Day: October 19, 2009

John Stossel: The Global Warming Church vs. SuperFreakonomics

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Court Finds Hurricane Katrina Victims Have Standing To Sue Over Global Warming

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WashPost buries DC’s coldest day in 138 years

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CNBC, Reuters fall for climate hoax about Chamber of Commerce

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Study finds West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought

[New Study Press Release published below. Plus brush up on Antarctica reading here: 1) New study: Antarctic ice shelves showing no sign of global warming – June 2009

2) Antarctic Summer Ice Melt at ‘lowest ever recorded in the satellite history’ – October 2009

3) Antarctic Tipping Point? ‘If we don’t act soon, the planet will become a barren ball of ice and snow’

4) Media Hype on ‘Melting’ Antarctic Ignores Record Ice Growth – March 27, 2008

5) Scientists, Data Challenge New Antarctic ‘Warming’ Study – January 21, 2009

6) Flashback 2008: Why isn’t the cooling Antarctic considered ‘an indicator of what might happen to the rest of the world?’

7) ‘Gain in Antarctica sea ice extent two times that of the gain in the Arctic at 500,000 square kilometers…well above average’

8)‘September has been colder than average’ in Antarctica

9) Scientists: ‘Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing’

10) Shock: Real Climate touted Steig et al ‘Antarctica is warming’ study ‘falsified’ — ‘the paper’s premise has been falsified’ ]

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Study finds: West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought – October 19, 2009 – University of Texas at Austin Press Release

West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought

October 19, 2009

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AUSTIN, Texas — New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest the rate of ice loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet has been slightly overestimated.

“Our work suggests that while West Antarctica is still losing significant amounts of ice, the loss appears to be slightly slower than some recent estimates,” said Ian Dalziel, lead principal investigator for WAGN. “So the take home message is that Antarctica is contributing to rising sea levels. It is the rate that is unclear.”

In 2006, another team of researchers used data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites to infer a significant loss of ice mass over West Antarctica from 2002 to 2005. The GRACE satellites do not measure changes in ice loss directly but measure changes in gravity, which can be caused both by ice loss …

‘Distorting the global warming debate: How low can Joe Romm go?’

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Update: Romm responds to accusations

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Cartoon: Prying Big Screens From Our Cold, Dead Hands

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NYT’s Paul Krugman censors comments on his global warming post: ‘Because I know it will be overwhelmed’

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UK’s Gordon Brown warns of global warming ‘catastrophe’; Only ’50 days to save world’

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