A school girl in Sweden was allegedly bullied and branded a “climate denier” by her teachers and peers after she refused to participate in the “climate strike.” Responding to the unfair and abusive treatment of her daughter, the mother of the school girl said, “If you do not hang out on Greta Thunberg and for the climate then you should be singled out and bullied……They should at least be neutral and respect the students who do not want to skip school. There must be different ways we can relate … [Read more...]
A Call for Accurate Language about CO2 in the AGW Discussion
In an otherwise fine article at WattsUpwithThat.com, Ari Halperin writes: For some time, the subject [of the residence time of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere] was surrounded by confusion, created by sloppy definitions and evasive statements in IPCC assessment reports. There was a mix-up between the residence time of a CO2 molecule in the atmosphere and the rate of change of the surplus CO2 concentration. The residence time (~5 years) is of little interest, except as an … [Read more...]