Denis Dutton has gone and done it again. You should already be familiar with his Arts & Letters Daily site -- compulsory browsing at least once a week for anyone who uses the web for something more than just hooking up on Facebook. Now he's collaborating in a new project that seems just as likely to be on every thinking web user's list of essential reading: Climate Debate Daily, a regular summation of the latest news and writing from both the sceptical and warmist sides of the global warming debate.
Bookmark it now. Here's some top reading from each camp currently appearing on the front page:
- 2007 was the seventh warmest year since record-keeping began, the IPCC says, and made for brutal weather...continue »
- The year of global cooling. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards. And look at the Southern Hemisphere...continue »
- Thanks to global warming huge swaths of right-wing America are set to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles...continue »
- Virtual science, the kind the IPCC uses to scare us to death, is ripe for manipulation, usually unconsciously, by virtuous scientists. Michael Duffy explains...continue »
- We are in for a minimum of 90 more years of warming no matter how many Hummers are junked in favor of Priuses. Let's adapt...continue »
- Better for Australia to cut the panic and build “a strong economy and thus the adaptive capacity to deal with whatever catastrophes unaided nature may have in store for us”...continue »
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteDenis Dutton
Global warming, that's what we want here in Wellington!
ReplyDeleteAccording to The Dominion Post, we're the sunniest of the five main centres (AKL, WGN, CHC, Dunedin and Hamilton), and apart from the occasional heavy rainfall, the weather has been very good, exceptional by Welly standards.