Have the climate sceptics really won?
Despite recent fears of sceptics winning public debates, they are not all powerful, but have cast a spell upon their opponentsEarlier this week, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times announced that the "climate sceptics have won". His comments echo those of former Nasa scientist James Hansen who told an audience in Edinburgh last year that the sceptics "have been winning the public debate with the help of tremendous resources." The action needed in response to this situation was spelt out by Lord Stern – the eponymous author of the well-known 2007 report on the economics of climate change – who once called sceptics "force...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 24, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Roger Pielke Jr Tags: Blogposts Science policy guardian.co.uk Climate change Climate change scepticism Environment Source Type: news

Ambient temperature and emergency department visits for heat-related illness in North Carolina, 2007-2008 - Lippmann SJ, Fuhrmann CM, Waller AE, Richardson DB.
PURPOSE: To estimate the association between environmental temperatures and the occurrence of emergency department visits for heat-related illness in North Carolina, a large Southern state with 85 rural and 15 urban counties; approximately half the state's...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 11, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news

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