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Bernie Sanders has officially announced his candidacy for the Presidency, entering an already-crowded field of democrats. I’ve been wondering which candidate I should support. Now I know. Sorry, Elizabeth, Kamala, all the rest of you. I like you, really I…

As a scientist I've had an "elevator speech" prepared for a few years now. This year I made an "elevator video" & let me tell you: people enjoy seeing my research way more than just hearing about it! So what…

Marshall Shepherd in Forbes: National security. Numerous reports by military entities note the immediate threats of climate change to national security. The American Security Project website compiles a good list of recent reports and articles on this topic. A 2019…

Wally Broeker, someone I wish I could have met.  Known for being right before almost anyone else. “We play Russian roulette with climate .. no one knows what lies in the active chamber of the gun.” – Wally Broeker, Nature,…

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Sorry, folks, no Monday post on Cassandra this week. I am in bed with a nasty bronchitis -- I feel like a whale after having eaten an accordion.Nothing serious, but it will take a few days for me to recover.…

So just as high speed rail gets a political lift via the Green New Deal, the one active effort bites the dust in California. Read the link though, it's not entirely dead - Newsom committed to a strange little stretch…

Boulder Glacier terminus position 1980-2018 as measured in the field. Note Lahar path that descends from Sherman Crater.  Lahars have also occurred subglacially during our field observations. Boulder Glacier flows down the east side of Mount Baker a strato volcano…

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Schizo about this one, as finding a better way for yahoos to tear up wilderness spaces doesn’t seem like a great idea to me. That said, looks like this new electric truck/EV platform has nutsy capabilities – at a price.…

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Cosmos: You’ve attracted quite a bit of negative attention for being in that position as well. The whole Climategate “scandal”. Climategate, in hindsight, is very interesting, because it involved hacked emails, and Saudi Arabia and Russia were both involved. WikiLeaks…

Alex Steffen on Twitter: Hey, it’s worth unpacking this latest column from @BretStephensNYT, because it’s saying outright what has been a quiet strategy of the Carbon Lobby for decades. And that strategy is one that every person who wants to…

You may have heard of the cumulative temperature increases plateauing between 1998 and 2013. “But Da Paws” was all the rage around 2012 in the Contrarian Matrix – recall for instance when David Rose became Judy’s megaphone. Then it subsided:…

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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 10 through Sat, Feb 16, 2019 Editor's Pick What we can learn about climate change from the Titanic Kate Winslet…

Damn, how the hell have I never heard this before? Acoustic version with Jeff Tweedy below. Advertisements…

As long as it’s an actually emergency, might as well. Legal Planet: Republicans are apparently worried that if Trump could use emergency powers by declaring border security a national emergency, the next president could do the same thing for climate…

This sign made me laugh (it might be a generation thing). Credit: this tweet.I thought I would try to briefly write about today’s school strike for climate. I mostly think this is a really good thing. I don’t think we…

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  John Shimkus in 2009. Below, John Shimkus today. Proving that evolution is real, but maybe not “intelligent design”. Rep. Fred Upton, R-MI, Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill, Rep. Greg Walden, R-OR, in RealClearPolicy: Climate change is real, and as Republican…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation Upscaling from the grassroots: potential aggregate carbon reduction from community-based initiatives in Europe Climate change communication An assessment of public perceptions of climate change risk in…

And there goes the A380, too. You would think that the European aerospace industry wouldn't repeat the mistake they made with the Concorde, would they? But they managed not only to repeat it, but too make it bigger.At the time…

Eli has an idea.  Usual disclaimers.Let's have a dividend and fee carbon tax. Let's pay the first year dividend and only start to collect the fee in the second, and let's even give bonus' for good deeds, like riding public…

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  ThinkProgress: The Green New Deal resolution introduced last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) states that fighting climate change requires “a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since…

Sandhill Crane at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary…

Boydell Glacier, Antarctica retreat in Landsat images from 2001 and 2017,  terminus in 2001 at red dots in 2017 at yellow dots.  A-E are reference points.  Boydell Glacier flows east from the northern Antarctic Peninsula and prior to the 1980’s…

This is a re-post from Triple Crisis by Frank Ackerman.  Second in a series of posts on climate policy.  Find Part 1 here. According to scientists, climate damages are deeply uncertain, but could be ominously large (see the previous post). Alternatively, according to…

In a ‘Breakfast’ interview with Fran Kelly on ABC Radio National, the Minister for Energy, Angus Taylor, made a number of statements which are either wrong or misleading.  A record of the interview is available here. 1.  The Minister claims that a…