INTRODUCTION

There’s a kind of doomsday feel to things right now - have you noticed? It’s not just that the Mayan calendar runs out on December 21st of next year. It’s not even the plethora of new warnings from astrophysicists, doctors and geologists about the possibly catastrophic events that are now known to be on the not-too-distant horizon. It has more to do with the zeitgeist, an undifferentiated sense that things can’t go on like they are forever.
And, of course, there are clues. Almost daily, items half-buried in news reports point to the Doom scenarios just lurking around the corner. Maybe you are too busy or too trapped in denial to notice them all, so this blog is here to help you keep track.

Tuesday 1 November 2011

Something to Worry About Today

Uh-oh.

Just when we thought we had proof that the world is heating up, the research colleague of Professor Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surfaces Temperature programme says he is wrong.

According to Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Prof Muller failed to mention that data exists showing that the earth’s temperature has not risen in the past 13 years. In response, Muller denies leaving out facts, distancing himself from recent claims of British scientists having fiddled the data.

Score one for the climate change deniers. Bad news for the rest of us:  if we can’t get the facts straight, how can we prevent slowly turning to toast?
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