Recent content by Ottawa Mike

There seems to be a lot of concern of scientific research misconduct in the UK, especially in the medical field. "... a BMJ survey of 2,782 doctors and medical academics showed that 13% claimed to have firsthand knowledge of "inappropriately adjusting, excluding, altering or fabricating data"...

I like this forum since there are scientifically literate answerers here endlessly debunking nonsense like 2012, Moon landing hoax theories, astrology, etc. I'd like to know your thoughts on the theory of CO2 driven global warming. I don't want this to be a controversy, I frequent the Global...

"Over the past decade, a wave of drilling around the world has uncovered giant supplies of natural gas in shale rock. By some estimates, there’s 1,000 trillion cubic feet recoverable in North America alone—enough to supply the nation’s natural-gas needs for the next 45 years. Europe may have...

It seems to me that talk about extreme weather like the recent floods in Australia, cold in Europe, heatwave in Russia, floods in Pakistan, etc. is all centered on the proposition that these support the hypothesis of a warming world. So my question is: What extreme weather patterns or events...

Yes, they all appear to be linked: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/08/bees-climate-change-pollination My question is: Why are the bees not emerging from hibernation earlier? Does this really deserve to be "climate change news"?

That's the title of new peer-reviewed study which is in pre-print for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Here are some quotations: "The studies show no trends in losses, corrected for changes (increases) in population and capital at risk, that could be attributed to...

Some people think it is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/aug/25/climate-change-activists-broke-law What does this say about the mindset of some people who are adamant AGW believers? Paul's Alias - I get that you are an anti-smoking fanatic because you keep bringing...

"The two year study from the UN Environment Programmme, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), will show that the annual economic impact of biodiversity loss stands at between $2 trillion (£1.3 trillion) and $4.5 trillion, equating to up to 7.5 per cent of global gross domestic...

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There are thousands of scientists, most major scientific academies and institutions, the major UN climate body, etc. that clearly show CO2 is causing warming. It's been called a solid consensus and even that the science is settled. There has been unequivocal warming since the beginning of the...