‘Climate’ Archives
The Tennessee deluge of 2010: Nashville’s ‘Katrina’ and the dawn of the superflood
One of the epic extreme weather events in U.S. recorded history devastated one of America’s great cities this month. But the status quo media has barely told the story of Nashville’s Katrina (let alone its link to human-caused climate change). Since the great Tennessee deluge of 2010 foreshadows the shape of things to come for many [...]
Ocean heat content increases update
There is a new paper in Nature this week on recent trends in ocean heat content from a large group of oceanographers led by John Lyman at PMEL. Their target is the uncertainty surrounding the various efforts to create a homogenised ocean heat content data set that deals appropriately with the various instrument changes and coverage biases that [...]
Arctic double stunner: Sea ice extent is now below 2007 levels, while volume hit record low for March – Summer poised to set new record
While the anti-science crowd scours the globe desperately looking for any indication of their imaginary cooling, reality has intruded again. Because they and the media — and even some scientists who don’t follow the subject closely — tend to take a two-dimensional view of the Arctic, they along with much of the public have been fooled [...]
U.S. National Academy of Sciences labels as “settled facts” that “the Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities” – New report confirms failure to act poses “significant risks”
A strong, credible body of scientific evidence shows that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems…. Some scientific conclusions or theories have been so thoroughly examined and tested, and supported by so many independent observations and [...]
NASA: Easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — in temperature record – Plus a new record 12-month global temperature, as predicted
It was the hottest April on record in the NASA dataset. More significantly, following fast on the heels of the hottest March and hottest Jan-Feb-March on record, it’s also the hottest Jan-Feb-March-April on record . The record temperatures we’re seeing now are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum [...]
Worst news article ever published on global warming?
I’ve been bombarded with emails from folks stunned by a shamefully bad Boston Globe article by Beth Daley, “A cooling trend.” It certainly qualifies as one of the worst news articles ever published on global warming. But is it the worst piece ever? I’d love your thoughts. The competition for that title is, [...]
Peak oil production coming sooner than expected – Media, public, governments unprepared for the End of the World (As We Know It)
Source: Sweetnam, DOE, April 2009 The BP oil disaster reminds us once again of the many large costs of oil use not included in its price. But because conservatives have blocked or rolled back all serious efforts to move us off of oil in the last three decades, peak oil will soon change that (see Deutsche Bank: Oil to hit $175 a barrel by 2016 [...]
What we can learn from studying the last millennium (or so)
With all of the emphasis that is often placed on hemispheric or global mean temperature trends during the past millennium, and the context they provide for interpreting modern warming trends, one thing is often lost in the discussion: space matters as much as time. Indeed, it is likely that the regional patterns of past climate changes, rather [...]
GOP blocks the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act – Federal laws point to criminal charges in BP disaster; Transocean seeks to limit its liability using 1851 law, Palin disses move in tweet
The WSJ just reported “an effort by a few Senate Democrats to raise the cap on damage claims that BP PLC must pay for a Gulf of Mexico oil spill was blocked Thursday after Republicans said the plan wouldn’t work. This CAP repost explains the issue and what’s at stake. JR UPDATE: Mclatchy reports “Federal [...]
American Power Act Empowers Americans – An Examination of Benefits to Americans in the Clean Energy Bill
The Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act jump-starts efforts to adopt comprehensive clean energy and climate polices that would cut oil use, increase security, reduce pollution, and create jobs. Daniel J. Weiss, CAP’s Director of Climate Strategy, details the benefits the bill would provide to everyday Americans in this repost. Sens. [...]
