Fallible Forecasts

February 26, 2010

In 2007, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change surprised scientists when it declared in its seminal report on global warming that certain huge Himalayan glaciers might melt away completely by 2035. “It’s physically impossible to kill the ice that fast,” Jeffrey Kargel, a professor at the University of Arizona who studies glaciers, told The Washington Post. A recent letter to the editor in the journal Science noted that the …

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No Pontoons For Santa Claus

December 24, 2009

The ice is nice and thick at the North Pole this Christmas Eve. Santa and his team will be able to use the sled without adding pontoons. Neither global warming nor El Ni√±o will stop The Jolly One from making his appointed rounds. Al Gore startled many observers at the recent United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen when he claimed there is a 75 percent chance that the Arctic sea …

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Nevada’s Nuclear Poker

November 24, 2009

Nevada, home of hundreds of casinos, is pretty good at playing its cards. The game is nuclear poker. Fighting global warming is a top priority for the environmental movement. Next month, leaders from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to discuss new targets on carbon emissions. Cutting emissions will require turning more to sources of energy other than fossil fuels. That will mean more reliance on clean, renewable energy sources …

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More Ice In The Arctic

September 15, 2009

As the long summer’s day turns to night across the high Arctic, the diminished polar ice cap is beginning to re-freeze. It has a head start this year, because ice now covers more of the Arctic Ocean than last year at this time. There was more ice last year than the year before, too. This will be the first time since 1990-1992 that Arctic sea ice coverage, at its minimum …

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