M. Sanjayan: Nature's Guardian Name: M. Sanjayan Age: 45 Hometown: Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Currently lives in Missoula, Montana. ?http://www.afar.com/afar/m-sanjayan-natures-guardian ? I have been to Colombo and Sri Lanka.? The beach in front of Colombo is so strewn with garbage that one can hardly see the sand.? There are many other environmental issues in the whole of the country that M. Sanjayan should have stayed in the country of his birth to address instead of traveling the world explaining to the developed world that has clean air and water how they need to "clean up", unbelievable. ? On a lighter note, we did enjoy our stay and visit at Sigiriya and the view from the top of the strange red mountain, Kandy was OK but? Nuwara Eliya was more memorable and our stay at the St. Andrew's Hotel was very enjoyable.? It was different to be in the tropics and have hot water bottles placed in the bed by the staff at night and to also have an electric heater, that we used, in the rooms.?? The hotel looks over the third oldest golf course in the world, or so I was told.? Also M. Sanjayan? must be aware that the relatively small island of Sri Lanka has two distinct and different monsoon seasons, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with climate, in his way of thinking.? I wonder if our being continually stopped at police check points by police because of the Tamil Tiger situation had anything to do with why M. does not want to "clean up his own backyard", so to speak, and why he prefers to fly fish in Montana. ? "He is one of the most articulate people I know," said Daniel Pletscher, UM Wildlife Biology Program director. "He has the outstanding ability of explaining difficult scientific issues to the average layperson and scholar alike." http://news.umt.edu/2012/05/051112cbsn.aspx ? It is really a shame that in addition to being articulate,? M. Sanjayan can't present this in the realm of what is the TRUTH.
"In Kaktovik, an Arctic village, I visited a 70-year-old Inupiat man who showed me the ice cellar that had been in his family for generations. Today, it doesn't stay cold enough for him to store meat. Instead, a big General Electric freezer is sitting on his porch. My god, we're now selling freezers to the Eskimos!"? M. Sanjayan http://www.afar.com/afar/m-sanjayan-natures-guardian
It took all of two minutes to come up with the information below and from just a quick appraisal of it and from my 14 years of experience from living 140 miles north of the arctic circle above Kotzebue, AK.; what M. Sanjayan, Wildlife Program at the University of Montana claims above is not the truth and if you can't be trusted to tell the truth about something as simple and easy to verify as this, then when and regarding what will M. Sanjayan prove to be an honest and therefore, trustworthy scientist that one could feel comfortable quoting about anything?
The chart below certainly shows that the old Inupiat man's meat would have kept as well, if not better, in 2012 because during that year the mean temperature was -19.0 F. We don't take into consideration that this meat pit dug into the permafrost that the polar bears had probably raided to the point that the poor old Inupiat man felt that the General Electric freezer sitting on his porch is a lot better than fighting a polar bear to get to his meat.
I know from my experiences in the arctic that it can, on occasion, get very warm but it does not last for long, as the chart below shows.
Past Monthly Weather Data for Kaktovik, AK [Alaska] ("Barter Island (dew)") : JANUARY, 1947 - 2012 All months for this station: JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember http://weather-warehouse.com/WeatherHistory/PastWeatherData_BarterIslandDew_Kaktovik_AK_January.html
"The National Weather Service, the official weather reporting and recording agency of the federal government reported 100 degrees F (37.8 degrees C) at Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915, as the highest recorded temperature in the state. The lowest recorded temperature was minus 80 degrees F (-62.8 degrees C) at Prospect Creek, about 25 miles southeast of Bettles, on January 23, 1971." http://www.alaskool.org/resources/regional/yukon_reg_profile/climate.htm
As Thomas Huxley famously stated: "The great tragedy in science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." and it seems that the fact is that there doesn't seem to be an "earth with a fever" now any more than there was in 1985 or for Alaska, where obviously Kaktovik is located. It is interesting to note the fever that the earth must have been experiencing was in 1915 at Fort Yukon. We sure would not want to talk about that, would we?
Great video! My geography class enjoyed watching your video about the pressing issue of climate change, and we hope you cover the subject more and more. It was great to see that the media is finally taking a stance on the issue that is striking our country, our world, now. We look forward to more videos on the subject!
If you enjoyed this video, you may also want to check out Nature Works Everywhere, a new education program launched by The Nature Conservancy and Discovery Education. (Sanjayan played a major role in its development.) http://www.natureworkseverywhere.org/
Great video! My geography class enjoyed watching your video about the pressing issue of climate change, and we hope you cover the subject more and more. It was great to see that the media is finally taking a stance on the issue that is striking our country, our world, now. We look forward to more videos on the subject!
Excellent piece of commentary, aside from the one mistake: it DOES matter what the cause is, and Dr. Sanjayan knows that greenhouse gas emissions are the cause. To those who complain that he didn't offer evidence, the evidence is there in the scientific literature: 98% of the scientists working in the field are find it to be strongly convincing. Anyone who has an honest desire to find out more can try these blogs:
I think he said that it doesn't matter if you believe or understand the SCIENCE ... the point of the piece is that global warming is happening all around us, now and that it isn't some distant theory. Will check out the blogs you recommend.
