across, eit... Liberal Skeptic Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:33:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d17-Global-warming-How-warmists-should-deal-with-skeptics?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d17-How-Climategate-is-affecting-my-futurea-somewhat-commercial-announcement?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner Well, in the face of mass protests, the weather has capitulated and global warming has ceased:     Climategate has been in the news frequently, and in my articles almost continuously. In order to abate this obsessive / compul... Liberal Skeptic Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:58:06 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d17-How-Climategate-is-affecting-my-futurea-somewhat-commercial-announcement?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d16-The-Russians-say-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-there?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner A Russian think tank today reported that the climate research team at the center of the scandal involving suppression of data and contrary opinions may have picked weather stations in Russia that showed warming, while excluding more stations that ... Liberal Skeptic Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:34:51 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d16-The-Russians-say-that-global-warming-isnt-happening-there?cid=exrss-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner