"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" May 2011 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

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Hmm: Two independent satellite studies show that ice sheets are melting faster than expected by IPCC, and accelerating by TokyoTom

1. See this March 8, 2011 Washington Post article : The vast ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than previously thought, and that melting is accelerating, according to a new report that verifies 18 years of melting via two independent...
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Callahan and Richman have asserted the efficacy of moral suasion in getting people and organizations to change climate behavior; here are two people's efforts to persuade, post-tornado by TokyoTom

I discussed Callahan and Richman at some length previously . Since I hope they are right, I bring you some comments I recently ran across: 1. Peter H. Gleick , A Cost of Denying Climate Change: Accelerating Climate Disruptions, Death, and Destruction...
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Feedbacks mean that the warming resulting from a doubling of CO2 may be much higher than 3 C, say more paleo-climate studies by TokyoTom

I have discussed climate "sensitivity" a number of times earlier; here is a good place to start for those interested: http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/10/14/what-do-we-know-about-climate-models-and-climate-quot-sensitivity...
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Have we already pulled the trigger on the methane gun? As Arctic warms, surprisingly large and uncontrollable releases of methane (much more potent than CO2) are growing from massive shallow seabed deposits and permafrost by TokyoTom

1. Wikipedia, Clathrate gun hypothesis (emphasis added): The clathrate gun hypothesis is the popular name given to the hypothesis that rises in sea temperatures (and/or falls in sea level) can trigger the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate...
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Tornadoes, fires and floods, oh my! Time to stop hiding our heads in the sand. Who benefits from our loading of the climate dice? by TokyoTom

[My apologies for weird formatting, I find it very difficult to deal with html embedded in text that I cut and paste!] No doubt a locally cold winter helped many readers put behind them thoughts about last year's worldwide record droughts, floods...
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Richard Nixon, not enviros, was responsible for meddling in energy usage by TokyoTom

Rob Bradley , an erstwhile libertarian turned energy industry spokesman - and thus no friend of enviro-fascists (or libertarian critics like me) - provides a useful reminder of the history of government interference in energy (though he omits the Vietnam...
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