‘Climate’ Archives
“The Murdoch Press Are a Threat to Democracy,” Warns Australian Politician
A senior ALP faction leader branded Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited “a threat to democracy” today as the feud between the newspaper group and the Government intensified. Two months ago I reposted a warning by Australian scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against [...]
Conference conversations
Rasmus & Gavin The reason why scientists like going to conferences (despite them often being held in stuffy hotel basements) is because of the conversations. People can be found who know what they are talking about, and discussions can be focused clearly on what is important, rather than what is trivial. The atmosphere at these conferences is [...]
Obama Lays Groundwork For His Conservation Legacy
by Christy Goldfuss For many conservationists and lovers of the great outdoors, it was not obvious at first how President Barack Obama, with his urban Chicago roots, would make his mark on the vast expanse known as the public estate—national parks, national forests, monuments, and hundreds of millions of acres of lands that belong to all [...]
Biggest Jump Ever in Global Warming Pollution in 2010, Chinese CO2 Emissions Now Exceed U.S.’s By 50%
Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press reports — and editorializes — on the grim news: The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. Feeble indeed. You go, [...]
Keystone XL: Game over?
The impending Obama administration decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would tap into the Athabasca Oil Sands production of Canada, has given rise to a vigorous grassroots opposition movement, leading to the arrests so far of over a thousand activists. At the very least, the protests have increased awareness of the implications of [...]
Shale Shocked: “Highly Probable” Fracking Caused U.K. Earthquakes, and It’s Linked to Oklahoma Temblors
A previously unreported study out of the Oklahoma Geological Survey has found that hydraulic fracturing may have triggered a swarm of small earthquakes earlier this year in Oklahoma. The quakes, which struck on Jan. 18 in a rural area near Elmore City, peaked at magnitude 2.8 and caused no deaths or property damage. The study, currently being [...]
NBC’s Must-See TV: “Today No One Can Deny That Extreme Weather is Here to Stay” Thanks to Fossil-Fuel Driven Warming
Texas State Climatologist: “This is really the first time when climate change has manifested itself in a tangible way within the state of Texas.” Koch-funded Richard Muller: “The existence of global warming is pretty much beyond dispute now.” NBC’s Anne Thompson: Koch brothers are “oil billionaires and climate [...]
MJO Conversations
There is a (relatively) new blog from scientists involved in a big research program (DYNAMO) looking into the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). Called Madden-Julian Conversations, it is run by Adam Sobel and Daehyun Kim (Columbia), Zhiming Kuang (Harvard) and Eric Maloney (Colorado State). A schematic of the MJO from cmmap.org The MJO can be [...]
The Climate Data Guide
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has, in the last few months, developed an interesting and potentially very useful website The Climate Data Guide devoted to the ins and outs of obtaining and analyzing the various existing climatic data sets. The site describes itself as “…a focal point for expert-user guidance, [...]
Study Confirms Optimal Climate Strategy: Deploy, Deploy, Deploy, Research and Develop, Deploy, Deploy, Deploy
Back in May, a major study, California’s Energy Future — the View to 2050, was released by an independent state science and technology advisory panel. It had two central findings: California can achieve emissions roughly 60% below 1990 levels with technology we largely know about today if such technology is rapidly deployed at rates [...]
