‘Climate’ Archives
With Blow-Out March Heat Wave, Meteorologist Masters Says ‘This Is Not The Atmosphere I Grew Up With’
2012 Heat Records Demolish Cold Records 14-to-1 It has been a summer to remember. In winter. Like a baseball player on steroids, our climate system is breaking records at an unnatural pace. As Weather Channel meteorologist Stu Ostro says of the current heat wave: This remarkable warmth is associated with a bulging ridge of high pressure aloft [...]
March 17 News: New Keystone XL Route Could Still Threaten Ogallala Aquifer
Map used to define Nebraska Sandhills doesn’t include nearby areas also vulnerable to contamination A depth-to-water map of eastern Nebraska, with the original Keystone XL route in orange. Areas in light blue have a high water table (depth to water 0 to 50 feet) and are more vulnerable to an oil spill. Areas in dark blue have a depth to [...]
Inhofe’s Stunning Admission To Maddow on Global Warming: ‘I Thought It Must Be True Until I Found Out What It Cost”
Senate’s top denier pushes myth enviros far outspent industry in climate fight Did you see the big smack down last night between MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)? The dean of disinformation mostly just repeated his well-worn falseshoods about global warming, which Maddow shot down. But there was one remarkable [...]
Growing Grassroots Political Support for a Price on Carbon
by Erica Flock In July 2011, the Brisbane Times reported that Australia’s carbon price was dead in the water. Polling revealed that support for the legislation was low and that Prime Minister Julia Gillard had done a poor job explaining the bill. Down in the trenches, mud was flying: a politician compared a progressive activist organization [...]
Report: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline More Of An Economic Liability Than Benefit
by Danielle Droitsch, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard A new report from the Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute shows how the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is an economic liability with the potential to cause significant job losses from a major tar sands spill. Because tar sands oil is more corrosive and toxic than [...]
Sherwood Rowland, CFCs, ozone depletion and the public role of scientists
Many of you will have read the obituaries of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sherwood Rowland (Nature, BBC) who sadly died over the weekend. DotEarth has a good collection of links to papers, videos and tributes. We have sometimes commented on the connections between the issue of CFC-driven ozone depletion and anthropogenic global warming. In [...]
New Lows In The War On Science — But This Time Science Wins One
by Tina Swanson, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard Imagine you’re sick and you go to the hospital seeking diagnosis and treatment from a doctor. After taking your history, giving you a thorough examination and doing a huge number of expensive tests, your doctor determines that you are being sickened by pollution from an industrial [...]
March 13 News: Record Spring Temperatures Spread Throughout Eastern U.S.
Other stories below: Allergy season comes early this year because of the unusually mild winter, Why gas prices aren’t likely to decide the 2012 election Climate Central: Record Warm Week Ahead East of the Rockies The warm winter season is giving way to an even warmer early spring, with record temps spreading throughout the U.S. east [...]
WeatherBELL Chief Forecaster Joe Bastardi Denies Basic Physics: ‘CO2 Cannot Cause Global Warming’
UPDATE: Bastardi doubles down on his anti-science BS in the comments — but then why won’t he put his money where his mouth is? That suggests this is just disinformation he doesn’t believe — see the bets I offered here (which he rejected). by Jocelyn Fong, reposted from Media Matters “Completely wrong.” [...]
The Lorax Speaks For The Trees — Get Over It Conservatives
Take your kids to see The Lorax. I took my 5-year-old daughter and she loved it. Despite the best efforts of Fox News to smear the movie, The Lorax is doing very well at the box office — $70 million opening weekend (better than other Dr. Seuss movies) and “strong midweek numbers” — for a reason. It’s [...]
