While models plod, nature sprints

onMay 31, 2007 @ 08:21 PDT

It used to be that climate scientists worried about how to make the public care about changes that might not happen for a century. Today they have a bigger problem: some of the changes aren’t waiting around that long.

Stefan Rahmstorf, a climatologist at Potsdam University, points out that models tend to underestimate sea level rise, too. “As climatologists, we’re often under fire because of our pessimistic message, and we’re accused of overestimating the problem,” he says. “But I think the evidence points to the opposite—we may have been underestimating it.”

By Ross Gelbspan

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uk/Heartland Institute UK Chief: Group Is Influencing Trump Policy ‘at the Highest Level’

BySam Bright

onMar 13, 2025 @ 09:03 PDT

The climate science denial group, which has been trying to make inroads into Europe, claims it has “strong” ties to “big individuals” in the U.S. administration.

I Spent 3 Days at Jordan Peterson’s Anti-Climate ARC Conference. Here’s What I Saw.

ByMarc Fawcett-Atkinson

onMar 10, 2025 @ 03:00 PDT

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is the global far-right Woodstock, with political and thought leaders mingling with the business elite, conservative nobodies — and me.