The Cloth of Science: an Interview with Roger Pielke, Jr.
"Instead of battles over morals or politics, we battle over science"
http://www.thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/03/the_cloth_of_science_an_interv.shtml
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... 4 videos from KUSI on youtube. The founder of The Weather Channel speaks out against global warming Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.
http://www.icecap.us/
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http://meteo.lcd.lu/globalwarming/
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http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com/
Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say
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The 'non-skeptic heretic club' says it would be easier and cheaper to adapt than fight climate change. Critics say the flaw in the theory is that the effects will be unpredictable.
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 26, 2008
The disastrous hurricanes of recent years have become the poster children of global warming.
But Roger A. Pielke Jr., an environmental policy expert at the University of Colorado at Boulder, wondered whether the billions of dollars of damage was caused by more intense storms or more coastal development.
After analyzing decades of hurricane data, Pielke concluded that rising levels of carbon dioxide had little to do with hurricane damage. Rather, it boiled down to a simple equation: Build more, lose more.
"Everything has been put on the back of carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide cannot carry that weight," he said.
Pielke's analysis, published last month in the journal Natural Hazards Review, is part of a controversial movement that argues global warming over the rest of this century will play a much smaller role in unleashing planetary havoc than most scientists think.
His research has led him to believe that it is cheaper and more effective to adapt to global warming than to fight it.
Instead of spending trillions of dollars to stabilize carbon dioxide levels across the planet -- an enormously complex and expensive proposition -- the world could work on reducing hunger, storm damage and disease now, thereby neutralizing some of the most feared future problems of global warming.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-adapt26mar26,0,4227673.story
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Written by Robert Ferguson
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/south_carolina_negligible_climate_effect.html
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