I would entreat "Sane-Person" to look at this site and video, especially since the CLOUD experiment that was done in the CERN particle accelerator proves Svenmark's hypothesis and there has never been a test/experiment that has shown that CO2 contributes one damn thing to what the earth's climate does, one way or the other. For the alarmist to make the types of claims that they do regarding CO2 with out ANY proof that it does what they claim is indeed fatuitous.
Svensmark, being a scientist, devised experiments of his own to test his theory and that demonstrates how science works. It is not about a group of self serving charlatans proclaiming that "the debate is over".
"Svensmark: Evidence continues to build that the Sun drives climate, not CO2" http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/svensmark-evidence-continues-to-build.html
Also look into these sites: When Dr Kirkby first described the theory in 1998, he suggested cosmic rays "will probably be able to account for somewhere between a half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's temperature that we have seen in the last century." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/
When Dr Kirkby first described the theory in 1998, he suggested cosmic rays "will probably be able to account for somewhere between a half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's temperature that we have seen in the last century." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/
More sunspots, less cosmic rays, warmer earth. During the last 50 years or so, there have been record numbers of sunspots, low cosmic ray fluxes and somewhat higher temperatures. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html
"One Year of Clouds Covering the Earth At any moment, about 60 percent of the earth is covered by clouds,(According to a NASA web page 70% of the earth is covered by clouds) which have a huge influence on the climate. An animated map showing a year of cloud cover suggests the outlines of continents because land and ocean features influence cloud patterns." http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/01/science/earth/0501-clouds.html
I ask "Sane-Person" who said this: "it DOES matter what the cause is, and Dr. Sanjayan knows that greenhouse gas emissions are the cause.", but of what? If you think that this ubiquitous, odorless, colorless, and benign trace gas essential for life on earth,CO2,that makes up a paltry .037% of the total atmosphere and is 1 & 1/2 times heavier than the rest of the atmosphere is the cause of I assume what you are calling anthropogenic global warming; or, since there has been no warming since 1998, now referred to as "climate change" as though the climate has not always been in a state of flux and change. I ask you these questions. What caused the last ice age and then about 12,000 years ago when it began to warm and produce the life on earth that we now enjoy? Where was the anthropogenic factor that produced the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period followed by the Little Ice Age? Most sane people beside a few led by Michael Mann know the answers to these questions and they did not find those solutions on sites such as what you presented.
Excellent, concise, accurate, and overdue mainstream commentary on climate change. Effective public education on climate change and effective solutions is vital for an sustainable future. Keep up the important work.
Milton Clark, Ph.D. Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Science University of Illinois School of Public Health
Congratulations, CBS, for telling it like it is! Finally someone mainstream is pointing out the white elephant! Keep it up, because it's going to get worse until Americans understand that it will continue to worsen, 24/7/365. Meantime, let's tell Congress that we will vote for candidates that support a quick transition to clean energy -- a major part of the solution... you can, here:
This waste of air space was complete propaganda. No facts, no figures, nothing accountable. The warmest year on record? Says who? I live in Arizona and it was far from the warmest year on record. In the past-- thousands of years before fossil fuels on the scale used today the earth was far warmer according to responsible scientists. The role of the Sun is a major factor in our climate.
I guess the Dinosaur gas passing was more significant than this propaganda artist was led to believe.
Your alleged "correspondent" offered no solutions if there was a real problem since I guess the Soros folks forgot that part. I almost never watch your left wing communist junk network and just tripped on this channel surfing after a ball game. You are all in for a rude awakening in November and perhaps sooner as fewer and fewer of the population even bothers to tune in to your nonsense.
Who, what, when, why and where and two sources should be a start to any national story. Your editors have no sense of journalism, history, fairness or impact to allow this type of pure garbage the type of air time allocated. How much did the network pull in from Soros to put this on the air??
It was a slick religious statement. Interesting that people want to believe. Why? Does belief in Climate Change fill-in some hole in their lives . . . Or does belief give meaning to an otherwise meaningless existence?
Thank you for your excellent commentary by M. Sanjayan on how climate change is here and now. I hope you will keep pursuing this crucial issue which is so important to America's national security and so neglected by our politicians. Don't let people be misguided by the well-funded campaign to introduce doubt about humanity's peril -- expose it for what it is. That's a major challenge for American journalism.
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Name: M. Sanjayan
Age: 45
Hometown: Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Currently lives in Missoula, Montana.
?http://www.afar.com/afar/m-sanjayan-natures-guardian
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I have been to Colombo and Sri Lanka.? The beach in front of Colombo is so strewn with garbage that one can hardly see the sand.? There are many other environmental issues in the whole of the country that M. Sanjayan should have stayed in the country of his birth to address instead of traveling the world explaining to the developed world that has clean air and water how they need to "clean up", unbelievable.
