Planet3.0 Blogs

You may have heard that Larry Fink, Manager of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, sent a letter to clients this week underlining the need to move investments into sustainable technologies, and soon.“In the near future”, he wrote, “and sooner…

Click on the image above to enlarge. Comparison of Yale’s “6 Americas” polling on climate concerns from 2016 and today. Yale Program on Climate Communication: Nearly six in ten (58%) Americans are now either “Alarmed” or “Concerned” about global warming.…

Larger and larger numbers of Americans are Concerned or Alarmed about climate change. (see post on this page)May the Republican Party burn in hell for poisoning the dialogue on climate for the last 30 years, and now preparing to pretend…

Kevin Pluck is a twitter treasure.…

December 2019 GISS data came out recently, and hot: 1.1C over baseline. 2019 is the second hottest year on record after 2016, and if temps from 2019's final quarter carry over in 2020, then this year will once again be…

Those refugees on the beach are rich white folks, folks. I spoke to University of Melbourne scientist Linden Ashcroft PhD for an overview. This event seems historic to me, and I suspect I will have several more vids on this.…

Significant new research from Lijing Cheng and Kevin Trenberth.Your intrepid reporter, of course, spoke to the scientists in December, above, and below. Inside Climate News: The new study, the first to analyze ocean temperatures for 2019, was based on two…

The text below is a translation of a post that I published in the Italian newspaper "Il Fatto Quotidiano" about two months ago. The idea was to provide a concise statement on the climate situation (no more than 650 words…

This is a month old already. I had no idea.…

Global temperature is affected by a lot of things, not just humans and their greenhouse gases. We know what some of those things are, and we can even estimate their impact over the last 40 years or so (since 1979…

Washington Post: The past decade was the hottest ever recorded on the planet, driven by an acceleration of temperature increases in the past five years, according to data released Wednesday. The findings, released jointly by NASA and the National Oceanic…

Conflation and how to fix it VIa AMS,  Raul Lejano looks at what in a layperson's thinking would be called conflation— confusion and blending of entirely different topics— when people think about climate change. Ideology and the Narrative of Skepticism  (open access) starts…

I recently looked for trends in precipitation in New South Wales, searching for a regional rather than continental trend. There wasn’t much to find, no real evidence of change in the yearly average rainfall. But we can also look for…

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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bud Ward (Image: Courtesy of John Cook) When it comes to climate change, it seems every family has its own version of the proverbial Cranky Uncle. An uncle, cousin, grandparent, in-law, neighbor,…

Obi-Wan described the Mos Eisley Spaceport as a place to be cautious, that a Bunny could never find a more wretched den of scum and villainy.  In Eli's humble opinion and that of many others, Obi-Wan never visited USENET.  But…

If you’re a regular follower of this blog, you’ll know that some of the most active threads have concerned the scientific consensus about climate change and, more specifically, the issue of consensus messaging. Recently, a new book has been released…

Claire Cohen-Norris volunteers with Citizens Climate Lobby as a chapter founder and leader in rural New York. Her climate advocacy sprung from her drive to provide a secure, joyful and fulfilling life for her two wonderful children. It has become…

Last year I wrote a couple of posts about a paper by Valentina Zharkova and colleagues, which suggested that global warming was partly due to the Earth moving closer to the Sun as the Sun moves around the Solar System…

Fiero Glacier in 1987 Landsat and 2020 Sentinel images.  Red arrow indicates 1987 terminus location, yellow arrow 2020 terminus lcoation, and purple dots the snowline. Point A,B and C represent locations where bedrock has expanded. Fiero Glacier is an outlet…

In recent posts I’ve featured graphs of the average daily high temperature in Australia during summer. Here’s one of temperature throughout the entire year; black dots show each year’s average, while the red line with pink shading around it shows…

A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jan 5, 2020 through Sat, Jan 11, 2020 Editor's Pick Debunked Australian Bushfire Conspiracy Theories Were Pushed by Alex Jones,…

If this is the way it’s going, we’re going to have to get a lot better managing fire. We might want to talk to some experts – indigenous people the world round have been doing this for a long time,…

Above, Koala sniffing dog. Below, rescuers and fire-singed koalas.…

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been under fire, – first for taking a Hawaiin vacation as the current bush-fire catastrophe set in – and more broadly for his staunch climate denial positions. Great ABC reporting here. Evolving story.…

Trying to work on a video about this fire and I can’t keep up. NPR: A pair of massive bushfires in southeastern Australia has merged into a “megafire” engulfing some 2,300 square miles — a single blaze more than three…

The same folks that brought you “..the Sandy Hook parents faked their own children’s deaths,..” – now bringing you “evil greenies lighting fires in Australian bush to make coal look bad.” DeSmogblog: As unusually intense and widespread bushfires have ravaged…

The "Oil Corridor," where the largest oil resources in the world are located. It was generated by events that took place during the Jurassic period. Those events can't be affected by politics, but they can affect politics.For a while, the…

University of Sydney: Update on number of animals killed in Australian bushfires: Sydney expertShareProfessor Chris Dickman has revised his estimate of the number of animals killed in bushfires in NSW to more than 800 million animals, with a national impact…

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Corporations, special interest groups, and individuals inject billions of dollars into the American political system every year. Much of the financial support in politics is concealed from public view, as…