Meanwhile, a Canadian environmental scientist says that university research should be added to the list of human activities that contribute to global warming. Professor Hervé Philippe from the University of Montreal has discovered that his own research produces 44 tons of carbon dioxide a year. The average American citizen produces 20 tons of CO2 per year.

According to his calculations, Phillippe says his computers produce 19 tons of CO2 a year, the air-conditioning in his lab produces 10 tons of CO2 per year and transportation to and from his many environmental meetings produce another 15 tons of carbon dioxide every year.

Phillippe was shocked at his findings, saying, “I did my PhD in the hope of advancing our knowledge of biodiversity, but I never thought that the research itself could have a negative impact on biodiversity.”

Perhaps Professor Phillippe would share with us how CO2 has a demonstrated negative impact on biodiversity? No computer models allowed, let’s have some facts, not assumptions.

The story, as you may have guessed, is that at one bird species has advanced its egg laying and hatching time along with the advance of the emergence of the caterpillars they feed upon.

The Register story concentrates on the headline (they are an IT rumor site, with a bent toward beer, double entendre and interesting science), the BBC story refers to previous work studying some birds that are losing sync with their food. This is the first I’ve seen where birds and food are shifting in sync.

Perhaps they’ll shift back over the next decade.

Oh, he was bragging.

Great description of bandwagons!

Also, whenever a temp is relatively high, the local forecast bit says “close to record high temp today!!!” when the temp is low, or even a record, nothing is generally said on the local forecast. Lame.

REPLY: Most of the text came from TVspy’s newsletter, where they have no modesty. But a couple of edits I just did should help.

REPLY: I didn’t see it that way, but rather as one more indication of an organization that used to be dedicated to truth in science and meteorology, has now lost it’s way and become just like many other TV news organizations – a ratings hound. I knew what the Weather Channel was like at it’s inception when John Coleman and Joe D’Aleo worked there. I would have been proud to work there then. Not today.

With TWC being so influential in many households, we deserve to see the ugly warts too. Ask yourself this question: If TWC management looks the other way with issues such as this, why should the public trust that same management to deliver truth in reporting on weather and climate change when ratings and popularity, not facts, appear to steer their course of action?

As Milton Friedman put it: Government solutions to problems are usually worse than the problems themselves.

Another good example of it is in the Telegraph’s use of the word “doomed” in the headline of the article linked to by mercurior. Check out the abstract of the paper and you will see what a misrepresentation it is of the paper’s content it is.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7192/abs/nature06960.html