The Obama administration unveiled the most authoritative report to date on the effects of global warming in America today in an effort to persuade the public of the need to act now to prevent the sweeping and life-altering consequences of global warming. Read more here.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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PeterB says
June 17, 2009 at 8:31 pmI see the Grudniod is living up to its reputation for typos – it converts an increase of 1.5 deg F to -17 deg C.
I heard this on the ABC 7.00 news tonight. The reporter said according to the report there could be an 11 degree rise – didn’t specify Fahrenheit or Centigrade. An Aus viewer would assume this would be deg C. As 11F is roughly 6C, the top rise suggested by the IPCC, nothing much has changed really.
spangled drongo says
June 17, 2009 at 9:55 pm196 pages of alarmist projection and mainly a rehash of an older CCSP report which contradicted itself on hurricanes.
RPjr is not impressed.
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/06/obamas-phil-cooney-and-new-ccsp-report.html
SJT says
June 18, 2009 at 1:05 pmAl Gore is fat. Schoolyard stuff.
spangled drongo says
June 18, 2009 at 7:34 pm“Al Gore is fat.”
That’s the boring truth.
This report is alarmist, end is nigh, Malthusian tripe.
spangled drongo says
June 20, 2009 at 4:08 pmObama’s summary has come in for a fair bit of criticism. Somewhere between unscientific and downright embarrassing.
http://climatedepot.com/a/1461/Atmospheric-Scientist-Obamas-climate-report-would-make-Pravda-editors-blush-with-envy-on-how-they-can-misconstrue-and-misreport-truths-for-a-propaganda-angle