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Published 05th October 2010 - 1 comments - 1105 views -
Let us re-boot climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu with fresh data: Graphs of temperature rise, polar ice decline and more.
Click the graphs to visit the sources.
Anthropogenic Climate Change: It's for real.
"A lot of smart people who nonetheless "did not accept" AGW, or at least, denied the "A" part of it, have stoped talking about it lately."
Reconstructed tropical South American temperature anomalies for the last ∼1600 years
"The last decades of the past millennium are characterized again by warm temperatures that seem to be unprecedented in the context of the last 1600 years."
Temperature Anomalies 1880-2010
Long term sea and land temperature anamoly trend. Speaks for itself.
Countries that set new record highs in 2010
"No nations set record for their coldest temperature in history in 2010."
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Trends: 1979-2010
"The 2010 melt season shows that Arctic Sea Ice continues to long-term decline."
Composite total solar irradiance
Carbon dioxide levels and temperatures are rising, ice is melting and it's not because of the sun. Please do not let pre-COP16 discussions get confused about these facts.
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Benno HansenCopenhagen, Denmark
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MSc degree in horticulture from Copenhagen University, thesis on Hidden Markov Modelling of protein sequences. Fields of professional interests include: Writing popular science texts, ecology, multi-disciplinary work, bioinformatics and computational biology, sustainability, plant biology. Also did two semesters of computer business studies - before upgrading from business school indoctrination to Copenhagen University enlightenment.
Currently working in patent department of major multinational pharmaceutical corporation. Have also written for magazines at an advertising bureau, supported university students in their IT-tasks, helped maintain the university hardware, software and websites, vacuum cleaned bodies of escaped laboratory test frogs, been a mail man with the Danish Postal Service and counted the number of passengers for the Danish Railways.
My goal is to publish a best selling science fiction novel and/or get elected for parliament with an intellectual party. But I spend a lot more time betting on football matches (and winning), attending FC Copenhagen home games which I hold a season ticket for, reading lots of science fiction and popularized science, blogging, skating my Remz inlines and eating organic meals with my beautiful, eco-friendly biomedicine ethicist girlfriend.
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