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See and this is where the skeptical side falls apart. The junkers can show all kinds of proxy reconstructions with wonky filters and nearly correct methodology. When you show them how the reconstructions are wrong, they fall back on comparing apples to oranges, which is much the same faulty...

Extra, go find a reputable article where any scientist says we're past any tipping point. I would love to read that methodology.... As to the Millenium scale reconstruction, I'll explain the problems. Radionuclides are indeed the most reliable proxy records for reconstructing past solar...

The big news coming out of the APEC summit is not the George Bush mistakes at the podium, it is the non-binding agreement which Canada helped broker in. The nations attending agreed to non-binding targets to reduce energy intensity by 25% by 2030. Canada is being attributed with the leadership...

Just like with Intelligent design, this issue repeatedly comes up., ie. Scientists all thought the earth was in an ice age during the 70's. This is patently false and has been shown so many, many times. If you want to get your info from bloggers, that's fine. The real problem stems from...

A New Push to Regulate Power Costs By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON Published: September 4, 2007 More than a decade after the drive began to convert electricity from a regulated industry into a competitive one, many states...

This week in response to pressure from groups such as Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Awareness, food giant ConAgra announced it will pull the chemical diacetyl from it's products. It has been used by many other companies as well as an artificial butter flavour for use in microwave...

Brits approve human-animal embryo research Cloning technique banned in Canada Last Updated: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 | 1:44 PM ET CBC News After months of consultation, British regulators have agreed in principle to allow human-animal embryos to be...

It's official now. After weeks of speculation, Harper has prorogued Parliament. With this announcement, renewed speculation of non-confidence votes and an ensuing fall election. After all the posturing in Ottawa, it seems it was all for not. Some legislation which will be dropped: C-30 Clean...

No, real science has strong conclusions because it must be repeatable, but only if the foundation and assumptions are solid, which in this case they aren't. As the article suggested, the activity correlates with minimum periods which happen every 11 years or so, which given the steady rise in...

Happy to help m'lady.

Karrie, Not one that hasn't been debunked. Earth is for all intents and purposes a closed system. If I grow some salmon in a closed system, and begin to increase pollutants, the system will crash. You start with an equilibrium and further pressure stresses the entire living system. We're...

Yes Extra, the article says if the increase during the minimums were to persist for decades, there then would be a trend worth following. But that isn't happening and as far as I know, there has never been an extended minimum with exception to the Maunder minimum, which is irrelevant to the...

Records of troubled B.C. students can be shared: privacy commissioner Last Updated: Monday, September 3, 2007 | 12:20 PM PT CBC News Universities in British Columbia can share confidential medical records about troubled students if there's a perceived a...

Which phenomena is it? Increased solar activity, does that mean it is irradiance, or is it sun spots?

Nonsense indeed. What scientific principle did you take that from EF? Perhaps you know better than the climate scientists working on this, they'd love it if you could show them their mistakes, in fact I'd kinda like to see that myself. The globe is warming, ie. more heat being trapped, where do...

Just to add to Zzarchov's post, it is not the near surface absorption which is important, it is the upper atmosphere where the heat does escape that is the real problem. Less heat is radiating back into space now because of the greenhouse gases up there.

For the very last time, a pollutant is anything we release which has a deleterious effect, regardless of what compound it is. Regardless of whether or not it is a naturally found compound. To illustrate your absurd point, a hypothetical ecosystem can sustain a certain threshold of toatal...

Remember that big spider in Lord of The Rings? It may live in Texas... It's not the web of one spider, but the webs of many communal spiders, explained here.

If there is deleterious effects, it is pollution, it really is that simple, by definition. An atmospheric pollutant has more cause and effect relationships than the atmospheric reactions. Soil and water? Many nitrogen products are found naturally and are even beneficial, but when release of...

Being a constituent of air does not mean it isn't a pollutant. If there is a deleterious effect by releasing a substance, it is pollution, whether or not it is found naturally. It is not acknowledged by all sides that meeting any reduction, Kyoto or otherwise, will not have an effect on rising...