Sorry deniers and delayers, part one


	Sorry deniers and delayers, part one

Socratoad

6-25-2008 7:00 AM

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This report is really an "I told you so" from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center and Tom Karl in Read the full article

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<A target="new" href="http://feeds.grist.org/~r/grist/gristmill/~3/319216735/1622">Sorry deniers and delayers, part one</A>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/399177/sorry-deniers-and-delayers-part-one?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><P>The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (a.k.a. the Bush Administration) has issued a must-read report, <A href="http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap3-3/final-report/default.htm">Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate</A>.  It wouldn't be must-read or even big news if it weren't for the fact that</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/399177/sorry-deniers-and-delayers-part-one?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Many environmentalists stopped talking about the extreme weather/global warming link a decade ago.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/399177/sorry-deniers-and-delayers-part-one?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The deniers, the delayers, and of course the <A href="http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/001462what_the_ccsp_extrem.html">Roger Pielkes</A> of the world have pushed back against any claims that climate change is driving the extreme weather we see today. (as Chico Marx (<A href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004020.html">dressed as Groucho</A>) said "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?")</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/399177/sorry-deniers-and-delayers-part-one?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The media has been brow-beaten by the deniers into downplaying the connection.  The journalist Ross Gelbspan has a long discussion of this in his great 2004 book, Boiling Point -- I will blog on this later.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/399177/sorry-deniers-and-delayers-part-one?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The Midwest is experiencing the second "500-year flood" in 13 years. (Don't worry, big media, it's all just a big coincidence like the deniers keep saying.)</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4B8926BD-BFB0-4F6C-A209-CF1942DB4E5F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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