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Brucemelton
Posted December 18, 2011
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Have you ever heard of icequakes 1,000 times more powerful than anything before coming from Greenland¿s Ice Sheet? How about much of the U.S. seeing perpetual Dust Bowl conditions beginning in 2030? Or how about our emissions being 14,000 times greater today than at any time in the last 610,000 years? Then there are recent discoveries about our atmosphere that tell us transportation is responsible for two and a half times more warming than energy (coal.) Have you possibly heard that the solutions to climate change will be no more difficult or costly than the creation of our human waste collection and treatment infrastructure? This information is not coming from the blogosphere, it is coming directly from the peer reviewed academic findings of climate researchers.
Bruce Melton¿s new book Climate Discovery Chronicles: Recent, Relatively Unknown Discoveries About Our Rapidly Changing World, details 41 new climate discoveries that are virtually unknown in the media. This book is the first of its kind.
This is no ordinary book about climate change. It focuses on climate changes happening now. The 100 plus color photos of actual climate changes already underway demonstrate this. But more, this book does not drone on about the basics of climate science and physics and chemistry and a half dozen other arcane scientific disciplines. This book is about the real deal, happening faster than predicted. Bruce takes the reader to where the action is and his communications training and decades of experience with critical environmental issues help him cut to the core of what the scientists are saying in their research findings.
Why are these, what some would say ¿alarmist¿ discoveries not making the news? Climate science is as complicated as rocket science, but this has not stopped the media from covering other complicated issues in the past. Those other things though, were not influenced by such large and well documented campaigns by vested interests and political authority figures denying the very existence of climate change. Just last year, Gallup¿s longest running climate change poll (since 1997) shows us that only 49 percent of their cross section believes that climate scientists¿ findings are valid or underestimated. In other words, half of Americans believe the climate crisis is bunk. But this is not what the vast majority of climate scientists say.
A paper out of Stanford titled ¿Expert credibility in climate change,¿ shows us that between 97 and 98 percent of nearly 1,400 climate scientists¿ publications reviewed, published by climate scientists who are most actively publishing findings in their field, support the human-caused climate change consensus. Out of the two to three percent that do not support the consensus (less than 35 climate scientists), 80 percent have published fewer than 20 papers. The consensus crowd includes only 10 percent of scientists who have published fewer than 20 papers. So not only do almost all climate scientists support the consensus position, those that do not support it do not have anywhere near the credentials as the consensus crowd.
Because such a large number of people believe there is still a dispute, climate change is not a money making issue for the media. They have been burned by alarmism in the past. Now that it is real, they cannot tell the difference because a few vested interests have the money to yell louder than almost every climate scientist in the world combine
Overview
If this is not climate change, then this is what climate change will be like in what could be as little as a decade. Not your typical climate change book, this work details 40 recent climate science discoveries with 120 color images. Some of the smartest people in the world have been telling us for over twenty years that these things would happen-that is just what this book reports. Entries include things like the great pine beetle pandemic across 64 million acres of the Rocky Mountains where a native pine beetle attack is 10 to 20 times larger than anything ever known. The beetles have been driven berserk by warming. Other discoveries include: icequakes 1,000 times more powerful than anything ever before seen in