Updated
April 14, 2008 
Updated
April 14, 2008 | Contains Weather
and Railroad
(including Arkansas
Railroader and nationwide Railroad Abandonments
) sites, plus CURRENT
RAIL PHOTOS/TRIPS. Check out my Personal
Stuff like our Alaska
Trip ** Montana/Midwest
Trip 2002 ** Montana
Trip 2004 * Cat
Pictures ** Texas Bluebonnets, April 1, 2006 ** Wye Mountain
Daffodils 2003 **
Brilliant
Sunrise Dec 2, 2006 * * Trumpeter
Swans, Magness Lake, Heber Springs, AR Feb 18, 2007 ** Rose Garden
Little Rock AR May 5, 2007 **
NEW-Global Warming News, Sites and Discussions
from good sources ** LIVE
SOUTH POLE WEBCAM (Noaa) ** Snowgeese-WhiteRiver
Feb 2, 2008. Gene
Hull Railroad History Stories (only
a few of his hundreds of stories). |
| GLOBAL
WARMING SITES I'll try to put various good sites here with information about climate change/global warming. I'm trying to get various viewpoints and research sources for this site and if you have any sites you think would qualify, give me that link. Just email me at the email button at the top of this page. My opinion? The science is not settled on the exact causes of the warming that's going on, but the climate is indeed warming nevertheless, as it has done several times in the past. It has also cooled in the past several times into ice ages. The industrial age, with its pollution and greenhouse gases, certainly makes some contribution to global warming but I'm still not convinced we're causing ALL the warming, like some say. I just have a gut feeling that the Sun has to play some part, as well as other natural causes. No, global warming is not a hoax, but neither is it worth being paranoid about. We'll adjust fine as we learn more and deal with it. (Ken Z - retired meterologist) |
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| 48
States Temp Trend Since 1895 (NOAA/NCDC - does not show
consistent warming in the states) |
U. S. Drought Map | Climate change chart (Last 2 billion years) | |
| ARKANSAS
CLIMATE STATS (Entire historical record with daily extremes and events for each day of the year beginning in 1879) |
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to record lows -
August 2007 (National Snow and Ice Data Center) Another Article by NASA (Explains that clear skies and strong winds aided in the melting.) |
NASA
and Journal Science reported a new Ice Age possible in a 1971 article (Newsbusters.org with good sources) |
Journal NATURE Main
Climate Site |
| Journal NATURE Climate
Blogs (Very good discussions on climate change from a respected, peer-reviewed source) |
American Meteorological Society
ClimatePolicy.org Blogs (Good climate change discussions from the AMS) |
RealClimate.org (Discussions on climate change, most very good. It tries to debunk any view that doesn't go along with the prevailing scientific consensus that humans are the main cause of the warming, but it at least lists other opinions) |
Climate
Ark (Stories and news on climate change with a lot of focus on deforestation) |
| World Climate Report (According to the site "The World's Longest Running Climate Change Blog"). It has some very good articles. |
Weather Channel Climate Blog (Interesting articles and blogs. One article talked about the overpaving of America and the heat island effect, for instance (Sep 20, 2007 Purdue study). |
Foreign Policy Association Climate Change
web log (Discusses such issues as carbon tax, political climate decisions, energy bills, etc) |
Environmental
Defense - Climate 411 blogs (Good articles on climate change, leans toward the consensus of human-caused warming) |
| Cold
kills more than heat - WSJ Opinion Sep 20. 2007 (This opinion says that global warming may not be so bad - here's a partial quote: "Whereas 2,000 people died in the United Kingdom in that heat wave (Aug 2003), last year (2006) the BBC reported that deaths caused by cold weather in England and Wales were about 25,000 each winter") |
Global
Warming Primer - National Center for Policy Analysis (A 40-page PDF file that has great charts of various causes and explains global warming in great detail) |
Co2
Did NOT cause the end of last Ice Age (NASA-Sep 27, 2007) ("The climate dynamic is much more complex than simply saying that CO2 rises and the temperature warms," Stott said. The complexities "have to be understood in order to appreciate how the climate system has changed in the past and how it will change in the future.") |
(Sep
2007 - "Dr. Bromwich (head of Polar
Meteorology Group at Byrd
Polar Research Center) found
that the global models that the IPCC relies on are at odds with his own
findings. Antarctica's temperatures during the late 20th century did
not climb as global climate models predicted.)