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On a lighter note, we did enjoy our stay and visit at Sigiriya and the view from the top of the strange red mountain, Kandy was OK but? Nuwara Eliya was more memorable and our stay at the St. Andrew's Hotel was very enjoyable.? It was different to be in the tropics and have hot water bottles placed in the bed by the staff at night and to also have an electric heater, that we used, in the rooms.?? The hotel looks over the third oldest golf course in the world, or so I was told.? Also M. Sanjayan? must be aware that the relatively small island of Sri Lanka has two distinct and different monsoon seasons, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with climate, in his way of thinking.? I wonder if our being continually stopped at police check points by police because of the Tamil Tiger situation had anything to do with why M. does not want to "clean up his own backyard", so to speak, and why he prefers to fly fish in Montana.
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"He is one of the most articulate people I know," said Daniel Pletscher, UM Wildlife Biology Program director. "He has the outstanding ability of explaining difficult scientific issues to the average layperson and scholar alike."
http://news.umt.edu/2012/05/051112cbsn.aspx
?
It is really a shame that in addition to being articulate,? M. Sanjayan can't present this in the realm of what is the TRUTH.
http://www.afar.com/afar/m-sanjayan-natures-guardian
It took all of two minutes to come up with the information below and from just a quick appraisal of it and from my 14 years of experience from living 140 miles north of the arctic circle above Kotzebue, AK.; what M. Sanjayan, Wildlife Program at the University of Montana claims above is not the truth and if you can't be trusted to tell the truth about something as simple and easy to verify as this, then when and regarding what will M. Sanjayan prove to be an honest and therefore, trustworthy scientist that one could feel comfortable quoting about anything?
The chart below certainly shows that the old Inupiat man's meat would have kept as well, if not better, in 2012 because during that year the mean temperature was -19.0 F. We don't take into consideration that this meat pit dug into the permafrost that the polar bears had probably raided to the point that the poor old Inupiat man felt that the General Electric freezer sitting on his porch is a lot better than fighting a polar bear to get to his meat.
I know from my experiences in the arctic that it can, on occasion, get very warm but it does not last for long, as the chart below shows.
Past Monthly Weather Data for Kaktovik, AK [Alaska] ("Barter Island (dew)") : JANUARY, 1947 - 2012
All months for this station: JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
http://weather-warehouse.com/WeatherHistory/PastWeatherData_BarterIslandDew_Kaktovik_AK_January.html
"The National Weather Service, the official weather reporting and recording agency of the federal government reported 100 degrees F (37.8 degrees C) at Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915, as the highest recorded temperature in the state. The lowest recorded temperature was minus 80 degrees F (-62.8 degrees C) at Prospect Creek, about 25 miles southeast of Bettles, on January 23, 1971."
http://www.alaskool.org/resources/regional/yukon_reg_profile/climate.htm
As Thomas Huxley famously stated: "The great tragedy in science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." and it seems that the fact is that there doesn't seem to be an "earth with a fever" now any more than there was in 1985 or for Alaska, where obviously Kaktovik is located. It is interesting to note the fever that the earth must have been experiencing was in 1915 at Fort Yukon. We sure would not want to talk about that, would we?
-Nicole, The Nature Conservancy
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
Svensmark, being a scientist, devised experiments of his own to test his theory and that demonstrates how science works. It is not about a group of self serving charlatans proclaiming that "the debate is over".
"Svensmark: Evidence continues to build that the Sun drives climate, not CO2"
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/svensmark-evidence-continues-to-build.html
Also look into these sites:
When Dr Kirkby first described the theory in 1998, he suggested cosmic rays "will probably be able to account for somewhere between a half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's temperature that we have seen in the last century."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/
When Dr Kirkby first described the theory in 1998, he suggested cosmic rays "will probably be able to account for somewhere between a half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's temperature that we have seen in the last century."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/
More sunspots, less cosmic rays, warmer earth. During the last 50 years or so, there have been record numbers of sunspots, low cosmic ray fluxes and somewhat higher temperatures. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html
"One Year of Clouds Covering the Earth
At any moment, about 60 percent of the earth is covered by clouds,(According to a NASA web page 70% of the earth is covered by clouds) which have a huge influence on the climate. An animated map showing a year of cloud cover suggests the outlines of continents because land and ocean features influence cloud patterns."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/01/science/earth/0501-clouds.html
Milton Clark, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Science
University of Illinois School of Public Health
http://signon.org/sign/we-are-the-clean-99?source=c.em.cp&r_by=487176
I guess the Dinosaur gas passing was more significant than this propaganda artist was led to believe.
Your alleged "correspondent" offered no solutions if there was a real problem since I guess the Soros folks forgot that part. I almost never watch your left wing communist junk network and just tripped on this channel surfing after a ball game. You are all in for a rude awakening in November and perhaps sooner as fewer and fewer of the population even bothers to tune in to your nonsense.
Who, what, when, why and where and two sources should be a start to any national story. Your editors have no sense of journalism, history, fairness or impact to allow this type of pure garbage the type of air time allocated. How much did the network pull in from Soros to put this on the air??
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