Tag Archives: climate change

Lineage-Enders

Posted on April 21, 2015 by kirkmike157

Teddy Wayne recently wrote a piece for the Sunday New York Times called “The Childless Life” (the digital version is titled “No Kids for Me, Thanks”) which at face value was a discussion of the individual choice to go vocally, self-righteously extinct. In … Continue reading →

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Re: Will a return of rising temperatures validate the climate models?

Posted on December 17, 2014 by kirkmike157

Instability is the first thing that one will notice if presented with climate data, on almost any scale. That is why the flat-line in global surface air temperature that began in 1998 is so unexpected. The debate over climate change … Continue reading →

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Why Obama Should Not be King

Posted on August 14, 2014 by kirkmike157

Shortly before his policies in the Middle East imploded on themselves, dragging Obama into his latest, twitchy, defensive, mouse-in-a-corner foreign policy debacle, he was trying to focus our attention on climate policy. In keeping with his other recent regal edicts, … Continue reading →

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Winter of our Disrespect

Posted on February 14, 2014 by caydunbar

On a cold February morning recently I checked the Great Lakes Environmental Research site and found that only one of the Great Lakes had any waves on it. Superior, Erie, Huron, and Ontario were frozen solid. A small peanut of Lake Michigan … Continue reading →

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