Planet3.0 Blogs

The story of the boy who cried wolf too many times is a good way to illustrate our attitude toward the people who try to warn us about dangers ahead. Maybe it is about a wolf, or about climate change,…

GISS calendar year average above 1951-1980 'baseline':2014:  .73C2015:  .872016:  .992017:  .902018:  .822019 is coming on strong, possibly a new record. No chance it will be cooler than 2014, and 2014 was above the next warmest year, 2010's .70C.It's hard to…

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Or, similar question, “Why is the Green New deal?” Answer is that, there is no legislation yet. Turns out this kind of massive program is really, really, really hard to put together.To do it, we’re going to have to do…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jun 9 through Sat, June 15, 2019 Editor's Pick  Costa Rica Doubled Its Forest Cover In Just 30 Years!   Costa…

One of the best arguments for transitioning to renewable, distributed energy, is the national security factor.A grid that is more dispersed and diverse, that looks more like the internet, will be inherently more resilient to disruption in the age of…

Snowcover extent in Landsat images from August, 1998 and 2018. S=Sperry, H=Harrison, J=Jackson, B=Blackfoot and P=Pumpelly Five of the eight largest glaciers in Glacier National Park are clustered in a small area: Jackson Glacier, Sperry Glacier, Pumpelly Glacier, Harrison Glacier,…

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeffrey Kiehl Life makes us wake up to needed changes. A visit to the doctor’s office and accompanied tests indicate you have been diagnosed as pre-diabetic. Your doctor indicates two pathways to…

Frank Luntz is a well known Republican pollster, and author of a key road map from the early 2000s for Republican office holders on how to delay meaningful action on climate. So, yeah, he’s a monster. He has results to…

European Commission tweet features my friend Stephen Lewandowsky, Australian psychologist and expert on persuasion techniques. Here, Stephen points out an obvious warning sign of cyber propaganda. Dr. Lewandowsky is featured in my video on this topic from 2 years ago,…

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy Dunne The record-breaking 2018 summer heatwave in Japan in which more than 1,000 people died “could not have happened without human-induced global warming”, a study finds. And the extreme heat felt in…

A few months ago, I posted a piece, based on interviews with leading permafrost experts, that pushed back, hard, on the “we’re all gonna die and there’s nothing we can do” catastrophism around the so-called “methane bomb” in the arctic.…

Jeffrey Ellebogen is in a very small club of well prepared experts who know the global scientific literature on the health effects, or lack thereof, of wind power. Formerly an Assistant Professor in Neurology at Harvard, and director of the…

Gavin Schmidt on Twitter – via ThreadReaderApp: A thread on the iniquity, chance and contingent nature of having a ‘voice’ in the climate debate. “To those that have shall be given” is a paraphrase of Mathew 13:12 where it refers…

For WindBaggers, Farmers are just the help. All too often, the typical paranoid anti-wind NIMBY is a new comer to the community, someone who moved from somewhere else.The 3rd, 4th, and 5th generation farmers who work the land are seen…

Science Communication: Kimmel on Climate: Disentangling the Emotional Ingredients of a Satirical Monologue – Abstract: This study explored whether satire (an emotional blend of humor/indignation) can minimize the emotional tradeoffs researchers have documented for humorous appeals about climatechange. Using a…

Washington Post: Simultaneous heat waves scorched land areas all over the Northern Hemisphere last summer, killing hundreds and hospitalizing thousands while intensifying destructive and deadly wildfires. A study published this week in the journal Earth’s Future concludes that this heat…

Yesterday’s news reported that at least one man was killed in a conflict over water in India this week. Above, glacier experts Lonnie Thompson and Konrad Steffen note that a huge human population in Asia is dependent on major river…

Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Bristol and Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Antarctica is further from…

IowaWatch: Contamination of private well water in southwest Iowa from human and natural causes is a problem even in dry times. But in this year of prolonged flooding, well owners have heightened concerns and are keeping county health officials busy…

This is a joint post between myself and Eric Winsberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. Eric has just published, together with Naomi Oreskes and Elisabeth Lloyd, a paper called Severe Weather Event Attribution: Why values won’t…

2 October – Ymerbukta We left port yesterday afternoon with the motor but put up the sails quickly and fairly flew across the fjord. We helped with the sails – a token […]…

The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. – William Gibson DeutscheWelle: Police were tasked with guarding water tankers and water sources in Madhya Pradesh state in central India, the Times of India reported on Saturday, following clashes over…

The musical inspired by climate change won 6 Tonys the other night. Advertisements…

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Josh Gabbatiss Political lobbying in the US that helped block the progress of proposed climate regulation a decade ago led to a social cost of $60bn, according to a new study. Environmental economists Dr…

From a recent MSNBC Town Hall. Inside Climate News compared candidate programs, below. Biden’s program stops short of embracing the most politically challenging policy elements that the most ardent supporters of the Green New Deal would like to see linked…

Asejiaguo Glacier in Landsat images from 1993 and 2018.  The yellow arrow indicates the 2018 terminus and the red arrow the 1993 terminus location.  Point 1 and 2 are areas of expanding bedrock in the 5400-5600 m. Asejiaguo Glacier drains…

Grim, but that’s where we are. Go Ash clouds! Advertisements…

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