Hat tip to D. R. Tucker. Above, NBC finally shows its possible to mention climate change when talking about the effects of climate change. USAToday: The costs of fighting wildfires are rising dramatically, and could keep climbing in the face… [more]
Nuclear promoters get real touchy when you talk about the connections between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Let’s assume that the US has the most professional stewardship of these deadly devices. I am not reassured.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
Good news from Canada for a change. PV Tech: The first grid-connected energy storage facility in Canada, in the country’s leading solar province, Ontario, is now operational. The 2MW flywheel storage facility will provide regulation service to Ontario’s Independent Electricity… [more]
In my post at The Daily Blog today — Broken English, broken government, broken climate — I take a look Bill English’s unguarded comments on climate change. Apparently, it’s a non-issue. As you might expect, I am somewhat less than… [more]
Noah Smith is having fun with automatic priors, pointing out that the reasonable person’s prior on personal immortality is that you got it because you ain’t dead yet.Consider Proposition H: “God is watching out for me, and has a special… [more]
Secretary Kerry hosted a remarkable conference in June called simply Our Ocean. It enlisted international policy makers, scientists, and the private sector to take action to ensure a healthy ocean for the future. The conference laid out the science, impacts, and… [more]
“Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right—except that the change is too small to be detected except by instruments and statistics in the hands of professional meteorologists. Weather men have no doubt that… [more]
Have to bite the bullet here and discuss my guesses for the September 2014 Arctic sea ice extent average. The thing which has made them so difficult is that they’re so different from each other. Now, one method I’ve retired. … [more]
Rebecca Smith of the Wall Street Journal has consistently been delivering the unwelcome news for electric utilities about changing times, and this morning she’s done it again. I won’t often recommend a Murdoch paper as a resource, but do read… [more]
The British House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has issued its report on the AR5 WG I. While the report strongly supports the IPCC (see below), there is opposition within the Commons and the Murdochsphere. An important issue… [more]
This article by Jim Salinger, University of Auckland; Blair Fitzharris, University of Otago, and Trevor Chinn, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, was first published at The Conversation. The photo at left shows the calving face of the Tasman… [more]
The Great War started one hundred years ago, on July 28, 1914. It was later known as the first world war, but the term “Great War” better conveys the enormity of something that had never happened before in human history.… [more]
Katherine Monroe:Below are the full instructions on how to build exactly what I built. There is so much that could be done to improve the design. I know it is not anywhere close to perfect. The materials I used were… [more]
Posts will be thinning out in coming days. I’ll be flying tomorrow to meet Dr. Jason Box, Dark Snow Project Chief Scientist, in Copenhagen. From there, we’ll hop to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, and up to the ice sheet for the following… [more]
Science journalist Gaia Vince left her desk at Nature and spent two years visiting places around the world, some of them very isolated, where people were grappling with the conditions of what is sometimes described as a new epoch, the… [more]
Nigel Lawson is the chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation; a political group that regularly releases selective scientific reports about climate change. The organization consistently tries to argue that concerns about global warming – concerns that are based on… [more]
As Eli points out, California has a water crisis, and much of the rest of the country needs to be much more water efficient. Water efficiency is the obvious place to start but then the next-step question comes up.While plenty… [more]
Twitter conversations by scientists, beginning with one of Pythagoras’ tweets. Be sure to read the ones from Jonas Salk.… [more]
SkS Highlights
Dana’s Climate models accurately predicted global warming when reflecting natural ocean cycles examined a new paper by James Risbey et al that takes a clever approach to evaluating how accurate climate model temperature predictions have been while getting around the noise caused by… [more]
Fourpeaked Glacier drains east from the volcano of the same name in the Katmai region of southern Alaksa. The Park Service in a report (Giffen et al 2008) noted that the glacier retreated 3.4 km across a broad proglacial lake… [more]
During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Central to these updates are the daily Cryosphere Today sea ice area (SIA) and IJIS sea ice extent (SIE) numbers, which… [more]
This is another in a series of portals – lists of links designed to make datasets more easily accessed. I’m planning a master list to put up as a permanent page.The Bureau of Meteorology has an extensive network of Australian… [more]
I think this video it is worth looking and listening at even if you don’t understand Italian. It is the story of a lake which has naturally emerged in the middle of a (probably) illegal housing development in Rome. The… [more]
Maher holds up the new National Review cover, which explains it all. Reminds me of recent remarks by Jeb Bush that scientists and those that believe in what science says, are “sanctimonious”. (video link hat tip to D.R. Tucker)… [more]
Our experience of current warmth can override our scientific knowledge in driving beliefs about climate change, which is part of the reason we struggle to take the resulting risks seriously, underlines Columbia University’s Elke Weber.… [more]
14 concepts that will be obsolete after catastrophic climate change
Abrupt climate shifts in the past offer warning for future
Changing human behavior is major factor in selling cleaner cars, curbing congestion
China’s energy plans will worsen climate change, Greenpeace… [more]
Brewster McCracken and the Amazing Pecan Street Project sounds like a great name for a movie, – with a marvelous electric flying vehicle, maybe. Brewster McCracken is CEO of the Pecan Street Project – an Austin, Texas based research outfit… [more]
My brother lives in the Methow Valley of Washington, where fires have raged in recent weeks. Despite power outages, he was able, with a neighbor, to rig pumps and keep a water sprayer on his ranch, while digging firebreaks –… [more]
Attack of the Chicago climate change maggots
Climate change already having profound impacts on lakes in Europe
Error discovered in Antarctic sea-ice record
EU agrees to improve energy efficiency 30% by 2030
G20 should facilitate international cooperation on climate change… [more]
The Heartland Institute, famous for misinforming on the Health effects of cigarettes, and the bogus science of climate denial, now promotes the views of the creationist Discovery Institute, in attacking Science education as “propaganda”. Not a surprise to me, as,… [more]
