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www.euronews.net Hundreds of millions of people fleeing storms, droughts or floods caused by global warming could end up trapped in disaster areas, according to a report from the British government’s Foresight Group.

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

Support Climate Denial Crock of the Week- go to: www.climatecrocks.com The famous Bell Telephone Hour clip, with the all knowing Dr Frank Baxter explaining a very modern understanding of climate science in 1958. Enlightening and infuriating. Show this to your ditto head buddy who thinks global warming was invented by Al Gore. Many people have seen this on other sites, but I thought it would be good to make it part of the Climate Crocks playlist. More climate history here www.aip.org Gilbert Plass 1955 “Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change” wiki.nsdl.org onramp.nsdl.org Wally Broeker: Coins the term Global Warming in 1975 en.wikipedia.org www.realclimate.org (click on link for original doc at google docs) James Hansen’s 1981 paper in Science climateprogress.org www.skepticalscience.com pubs.giss.nasa.gov

The Royal Television Society Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture 01 December 2010 BBC2 Professor Brian Cox uses this year’s Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture to address the main challenges in bringing science to television. He tackles the risks in simplifying science for a television audience, the perils of abandoning fact in the name of balance and the importance of making science on television intellectually and emotionally engaging.

An introduction to the current and prospective projects undertaken by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Score by JOSH TIMONEN “The Politics of Driving” by The Life and Times from their album “Tragic Boogie” thelifeandtimes.com Get it on iTunes itunes.apple.com