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U.S. Set To Abolish Role Of Climate Envoy
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Date: 30/08/17
CNN
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has outlined plans to eliminate or outsource at least 30 special envoy roles at the US State Department, including the role of US special envoy for climate change. The plans, which will cut around half of the current envoy posts in the Department, were set out in a letter […]
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Most Of The Recent Warming Could Be Natural
Date: 22/08/17
Jennifer Marohasy
The science is far from settled. In reality, some of the data is ‘problematic’, the underlying physical mechanisms are complex and poorly understood, the literature voluminous, and new alternative techniques can give very different answers to those derived from General Circulation Models and remodelled proxy-temperature series. After deconstructing 2,000-year old proxy-temperature series back to their […]
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Trump Administration Just Disbanded Federal Advisory Committee On Climate Change
Date: 20/08/17
The Washington Post
The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning. The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — which includes academics as well as local officials and corporate representatives […]
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What Do We Know About Arctic Sea ice Trends?
Date: 17/08/17
Dr. Ronan Connolly & Dr. Michael Connolly, Climate Etc.
Satellite observations indicate that the average Arctic sea ice extent has generally decreased since the start of the satellite records in October 1978. Is this period long enough to assess whether the current sea level trend is unusual, and to what extent the decline is caused by humans? This change in Arctic climate is often […]
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Al Gore Skewered By BBC Host For Doomsday Climate Change Claims
Date: 12/08/17
Chris Campbell, Daily Express
Al Gore was skewered by a BBC radio host for his doomsday rhetoric on climate change and the state of the planet. Justin Webb put it to the environmentalist and former US vice president that he was “joining the dots” and making claims that were “going further” than scientists would.Mr Gore has hit out at […]
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Lamar Smith Slams NYT ‘False Allegations,’ ‘Fake News’ of ‘Leaked’ Climate Report
Date: 10/08/17
CNS News
“The alarmist climate media is at it again,” U.S. House Science Committee Chair Rep. Lamar Smith declared Tuesday after liberal media pounced on a debunked New York Times report claiming it exclusively obtained a “leaked” report the Trump Administration may be trying to cover up. The supposedly-leaked and suppressed report had, in fact, been publicly available for […]
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CO2 Emissions Data Wrong “Plus Or Minus 100%”
Date: 09/08/17
BBC News
Huge gaps between measurements and values submitted to UN Potent, climate-warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in official inventories, a BBC investigation has found. Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from a location in Italy. However, the Italian submission to the UN records just […]
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NYT Caught Switching Out Documents To Fix Botched Climate Change Article
Date: 08/08/17
Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller
The New York Times has quietly updated its Tuesday front page article on a “sweeping” global warming report some scientists fear “would be suppressed” by the Trump administration. TheNYT reported they had obtained an unreleased draft copy of the National Climate Assessment (NCA), which is set for release in 2018. The paper claimed the NDA draft had […]