Tag Archives: reality

Peak carbon by 2025 or mass extinction of species

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Rick Altman

I have been looking back at some of my earliest posts on this blog; and have decided that now would be a good time to pull together some of the key points I have highlighted over the years – regarding … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Denial, Environment, Fossil Fuels, IPCC, Mass Extinctions, Politics, UNFCCC | Tagged Anthropogenic Climate Disruption, Environmental Change Institute, IIED, IPCC, Myles Allen, Nature, Oxford University, reality | 11 Comments

Now is no time for climate change scepticism

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Rick Altman

This graph, as compiled by Dr Ed Hawkins (Reading University/Met Office), featured in an article by Damian Carrington, on the Guardian website yesterday, which highlighted the fact that: 2014 will be the warmest year in Central England for over 300 … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Environment, Growthmania, Politics, UNFCCC | Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, COP 20, Ed Hawkins, Guardian, Herman Daly, Met Office, NASA, reality, Writing on the wall | 8 Comments

Apologies for absence

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Rick Altman

… but this is no time for climate change scepticism! For me, the last 12 months have been something of an emotional rollercoaster; and the ride has not yet come to an end. However, if I have any regrets about … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Environment | Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, Central England, Damian Carrington, Guardian, reality, Temperature Record | 8 Comments

Climate change is here and now

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Rick Altman

Please don’t be a Climate Ostrich. The UN is not being ‘alarmist’ in order to achieve global Zionist and/or Communist domination. Working Group 2 of AR5 warns that the effects of human caused climate change are most likely to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Denial, Environment, IPCC | Tagged AR5, Carpe diem, climate change, IPCC, Ocean Acidification, reality, Roger Harrabin, UN, WG2 | 8 Comments

The graphical nature of reality

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Rick Altman

In response to demand (and comments submitted), here is yesterday’s post in graphical form: Questioning the reality, reliability, or reasonableness of the consensus understanding of atmospheric physics (i.e. that post-1850 warming cannot be explained unless 40% extra atmospheric CO2 is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Environment, Ethics, Fossil Fuels, Growthmania, Merchants of Doubt, Politics, Pseudo science, Storms of my Grandchildren | Tagged corruption, reality, Voodoo Histories | 1 Comment

The mother of all hockey sticks

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Rick Altman

Words are not really necessary to accompany this image but, if you want some, feel free to go and read ‘The Last Time CO2 Was This High Humans Did Not Exist” by Andrew Freedman on the Climate Central website. However, … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Environment, Intergenerational Injustice, James Hansen, Mass Extinctions, Palaeoclimatology, Storms of my Grandchildren | Tagged Andrew Freeman, Andrew Montford, Atmospheric CO2, Climate Central, Entropy, Mauna Loa, reality, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 18 Comments

More freezes will melt climate change doubts

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Rick Altman

So said Lord (Julian) Hunt, Vice President of GLOBE and a former Director General of the UK’s Meteorological Office, in an article published in The Times newspaper on 2 April 2013 (behind paywall). Fortunately (for me and all those without … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Environment, Intergenerational Injustice, Mass Extinctions, Scepticism | Tagged China, GLOBE, Julian Hunt, Meteorological Office, reality | 18 Comments