from Michigan Pete, comment at Gristmill
on 26-04-08: I think we need to stop worrying
about the polar bears...
A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern
Arctic has revealed that they are thriving, not declining...
In the Davis Strait area, a 140,000-sq kilometre region,
the polar bear population has grown from 850 in the
mid-1980s to 2,100 today. "There aren't just
a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears,"
said Mitch Taylor, a polar bear biologist who has
spent 20 years studying the animals."
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Rebuilding Climate Science -
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Brief Introduction: "I
was a highly committed environmental activist, believing in
Global Warming" - a challenge to widely-held beliefs
about Global Warming and about the supposed "consensus"
of scientists.
First step: Curious
Anomalies about Climate Science is a skeptical climate
science primer that also tells the story of my U-turn from
AGW believer to sceptic. It includes a lot of references,
including refs to other good climate science primers.
Second step: The Climate
Debate gives some of the best websites and "portal"
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deconstruct the AGW "debunks" of climate skeptics'
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this means a little more work than Part One (the primer).
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of skeptics' issues".
We need to
* rebuild the basic understanding of climate science;and
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skeptics"
that one finds at BBC, New Scientist, RealClimate,
Skeptical Scientist, etc.
We hope to build up enough agreed science to
refute every "debunk". Use the Forum
to help with this.
True climate patterns vary quite a lot - beware
"cherry picking" one piece of evidence
out of context.
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