‘Climate’ Archives
“Vision Prize”, an online poll of scientists about climate risk
A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is trying to get a better understanding of the views of earth scientists regarding various climate change topics. They have set up an ongoing poll to do this, called Vision Prize. It’s a short (10 question) poll, covering topics like the rate of CO2 increase, predicted future temperatures, [...]
Arctic Temperatures Continue Rapid Rise as 2011 Breaks Record Set in 2010
Record Ice Loss and Tundra Melt Amplify Warming Feedbacks by Nick Sundt, reposted from the World Wildlife Fund NASA just (19 January 2012) released data showing that last year temperatures in the Arctic rose beyond the record established in 2010 — setting a new record for 2011. News of the record Arctic temperatures follows a series of [...]
The Alarming Outlook for Urban Water Scarcity
By 2020, California will face a shortfall of fresh water as great as the amount that all of its cities and towns together are consuming today by Kevin Benfield, cross-posted from NRDC’s Switchboard When you look at the official US drought monitor map, you immediately see that many American cities may be in the wrong places for long-term [...]
Wired Pulls a Charlie Sheen on Clean Energy: Experts Easily Debunk Absurd Hit-Job on Solar and Wind Power
In 2011, global investment in renewable energy surpassed fossil fuels for the first time. And the U.S. surged back into the lead in clean investment ahead of China by about $8 billion. So what, other than bad journalism, explains this nonsensical headline and image from the top tech magazine Wired? Actually, it is just bad journalism, pure [...]
Humans Are by Far the Dominant Cause of Global Warming: A Comprehensive Review of the Science
Skeptical Science reviews the scientific literature, which shows humans are the dominant cause of global warming. by Dana Nuccitelli At Skeptical Science, we have several recent studies which have used a number of diverse approaches to tease out the contributions of various natural and human effects to global warming. Here we will review the [...]
Keystone Surprise: Greens Stronger GOP Dumber Than Predicted
Credo Action via Flickr by David Roberts, reposted from Grist In October 2011, National Journal surveyed energy experts about whether Obama was likely to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar-sands oil through the U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico. Ninety-one percent of the “energy and environment insiders” believed he [...]
There is “No Evidence” that Wind Turbine Syndrome Exists, Concludes Expert Panel
by Zachary Rybarczyk and Stephen Lacey If we want wind to continue growing, more turbines will need to be placed in our communities and close to our backyards. And that will inevitably cause more social friction. Wind supporters cannot discount concerns from local residents about noise and visual impact. With proper communication between [...]
Situation Normal, All Fracked Up: Obama Embraces Fracking
by RL Miller, cross posted from Daily Kos Last week, the Obama administration gave what may be its first formal statement favoring hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of natural gas in a report, Investing in America (pdf). Until now, the Environmental Protection Agency has, generally, been moving slowly on the issue, with initial study results [...]
Open Climate 101 Online
Almost 3000 non-science major undergraduates at the University of Chicago have taken PHSC13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, since Ray Pierrehumbert and I (David Archer) first developed it back in 1995. Since the publication of the textbook for the class in 2005 (and a much-cleaned-up 2nd edition now shipping), enrollment has gone [...]
Bombshell and Dud: Gerson Says Burning Fossil Fuels “Is Not a Moral Good” But Repeats Myth Gore Polarized Climate Debate
Polarization on Climate Jumped in 2009 — Long After Gore’s 2006 Movie Percent of Americans Who Believe the Effects of Global Warming Have Already Begun to Happen, by Political Ideology, from McRight and Dunlap Conservative columnist Michael Gerson broke sharply from right-wing orthodoxy today when he ended an op-ed on climate change with [...]
