Planet3.0 Blogs

On the occasion of the 50th reunion of the Class of 1968:I aspire to be "a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children" [Wendell Berry].During the more than 70 years…

The most reliable information about ice mass balance has been coming from the Gravity Recovery and Environment Experiment (GRACE) satellites for the last decade. But that pair of satellites was reaching the end of its useful life, and scientists have…

    Disruptive technology. Practice using this phrase in a sentence. Just trust me on this. A Perennial climate denier distortion is to claim that Electric vehicles do not run cleaner, because they are charged from a dirty grid (which…

My wife says I need to back away from obsessive concerns about climate change. Think I’ll take up knitting. EllieHighwood: Q. What do you get when you cross crochet and climate science? A. A lot of attention on Twitter. At…

Last summer, the United states was pummeled with three severe hurricanes in rapid succession. It was a truly awesome display of the power of weather and the country is still reeling from the effects. In the climate community, there has been…

It’s not likely that sea level rise will drown you personally. The sea is creeping up on us slowly, and yet — all too soon — it has already flooded streets even on sunny days, seeped into groundwater making it…

Science literate readers respond to Wall Street Journal Op Ed that questioned first order physics of thermal expansion. Briefly, former scientist, tobacco apologist, and dotard Fred Singer questioned whether sea level was rising due to a warming planet. Must be…

I was having another discussion on Twitter with Jean Goodwin, who posted the following quote. It’s attributed to Mark Largent and may have been delivered at a AAAS meeting. I’m interested in what other people think of this. I don’t…

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Benjamin Cook Dr Benjamin Cook is a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Few areas of the world are completely immune to droughts and their often-devastating impacts on…

Michigan Radio: General Motors says a new wind farm being constructed in Ohio brings it one step closer to running all its facilities worldwide on 100% renewable energy. The 100 megawatt wind farm in northwest Ohio was grandfathered in, before…

Hurricane Season starting soon, while many areas will still be recovering from last year’s  record destruction.  What’s the forecast? Peter Jacobs, above,  is a PhD student and researcher at George Mason University Department of Environmental Science and Policy, and with…

The reasons for the fall of the Western Roman Empire have remained a mystery for modern historians, just as for the Romans themselves. Yet, recent data from the Greenland ice core provide us with new data on collapse of the…

a 55 knot phase of my recent @PromiceGL #Q18 Greenland 80 km ski-based snow survey. Yes, a #sufferfest but rewarding with 12 cores over 700 m vertical range on the #QTransect https://t.co/HNEFo5zZFJ pic.twitter.com/4mmpEZbgMr — Jason Box (@climate_ice) May 21, 2018…

Last week, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held yet another climate science hearing similar to those from April 2017, February 2017, January 2016, May 2015, June 2014, December 2013, and so on. It seems as though disputing established climate science is House Republicans’ favorite…

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Guardian: Global warming is on track to cause a major wipeout of insects, compounding already severe losses, according to a new analysis. Insects are vital to most ecosystems and a widespread collapse would cause extremely far-reaching disruption to life on…

Turns out Millenials give a damn about their planet and their children. Sorry, angry old people. CNBC: A new survey from global auditing and consulting firm Deloitte suggests the gap between environmental concern and consumer action may be shrinking. The…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Urgent Climate Action Required to Protect Tens of Thousands of Species Worldwide, New Research Shows Limiting global warming to 2 degrees…

Readers will know that the Trump administration was determined to cancel an important NASA program which monitors global carbon fluxes. Looks like another example of good science being tougher to kill than climate deniers (and Vladimir Putin) would like. Earther:…

Wind energy is coming to the midwest, and the heart of Michigan in a big and successful way. No surprise, a very well organized fossil fuel funded push-back is active across the state, and throughout the heartland. They’ve been operating…

Climate science is built on first order physics, and reliable observations of past climate – not models. The adage “Every model is wrong, but some models are useful” applies, but nevertheless, looking back at the earliest attempts at modeling the…

Her name is Rachel Price.…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change Temperature, precipitation, wind Comparing daily temperature averaging methods: the role of surface and atmosphere variables in determining spatial and seasonal variability Dynamical analysis of extreme precipitation in…

So much stupidity on display at the Wall Street Journal, and in congress, on sea level rise. Fortunately, there is help. Climate Feedback: This commentary published by The Wall Street Journal, written by Fred Singer, claims that warming (and therefore…

A post by Greg HorrallATTENTION: SOIL AGRICULTURE INCLUDING FORESTRY, AS NOW PRACTICED, IS DEAD OR OBSOLETE...Dead if we keep doing it with our current dependency on mined finite-supply mineral fertilizers and obsolete if we hope to maintain even the current…

I’m sometimes puzzled by GWPF (the “Global Warming Policy Foundation”). Do they think their readers are gullible idiots, or is the GWPF itself that stupid? Case in point: One of their latest makes a big deal about the fact that…

There’s a bizarre article in the Wall Street Journal by Fred Singer called, The Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change. It’s actually so bonkers that it’s quite hard to know where to start. I’ll give it go,…

Landsat images from Nov. 17 2017 and Feb. 10 2018 indicate a rise in the snowline, purple dots, on glaciers east of Mount Everest, indicating ablation even in winter from the terminus to the snowline. Rongbuk Glacier=R, East Rongbuk Glacier=ER…

File this alongside “There is no gravity, the Earth sucks.” One more reason to support Dark Snow Project. Fred Singer in Wall Street Journal: Of all known and imagined consequences of climate change, many people fear sea-level rise most. But…

We know that creating new lakes with dams is not a good idea climate wise, as emissions of methane are thought to be significant. Turns out that under current conditions, existing lakes can become significant sources as well – another…