I heard the funniest thing back when ClimateGate hit the scene. I actually heard someone say "global warming is dead."
I had to laugh.
Obviously someone didn't get the memo.
So I started collecting headlines on my daily rounds.
All of these are since ClimateGate:
Panel Will Review U.N. Climate Work
"Let me be clear, he said. "The threat of climate change is real." (NY Times)
Despite Climategate, IPCC Mostly Underestimates Climate Change
James McCarthy of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment noted that the IPCC usually errs on the conservative side. (Scientific American)
Climate Scientists Plan To Hit Back At Skeptics
Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach" to gut the credibility of skeptics. (Fox News)
Study: Human Impact On Climate Now Clearer
Scientists say the research shows greater evidence for human impact on the climate now than the data available when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its much-maligned report in 2007, warning of "unequivocal" proof of warming. (CBS News)
EPA, Countering Critics Of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says 'Science Is Settled'
The EPA says it is going forward with "common sense measures that are helping to protect Americans from this threat" and said its critics are trying to "stall progress." (Fox News)
World Warming Unhindered By Cold Spells: Scientists
The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards. (Reuters)
Meteorologists: Last Month Warmest January On Record by Far
It is what climate scientists predict happens and will happen more frequently with global warming, according to an authoritative report by hundreds of climate scientists issued this month. (Fox News)
Peru Glacier Breaks Up, Causes Tsunami
It was one of the most concrete signs yet that glaciers are disappearing in Peru, home to 70 percent of the world's tropical icefields. Scientists say warmer temperatures will cause them to melt away altogether. (MSNBC)
Study: Stronger Hurricanes Loom
Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. (MSNBC)
Earthquakes And Tsunamis Just The Tip Of The Iceberg, Say Experts
In papers published by the Royal Society, researchers warned that melting ice, sea level rises and even increasingly heavy storms and rainfall -- predicted consequences of rising temperatures -- could affect the Earth's crust. Even small changes in the environment could trigger activity such as earthquakes and tsunamis. (The Scotsman)
Undersea Arctic Methane Could Wreak Havoc on Climate
Why is the permafrost failing? According to the study, the process occurs naturally over thousands of years but is being accelerated by man-made climate warming. (USA Today)
Climate Change Will Impact Infectious Diseases Worldwide
But as Thompson noted, despite its challenges, climate change can be a relatively solid rock on which to moor infectious disease planning. Many functions of human populations, from geographical displacement to lifestyle changes, that influence disease transmission can be exceedingly hard to track, she said. "Climate is one thing you can actually measure." (Scientific American)
Climate Change May Extend Allergy Season
Sneezing, congestion, and runny noses from hay fever may be lasting longer because climate change may be extending pollen seasons, doctors in Italy said on Monday. (MSNBC)
Darwin Foes Add Warming To Targets
For mainstream scientists, there is no credible challenge to evolutionary theory. They oppose the teaching of alternative views like intelligent design, the proposition that life is so complex that it must be the design of an intelligent being. And there is wide agreement among scientists that global warming is occurring and that human activities are probably driving it. (NY Times)
Coast Guard Sees Increasing Need For Icebreakers
Allen sidestepped a question on whether he believes in climate change, though he said "certain things are undeniable," including a smaller ice cap and changes in ocean temperature and chemistry. (CBS News)
Report: March Was Earth's Warmest On Record
In addition, climate researchers have been reporting rising global temperatures for several years as a result of the Greenhouse Effect, in which rising levels of carbon dioxide and others gases in the atmosphere trap heat instead of allowing it to escape out into space. (USA Today)
Winter Was Fifth Warmest On Record
However, worldwide temperatures have also been climbing in recent years, a warming attributed by most atmospheric scientists to chemicals added to the air by human activities since the start of the Industrial Revolution. (CBS News)
On Global Warming, The Science Is Solid
While aspects of climate change impacts have been overstated, none of the errors or allegations of misbehavior undermine the science behind any of the statements made above. In particular, they do not alter the conclusions that humans have taken over from nature as the dominant influence on our climate. (Houston Chronicle)
US Senate Climate Bill To Be Unveiled April 26
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - A long-awaited compromise bill to reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming will be unveiled by a group of senators on April 26, sources said on Thursday. (Reuters)
To quote Samuel Clemens,
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
