The Science Hypothesis: A person unable to judge the scientific validity of two differing viewpoints will tend to agree with the group that:
A) is supported by an unrelated group that they trust (religion, political party, etc.)
B) has the largest number of members
C) is the loudest
D) is best able to express their side in simple terms
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Yesterday, Dr. Pielke gave a presentation titled “Human Impacts on Climate: A Broader View than Reported in the 2007 IPCC Report”. His slides are available on his website as a PDF or Powerpoint.

There was nothing surprising. Same stuff as he blogs about.

From NASA’s Earth Observatory.

Arctic sea ice melted at an unprecedented rate during the summer of 2007. Much of the melting occurred in the East Siberian Sea. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured part of that region on June 15 and July 27, 2007. These images show a portion of the coast of eastern Siberia and the New Siberian Islands, roughly 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of Alaska. Despite some cloud cover, the images show pronounced sea ice retreat over a period of 42 days.

Blog Action Day - On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.