Planet3.0 Blogs

Paul Krugman in the New York Times (from email – link when available): It’s hard to feel any sympathy for Trish Regan, the Fox News host who was fired after a rant in which she called the coronavirus “yet another…

Uncanny timing on this. The same day the President switched to a new, graver tone on COVID-19.…

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Seems appropriate, and this is a great vocal version I’ve not heard before.…

I’ve, in the past, suggested that climate scientists could end up being criticised whatever happens. If the impact of climate change ends up being less severe than it could have been, climate scientists will probably be criticised for being alarmists.…

(Einar Kvaran)Who knew antifa were practicing good public health? Bandanas are better-than-nothing substitutes for masks.So, Vox.com did not cover itself with glory on coronavirus during the month of February. On Feb. 13 it mocked Silicon Valley efforts at physical distancing…

For those that believe windmills cause cancer, and up until last week, were convinced that Corona virus was a hoax, it’s a great moment to double up on health scams, and maybe even make some quick cash? Local Anti-Wind activist…

EnergyWire: New York’s historic decision to require workers to live at facilities operating the state’s power grid during the novel coronavirus pandemic may be a test case for the rest of the nation. For the first time, the grid operator…

Philip Anderson has died at the age of 96. Worshiped (not too strong a word) by physicist of the condensed matter tribe, Anderson was also the father of Susan Anderson, an old (and missed) friend of Rabett Run to whom Eli…

As a Goddess, Gaia may not be all-powerful, but She does what She can. Image from Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. One of the good things about the current epidemic is what it is teaching us. Apart from a welcome slap to…

San Lorenzo Sur Glacier in Landsat images from 1986 and 2020.  Yellow arrow is the 2020 terminus location, red arrow the 1986 terminus location, purple dots indicate the snowline. Point A indicates a location at 1400 m where debris cover…

H/T David Appell…

Richard did it again and forgot to say “oops”: It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses,…

I hypothesize that the surface temperature will increase as a result of COVID19's shutdown of industry and transportation due to the reduction of aerosols.…

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis: “The fracking sector as a whole has been struggling mightily throughout the decade to register positive free cash flow but for those based in Appalachia, the numbers have been even more dismal,” said…

Remaining Koch brother, even with one foot in the grave, still reaching out to keep Americans from following best science and health practice to socially distance in what is clearly a global crisis. They are truly merchants of Death. Intellectualist:…

Andy Dessler took some of his social distancing time to critique a recent slide set by climate denier Roy Spencer. Worth your time, and if you have not seen Andy and others tear into Spencer, and his partner John Christy’s,…

Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan, who hasn’t released an original song since 2012’s Tempest,unexpectedly dropped a previously unheard, nearly 17-minute-long new track, “Murder Most Foul,” late Thursday night. Dylan didn’t say exactly when the song was recorded, but his delicate vocal…

Kentucky GOP representative Thomas Massie is in the news, but sharp eyed readers of this blog probably remember him from this exchange above with Secretary of State John Kerry, about climate change. He’s now one of the most hated members…

------------------  This time, it is for real!  --------------------Guest post by Herbert KrillMarch 23, 2020These are interesting times for collapsologists and for anyone interested in collapse. For many years, we all studied the past, historic collapses like the Fall of Ancient…

No-so-clean coal strikes again. NBC 12 – Richmond: Coal mining continues in Southwest Virginia even as workplace constraints prevent miners from following many of the social distancing practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Monday,…

Calluqueo Glacier in Landsat images from 1986 and 2020.  Yellow arrow is the 2020 terminus location, red arrow the 1986 terminus location, purple dots indicate the snowline. Point A-D indicate bedrock areas that have expanded with glacier thinning. Calluqueo Glacier…

Yesterday, a group in Oxford released a paper that implied that a signifcant fraction of those in the UK may already have been infected. This was quickly picked up by numerous media outlets who highlighted that coronavirus could already have…

I’ve been following research on the North Atlantic Current (Scientists call it the Atlantic Overturning Meriodonal Circulation – AMOC) for some years. New research underlining the climate connection to a slowing of that current has now been published. Nature Communications:…

East Antarctica, until a decade or so ago, was considered so cold and remote that the effects of warming would not be seen for some time, perhaps centuries in the future. That was then. Bloomberg: An Antarctic glacier that contains…

Bloomberg: With every passing week, the pandemic-led economic crisis gets deeper and the interventions to cushion the blow get bigger. Such upheavals in world economies are rare. With governments announcing hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus packages, many see…

I hope everyone is keeping well and listening to all the advice which, in the UK, is basically to stay at home and to only go outside for food, some exercise, or to go to work (where this cannot be…

I don’t think I have to explain the carbon bubble to any readers here. There is more carbon in the ground than we can burn.At some point the world wakes up to climate change, and we stop burning it.Or, something…

Jennifer Rubin in the Washingon Post: A worldwide crisis that scientists warned was coming threatens the lives of people in every economic, social, racial and partisan segment of the population. The economic impact alone will devastate families for years to…

The coronavirus pandemics: a consequence of the human impact on the ecosystemThe Italian situation: on the left, pollution levels of microparticulate. On the right, the diffusion of the Coronavirus pandemic. Image from the article by Setti et al. Below, I report…