Planet3.0 Blogs

I've been dumbfounded by the willingness/denialism of Republicans and of parties in other democracies to be the manipulated tools of the hostile Russian government. Apparently, rabid nationalism can be turned on and off as circumstances warrant.OTOH, until recently I've been…

Huh. I see the video above has gotten 125k views while I wasn’t looking. Climate blogger Collin Maessen and I interviewed Richard Muller in 2014 at the American Geophysical Union. Muller, a one-time darling of denierville, got funding from, among…

Arguing that something happening one way in the past means it can only happen that way is an illogical appeal to history. Continue reading →…

If you saw John Oliver’s satirical piece on the joys of coal and coal mining, (posted here) – that’s earned him a legal threat from the coal baron he made fun of. Coal barons don’t like being made fun of.Filed…

Trump announces magical wall will be solar powered. I’m told, that as communicators, we’re not supposed to make jokes about the stupidity of Trump voters, – because it makes them sad. But c’mon, people. Fox and Friends are on board,…

We’ll adapt. Just don’t plan on travel, don’t burn yourself with the cold water from your tap, and don’t walk your dog – you might kill it. Pacific Standard: What’s an extreme heat wave like in a place that’s accustomed…

One thing that history shows is a 100 percent renewable and limitless heat source – the fight between those who think we can go to an all-sun-wind-water powered world, and those who think you can’t go carbon-free without nuclear energy.…

With terms such as “post-truth” and “fake news” becoming increasingly prominent in the media and public discourse, the ability to effectively correct inaccurate information has never been more pertinent. Unfortunately, the task of correcting misinformation is far from trivial. In…

This is interesting. Alternet:: Electronic artist Moby’s new animated music video sends a clear message about his feelings on capitalism, greed, and President Donald Trump — and the latter’s supporters aren’t having it. Once Trump supporters caught wind of Moby…

The legend of the city of Ys has that it was swallowed by the sea. Many modern islands risk to suffer the same fate as the result of Global Warming (Image source). But their inhabitants tend to deny that, and…

America’s top universities expend considerable efforts to lead in the rankings, but last week they fell short—missing a critical opportunity to show moral leadership on climate change. If top schools want to lead on climate action, they should join the “We…

Scientists measure the Earth's temperature three ways - stationary surface thermometers, satellite-based microwave detectors, and balloon-carried thermometers. Continue reading →…

Esset aliquod inbecillitatis nostrae solacium rerumque nostrarum si tam tarde perirent cuncta quam fiunt: nunc incrementa lente exeunt, festinatur in damnum.”  Lucius Anneaus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE)In my book "The Seneca Effect", the first chapter is titled "Collapse is not…

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In a cabinet full of fawning, shamelessly pandering, dim bulbs, Rick Perry, well, shines. It would appear that 97 percent of below-average ex-cheerleader animal husbandry majors do not believe in human caused climate change.  That’s good enough for me. By…

It’s been an axiom of climate science that “we can’t attribute a specific weather event to climate change”. Now, at least in relation to certain kinds of events, that’s changing – as the warming signal emerges ever more clearly from…

I thought I should let regular readers know that I’m still here, still alive, and that posts will be back before very long. It’s been crazy lately, and I’m involved in two new projects. One is private, the other is…

Scientific conclusions derive from an understanding of basic laws supported by laboratory experiments, observations of nature, and mathematical and computer modeling. Like all human beings, scientists make mistakes, but the scientific process is designed to find and correct them. This…

Euan Mearns, who runs a blog called Energy Matters, had a post in 2014 about The Vostok ice core: Temperature CO2 and CH4. This post has apparently had 8000 reads, is probably one of the most read texts on the…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.  Editor's Pick Warm Waters in West Antarctica  A recent paper in Reviews of Geophysics describes the atmospheric and oceanic processes that are causing ice loss…

Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raworth (Chelsea Green, 2017) is an interesting book that goes in the right direction in the sense that it promotes a circular economy, But it leaves you with the impression that it missed that extra step…

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There’s a well organized and well funded anti-wind movement in the US, that above all, serves the needs of the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry – but in the process corrodes economic opportunities in rural areas, which in…

While the Trump Train trundles back  into the nineteenth century, a lot of cities and states in the US are making their own alliances with countries, cities and provinces around the world to insure that Paris Climate goals are met.…

Believe it. They are better at messaging than we are. It’s not that they go for the gut. Think a few inches lower. Time: Let’s talk about President Donald Trump’s “Pittsburgh not Paris” slogan. It may seem like an ill-conceived…

https://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/150362283819 Peddling is arguably the most favorite way for contrarians to lob factoids behind enemy lines. Once a door opens, peddlers block it with their foot and dispatch their sale pitches. Peddled talking points seldom matter to the topic at…

Here's a blog post I just read on Andreas Muenchow's Icy Seas blog: Is Petermann Gletscher Breaking Apart this Summer? I am disturbed by new ocean data from Greenland every morning before breakfast these days. In 2015 we built a station…

Per one White House official: “Dear God, Keep him away from Twitter.” Meanwhile, President still has staunch supporters. Filed under: Crock of the Week…

Former NASA astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly sat down with CNN’s Rachel Crane at the Breakthrough Awards to discuss the future of scientific research under a Trump administration.  Noting that “97 percent of scientists” agree on climate change, the Kellys…

Treasures of underwater cities resurrect the ‘Myth of Osiris’. The 300 pieces found in the Mediterranean correspond to cities submerged in the eighteenth century. Photo:EFE An exhibition of the Rietberg Museum resurrects through three hundred objects extracted from the Mediterranean…