Planet3.0 Blogs

Cerro Tronador glaciers in Landsat images from 1985, 1998 and 2018.  A=Alerce, CO=Castana Overo, VN=Ventisquero Negro.  Red arrows mark the 1985 glacier terminus locations, yellow arrows the 2018 terminus location of VN, pink arrow the location of the 2009 dam…

Movie got it wrong. It’s not women going infertile, it’s males that could be sterilized. Washington Post: Heat doesn’t just kill. It is also diminishes the vitality of sperm, curtailing the capacity to reproduce, as scientists have documented. “Heatwaves reduce…

Quartz: “We need more environmental hardliners in Congress,” she told In These Times magazine earlier this week. “We need a Marshall Plan for renewable energy in the United States. The idea that the Democratic Party needs to be moderate is…

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NASA: An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland. The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland…

“Christian” camp for budding science deniers.  “Lord” Monckton gets my vote for Creepiest Counselor ever. This is child abuse. One corrective is the twitter hash tag #exvangelicals, which documents the horrific memories of those who have escaped the spiritual gulag…

Researching a new piece on energy storage, and came across this 10 year old video from Vermont Public Broadcasting. Very much on the money describing the roll out of EVs that we see today, and the potential for grid storage…

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Description: As three major fires blaze in California, we consider some of their causes, both human and meteorological. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien has been filming a NOVA documentary on megafires and witnessed the Camp Fire not long after it began.…

In which @AxlRose trolls @realDonaldTrump over his assault on our environment and our psyches#IThoughtIdSeenItAll https://t.co/WgJyW7l0w7— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) November 12, 2018 White House confirms Trump will not visit Arlington cemetery on Veteran’s Day as rain is expected.What is your…

I’ve been doing some reading to try and better understand the debate between decoupling and degrowth. I should acknowledge upfront that I haven’t really grasped the complexities of these issues, so this post will probably be rather confused and rambling.…

Above, former chair of the House “Science” Committee, Lamar Smith, in a classic House floor speech, declares that President Trump is the “only source of unvarnished truth.” Smith retired, giving up his seat this year, and was replaced by a…

Mediaite: On Sunday, CNN meteorologist Tom Sater offered a lengthy and brutal fact check of President Donald Trump‘s claim that forest mismanagement was to blame for the deadly, destructive fires in California. While in Paris over the weekend, with reports…

 I know that I have crammed together too many ideas here: Tolstoy, St. Francis, critical phenomena, thermodynamics, and more,  - it is contrary to the rules of blog posts. But the centennial of the end of the Great War gave…

The LA Times reports that people in California, and especially firefighters, are angry at Donald Trump’s stunning display of both stupidity and insensitivity in response to the deadly fires raging through their state. While a quarter of a million people…

Sandhill Crane at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary…

PBS Newshour from August has perspective from Michael Mann and others. San Francisco Chronicle: Much of the heat that’s gripped California and hastened the spread of deadly wildfires recently is due to a strange but familiar shift in the jet…

When Jennifer Francis and others advanced the idea that arctic ice losses could be impacting extreme weather patterns in the temperate zone, it was considered cutting edge, or even fringe science. 7 years later, a steady drumbeat of observations and…

I wasn't thrilled reading the title and intro to Yglesias' article, "House Democrats must resist Trump’s infrastructure trap":President Donald Trump’s infrastructure trap is back, and for the new House Democratic majority to succeed, they need to escape it.It’s forgotten now,…

Pretty impressive breakdown of environmental impacts from EV vs ICE vehicles. Advertisements…

Huge impact of increasing coastal flooding will be the societal costs as thousands, then millions of residents are eventually forced to move as their homes and businesses become untenable due to repeated inundation. Taxpayers will be on the hook for…

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A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts  Mankind Altered Disease Risk from Climate Change (A special issue in EcoHealth) Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types…

First snow in Michigan this winter, and I was lucky enough to be driving from Traverse City south to home. Then I found the video above in my mailbox. Protectourwinters.org Advertisements…

More of my old friend keeping up appearances. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary Inverted Preening…

Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center: October has seen a continuation of the trend that…

One hundred years after the end of the war that was to end all wars, the First World War, we still don't understand what wars are, why we fight wars, why we can't stop fighting them. We are surrounded, it…

Reru Glacier in 1998 and 2018 Landsat images.  The red arrow indicates the 1998 terminus location, the pink arrow a recent landslide, Point 1 and 2 are tributaries that are losing connection with the main glacier and purple dots are…

Aljazeera: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has launched a project to build the first nuclear research reactor in the kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, launched seven strategic projects in renewable energy,…