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Global Warming Interview with John Daly 1.Once and for all is global warming fact or fiction. Please explain reasons. We must discriminate here between natural warming which may occur through natural variability, and warming which has been (or may become in the future) generated by human activity. Most of the warming in the 20th century occurred before 1940, a large number of scientific papers attributing that warming to the sun. The sun is now hotter and more active than at any time in the last... more

More evidence linking acid air pollution and the death of forest trees in the Northeast has surfaced from Cornell University and the Ithaca-based Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Two scientists have completed a study showing how acidic clouds contribute to the killing of red spruce trees, one of the Northeast’s dominant forest species, according to the Institute. While previous research pointed to the relationship between acid rain, acidic clouds and damage to the trees, the... more

Global Change Research Program, under which a number of federal agencies cooperate on a major study of the Earth’s climate and global warming. “Evidence is increasing on the scientific table that change is occurring,” said Robert Corell, Assistant Director of Geological Science at the National Science Foundation (NSF), one of the agencies which participates in the program. Other agencies besides NSF which will be working on the program include the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),... more

Global Warming Rising Sea The real danger of global warming is not that there will be atypical freezes during some years. It’s that the polar and arctic areas are getting warming, which released more water, which affects global sea levels, which affects the amound of land which can sequester CO2 to ameliorate global warming. Once the cycle starts, the solution will be much more difficult. The majority of the 1-2mm/year increase in sea level is attributable to thermal expansion, rather than... more

Global Warming It’s been something of a talking point in recent years amongst the polluters’ cartel spruikers that this was some sinister plot by proponents of the AGW-hypothesis to cover up flaws in the model. This was and is nonsense of course, because describing what is happeneing to the world’s climate as “climate change” is a good deal more accurate. Nobody has suggested that AGW means everywhere will warm at the same rate or even all warm at the same time. It is... more