A presentation based off of her recent book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth about Climate Change. Naomi Oreskes, author and professor of history and science studies, University of California, San Diego. From the University of Rhode Island’s Spring 2010 Vetlesen Lecture Series, People and Planet Global Environmental Change. March 2, 2010.

Part 2 of a special Heat Wave edition Part 1 is here: www.youtube.com Support Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Go here – www.greenmanstudio.com NASA – Piecing together the Temperature puzzle http www.nasa.gov NASA solar graph data.giss.nasa.gov NASA 2008 review data.giss.nasa.gov NASA 2009 review www.giss.nasa.gov NASA Are sunspots disappearing? science.nasa.gov Global News/Vancouver Sun/hottest year so far www.canada.com Lou Dobbs show, Jan 13, 09 www.youtube.com UK Met Office Hottest decade www.metoffice.gov.uk

To help support Climate Denial Crock of the Week Go to climatecrocks.com 13 years of emails, and this is the best they can do? More of the REAL story behind the non-story. reference these links: www.sgr.org.uk coast.gkss.de www.prospect.org www.lcv.org web.archive.org www.cfa.harvard.edu www.csicop.org www.nytimes.com www.wmo.int climateprogress.org

Lord Christopher Monckton is a British consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and hereditary peer. While not formally trained in science, Monckton is one of the most cited and widely published climate skeptics, having even been invited to testify to the US Senate and Congress on several occasions. www.skepticalscience.com www.parliament.uk Lord Monckton’s scientific qualifications ……..crickets chirping Monckton is listed as a “Chief Policy Advisor” for the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). The SPPI was until recently managed under the name “Center for Science and Public Policy Institute” by another free market think-tank called the Frontiers of Freedom. Frontiers of Freedom has received over $1 million in funding from ExxonMobil and over $1 million from Koch Industries. Monckton is listed as a “Global Warming expert” for the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based free market think-tank. The Heartland Institute frequently attacks the scientific evidence for human-caused climate change. The Heartland Institute has received over $791000 from oil-giant ExxonMobil since 1998. www.greenpeace.org John P. Abrahams is an Associate Professor at the University of St Thomas. He has a Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, MS 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota and BS 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. John’s career to date has involved incorporating experimental work in heat transfer and fluid mechanics …

Russia’s deadly wildfires, the smog-filled cities and poor harvest, are being seen by some environmentalists as signs of man-made climate change. But Piers Corbyn of the Weather Action Foundation says the heatwave is only down to climate cycles…

A basic look at how climate scientists infer that man-made carbon gases are changing the climate, and how this view is contradicted by other climate scientists who are skeptics. I am a former science correspondent with an interest in reporting the facts, not the media hype. My thanks to 9thgate for checking my script for errors.

Use the moderator module to play me in chess: ‪youtube.com Email me: danbrownuniverse@gmail.com Harry Potter Alliance (Official Site): thehpalliance.org Imagine Better Contest: imaginebetter.org Dear Dan, I continue to be frustrated by the way we as a society are missing the point around this Climate Crisis. The majority of people still think that caring about the environment is a “do gooder” thing to do. Save the polar bears. Save the trees. Save the beaches. What about save our grandchildren? Somehow we continue to hear about the Climate Crisis as if its threats are limited to forests and polar bears when in fact they extend to human rights. Poised to trigger wars over water, the drowning of island nations, the genocide of refugees, a collapse in the global economy, dramatic increases in hunger, natural disasters, poverty, disease, and other horrors beyond imagination, the Climate Crisis is a villain that we cannot afford to ignore any longer. Our biggest challenge is that most of our world remains uninspired to join in. I believe that we can be the heroes we’ve dreamt of being since we were little. And I believe as these heroes for our world, we’ve got to have the courage to inspire. That’s where the Imagine Better Contest comes in. The Imagine Better Contest can be found at imaginebetter.org It goes from June 27th to July 20 at 11:59 ET. Here folks can come up with ideas and art to inspire people. For the idea contest, people just put in ideas that will change their …

To support Climate Crocks: go to www.climatecrocks.com Many climate deniers still seem to think global warming was invented by Al Gore, in 2006. As this recently uncovered recording from 1956 shows, the outlines of climate change science have been clear for many decades. More Greenhouse history “In the 70s, they said there’d be an Ice Age” www.youtube.com Excursions in Science, complete recording www.youtube.com The Discovery of Global Warming www.aip.org summary of climate science history www.aip.org The last 55 million years – Hansen et al, Target CO2 www.columbia.edu Hansen’s Bjerknes Lecture to the American Geophysical Union pdf or ppt download here www.columbia.edu

Meteorologist Dave Eichorn explains how warming in the Arctic associated with climate change has resulted in colder temperatures and snowy weather much further south in segment two of a meteorologist’s view on climate change. About A meteorologist’s view on climate change video series: 30 year veteran meteorologist Dave Eichorn explains climate science, climate change, and regional to national weather events through an environmental meteorological perspective. Other videos include: A meteorologist on climate change — www.youtube.com ESF Climate Literacy Project: The video series is part of a NASA supported Global Climate Change Education project at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY to increase climate science literacy. In addition to the free YouTube video series there is a 6 week 1 credit lower level undergraduate online course and a full semester 3 credit upper level undergraduate online course if you wish to pursue climate science in more depth and earn college credits — www.esf.edu .

Help Support Crock of the Week: www.climatecrocks.com The history of the earth is immense, and diverse – and its easy to get confused and mangle history, — to mix things that never belonged together in the real world. What was natural in the distant past might not be a good fit alongside man’s creations. Human beings and the climate of the ancient world, could find themselves on a collision course. Richard Alley, Bjerknes Lecture, American Geophysical Union, December 2009 http Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum sediments www.ecord.org www.gns.cri.nz Hydrogen sulfide blooms off Namibia earthobservatory.nasa.gov io9.com snowball earth – dropstones and carbon cap www.earlham.edu “The Day Earth Died” BBC part 1 www.veoh.com part 2 www.veoh.com A major drop in seawater 87Sr/86Sr during the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian): Links to volcanism and climate? www.geology.ohio-state.edu Tripati et al, Miocene sea levels and CO2 newsroom.ucla.edu www.seas.harvard.edu University of York, Greenhouse/Extinction connection www.york.ac.uk US Geological Survey, Volcanic gases volcanoes.usgs.gov Earth: A Biography www.bbcearth.com channel.nationalgeographic.com www.netflix.com