:: Global Warming and Sadomasochist Penguins ::

Have a gander at these videos I found this morning on Global Warming aka Climate Change. The headlines in the articles linked below also reiterate the importance of the videos contents. (Excepting the humorous Penguin parody! I just needed some humor after reading and watching all of this. Thought you might as well.)

+ Panel Issues Bleak Report on Climate Change

+ Humans Faulted for Global Warming: International Panel of Climate Scientists Sounds Dire Alarm

+ Grist: IPCC: Yeah, You Know Me (The 411 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

+ A selection from the Society of Environmental Journalists

+ From Real Climate:

The IPCC Fourth Assessment SPM: We've had a policy of (mostly) not commenting on the various drafts, misquotes and mistaken readings of the Fourth Assessment report ("AR4" to those in the acronym loop) of the IPCC. Now that the summary for policy makers (or "SPM") has actually been published though, we can discuss the substance of the report without having to worry that the details will change. This post will only be our first cut at talking about the whole report. We plan on going chapter by chapter, hopefully explaining the key issues and the remaining key uncertainties over the next few months. This report will be referenced repeatedly over the next few years, and so we can take the time to do a reasonable job explaining what's in it and why.
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Quick pre-SPM round-up: Tomorrow is the big day for all IPCC-watchers (and we'll comment then) but in the meantime here are a few interesting tidbits floating around today. First off, there are some curious patterns in the whitehouse.gov search engine. It turns out that it has been blocked from returning most results if the search phrase includes "global warming" - even if it's from the President himself. For instance, searching for "issue of global" gives as top result the President's Rose Garden speech in June 2001 on Global Climate Change, but searching for "issue of global warming" (which of course is the full phrase used) returns nothing. Hmmm.....<[Hmmmmmm....indeed]

+ From Thoughts from Kansas: IPCC on Hurricanes, Where's My Payola?, and IPCC Summary for Policymakers Released

+ CALLING ALL MUSICIANS: The Muse Campaign (Spread the word!)

And, just for fun, watch these sadomasochist Penguins in "Farce of the Penguins"

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