Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:11:44 AM
An
Inconvenient Truth exaggerated sea level rise - Al Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary exaggerated
the likely effects of global warming on sea levels, a new study shows. The film, An Inconvenient Truth, suggested
that the sea would rise up to 20ft "in the near future" as the ice in Greenland or Western Antarctica
melts.
Other documentaries have picture Britain deluged with water, showing the House of Commons submerged.
However, while some mainstream predictions project sea levels 2 to 4 meters higher by 2100, a new study published
today in Science concludes that a rise in sea level between 0.8 and 2 meters is much more likely.
While scientists agree that sea levels rose by six inches over the course of the 20th century, estimates of future
rises remain hazy, mostly because there are many uncertainties, from the lack of data on what ice sheets did in the
past to predict how they will react to warming, insufficient long-term satellite data to unpick the effects of
natural climate change from that caused by man and a spottiness in the degree to which places such as Antarctica
have warmed. (Daily Telegraph)
Historical average is 4-8 inches per century and that is what we anticipate for this century, too. All other
claims are based on the absurd output of PlayStation® climatology models, process models of zero known prognostic
ability (and never likely to have either, due to the chaotic nature of the complex, coupled, nonlinear system we
call climate).
Global sea-rise levels by 2100 my be lower than some predict,
says new study - Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of
this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that global sea rise of
much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility. (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Likin' her better by the minute: Palin's
record on wildlife as harsh as Alaska's environment itself - WASHINGTON - At the National Governors Association
conference where she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior
Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.
Months later she sued Kempthorne, arguing that the Bush administration didn't use the best science in concluding
that without further protection, the polar bear faces eventual extinction because of disappearing sea ice as the
result of global warming.
Palin, McCain's vice presidential running mate, has had frequent run-ins with environmentalists.
In her 20 months as governor, Palin has questioned the conclusions of federal marine scientists who say the Cook
Inlet beluga whale needs protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
She has defended Alaska's right to shoot down wolves from the air to boost caribou and moose herds for hunters, and
— contrary to a view held by McCain — is not convinced that global warming is the result of human activity.
Environmentalists have nicknamed Palin the "killa from Wasilla," a reference to the small town where she
formerly was mayor. (Associated Press)
Palin
says U.S. oil imports pose security risk - ST. PAUL - U.S. reliance on imported oil poses a national security
risk, and energy policy should include everything from expanding domestic drilling to finding alternative fuels,
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on Wednesday.
In her speech accepting the vice presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, Palin said a natural
gas pipeline under construction in Alaska would one day "lead America one step farther away from dependence on
dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart."
She said the United States should not be so reliant on imported oil that it has to tap its Strategic Petroleum
Reserve when a hurricane strikes oil production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.
"With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European
allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers," she said.
(Reuters)
As Energy Mom,
Palin’s influence could be good news for Canada - Sarah Palin, a climate skeptic and energy booster, knows
more about Canada-U.S. issues than Joe Biden (Terence Corcoran, Financial Post)
Picking
through the Pickens Plan - In a recently posted Youtube video, energy analyst Donn Dears identifies what appears
to be a major flaw in the Pickens Plan.