Live Antarctic Webcam |
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List of
Advancing Glaciers
(From IceAgeNow.com - has good sources listing advancing glaciers and other non-warming articles) Growing Glaciers Article (Viewed Oct 2007) |
IPCC clarification: There are too many who think the IPCC does a lot of the scientific work on examining global warming/climate change. They do NOT (from their website): "The IPCC does not carry out research nor does it monitor climate related data or other relevant parameters. It bases its assessment mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature.") Check out their website: |
(Excellent NOAA article and
webcams discussion about the short Arctic summers in 2002-2003-2004.
"Despite the small number of ice thickness measurements that are
available, it seems highly likely that the summer loss of ice in 2004
was anomalously small and that the 2004 melting season was unusually
short." Low clouds were present in 2004, unlike the unsually warm
Arctic summer of 2007, when skies were abnormally clear.)
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Global
Warming Not As Bad as Hyped - ABC News 20/20 Oct 19, 2007 (Is it a crisis? The globe is warming, but is it really all our fault? And is it true the debate is over? No. What you think you know may not be so It also says some IPCC reviewers are NOT scientists.) |
| WeatherDiscussions (A great weather site with weather forecasts worldwide, weather discussion forums) |
Maldives
Islands Sea Level Facts (From Stanford University - good PDF article showing sea levels have been much higher and lower at the Maldives than present and inhabitants survived.) |
(Great
movie interviews showing both sides of the global warming issues)
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Antartica
Spared Most Warming (November 2007 final IPCC report relayed by AccuWeather) Also, news article on above |
| IPCC AR4
Report (PDF) (Novmeber 2007 - good reading on regional and global warming causes and effects - not as alarmist as some would think. About 11 MB)) |
1997-2006
WORLD TEMP TREND MAP (NASA) (Shows cooling central and eastern Antarctica, warming in the west) |
Not
All Arctic Changes Due to Global Warming - (NASA - November
13, 2007) ("A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in |
(This
petition says that "There is
no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide,
methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the
foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's
atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is
substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon
dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and
animal environments of the Earth." Lots of good charts and it lists
names of signers and states they live in.)
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| Current
N Hemisphere Sea Ice (Univeristy of Illinois-Urbana) - Graph showing up to date sea ice in the northern hemisphere for the past 365 days.) Cryosphere Today (Various products showing sea ice-UIUC) Total Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice (in case the charts on UIUC's site go down) Arctic Climate Change (Good papers, news from UIUC) |
Arctic
Temperatures 1960-2004 and 1880-2004 (This site uses some UIUC data from 1979 to present showing the low sea ice extent through summer 2007, but also shows a chart of Arctic temperatures from 1960-2004 and the same chart going back to 1880. These graphs show that Arctic temperatures were much warmer in the 1920-1940 period that today). |
Study
showing how the media over-hypes global warming (Business and Media Institute) John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, weather blog (He doesn't believe there is a climate crisis) Unbiased look at the GW issue (ICECAP, International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, is the portal to all things climate for elected officials and staffers, journalists, scientists, educators and the public.) |
US
Senate Report Listing 400 International Scientists who disagree with
Global Warmng alarmism (While most agree the earth is warming, they disagree with the 'Science it Settled' and alarmists mentality of the IPCC summary and major media outlets. This report lists the 400 names and affliations and their reasons for dissent. Report issued December 2007 ) |
| F5 TORNADOES SINCE 1950 (NOAA) HISTORIC TORNADOES IN THE U.S. (NOAA) DEADLIEST TORNADOES (NOAA) |
(This
says human/industrial CO2 production is drawfed by animal and other
natural CO2 production and that the only way we can reduce CO2 and not
cause a decrease in breathable oxygen is to plant billions of trees
that have been lost since 1492)
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CLIMATE SCIENCE (Good site for a more balanced view on climate change, not just the headlines and alarmism, but also news behind the headlines that gets ingored in the media) |
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