2012 Weblog awards – SKEPTIC CLEAN SWEEP

Considering the competition this really is a great thing for WattsUpWithThat.
And more people will now know about the “skeptic” sources!!
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remember what we are still up against:
26 Feb: Guardian: Climate change will shake the EarthA changing climate isn’t just about floods, droughts and heatwaves. It brings erupting volcanoes and catastrophic
by Bill McGuire
(Bill McGuire is professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London. Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes is published by Oxford University Press.
Hear him on the Science Weekly podcast at guardian.co.uk/scienceweekly)
The signs are that this is already happening. In the detached US state of Alaska, where climate change has propelled temperatures upwards by more than 3C in the last half century, the glaciers are melting at a staggering rate, some losing up to 1km in thickness in the last 100 years…
So what – geologically speaking – can we look forward to if we continue to pump out greenhouse gases at the current hell-for-leather rate? With resulting global average temperatures likely to be several degrees higher by this century’s end, we could almost certainly say an eventual goodbye to the Greenland ice sheet, and probably that covering West Antarctica too, committing us – ultimately – to a 10-metre or more hike in sea levels…
Across the world, as sea levels climb remorselessly, the load-related bending of the crust around the margins of the ocean basins might – in time – act to sufficiently “unclamp” coastal faults such as California’s San Andreas, allowing them to move more easily…
Unless there is a dramatic and completely unexpected turnaround in the way in which the human race manages itself and the planet, then long-term prospects for our civilisation look increasingly grim. At a time when an additional 220,000 people are lining up at the global soup kitchen each and every night; when energy, water and food resources are coming under ever-growing pressure, and when the debilitating effects of anthropogenic climate change are insinuating themselves increasingly into every nook and cranny of our world and our lives, the last thing we need is for the dozing subterranean giant to awaken.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/26/why-climate-change-shake-earth?newsfeed=true

REPLY: I have a story coming online on this in about 4 hours – Anthony

Nick says:
February 26, 2012 at 5:18 pm
“Intelligent, Educated, Georgous and now a Prize Winner and Australian. How can it get any better than that? 😉”
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Is she single and owns a bar?

I think that what sets this site appart from other climate related sites is the Reference Pages.
There is no comentary on the Reference Pages, the data is there for all to see.
The sources are clear, the data is clear.
No amount of spin, verbage, modeling, authority, argument or alarmisum can change the data.
The data is what it is and if you disagree with it then you are wrong, simple.
Congratulation Anthony and tem, well done, well deserved.

pat said @ur momisugly February 26, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Quoting The Grauniad:

Unless there is a dramatic and completely unexpected turnaround in the way in which the human race manages itself and the planet, then long-term prospects for our civilisation look increasingly grim.

Which is true. So why don’t they stop spending our taxes on stupid bloody bird mincers, chopping down orangutan habitat for biodiesel and converting food into ethanol. Oh wait, the Git likes ethanol and grapes are food. But I refuse to stick the bloody stuff in Mrs Git’s car!

Congratulations, Anthony, and congrats JoAnne Nova, Steven McIntyre and Rog Tallbloke!
This is better than the Oscars :-))
Sceptics’ sites weeping the awards board on three continents shows clearly that people are hungry for clear scientific debates, for debates without ideology and group think, for debates proceeding with honesty and without personal attacks.
This shows that people hunger for the truth, and have had enough of being taken for granted by the IPCC establishment with their accretions of university and NGO groupthink.
So congrats also …. to all of us!

Congratulations, all. Well deserved.

Well done Anthony. Well deserved. Twice.