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Hi Gang,Eli is out on the flatlands and yes he has been neglecting his duties, but there are a couple of interesting things this year in the Arctic.  For one thing although the melt is not as large as in…

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Aurelio Peccei in 1969, when he was appointed the first president of the Club of RomeThe Club of Rome is inextricably linked to the legendary report that it commissioned to a group of MIT researchers in 1972, "The Limits to…

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Now that we’ve gotten through Hurricane Florence, Americans should be completely up to speed when it comes to dealing with disasters that have been amplified by anthropogenic climate change, right? Not so fast. Judging from…

Skip to 4:11 if rushed. Trump spokesman recently named in court documents “of slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant girlfriend’s smoothie”. (is there anyone that doubts this?) Climate denier, natch. Advertisements…

Conservative’s pathological hatred of Al Gore is based on the deep seated recognition that George Bush, who was handed the Presidency with a minority vote, (due to a Supreme Court judges his Father had appointed)  was, until recently, the worst…

I was wanting to quickly comment on a recent Bjorn Lomborg article in the New York Post called No, global warming isn’t causing worse hurricanes. It’s mainly a response to another article in the New York Post called Climate change…

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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Solar Energy Largely Unscathed by Hurricane Florence’s Wind and Rain North Carolina gets nearly 5 percent of its electricity from solar…

Public Service spot from the UK, 1975. Back when coal mining was glamorous, I guess. GOP is dusting this off to recruit millennials to , I guess. Advertisements…

Quartz People of the Carolinas are picking up the pieces after Hurricane Florence, the wettest tropical cyclone on record. Among the news of dozens of deaths, overflowing pig-manure lagoons, and flooded coal-ash fields, there are some bright spots. Solar-power installations…

Above, new approaches to air conditioning – an emerging major energy suck. Below, Chicago’s district cooling technology – here today.…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change  Historicizing climate change—engaging new approaches to climate and history (open access) State of the Climate in 2017 (open access) Temperature, precipitation, wind The strengthening of Amazonian precipitation during the…

Washington Post: Floodwaters breached a dam near a Duke Energy power plant on Friday, the company said, raising fears that toxic coal ash could reach the nearby Cape Fear River. The rising waters also swamped a 625-megawatt natural gas plant…

Nature: Understanding ice sheet behaviour in the geological past is essential for evaluating the role of the cryosphere in the climate system and for projecting rates and magnitudes of sea level rise in future warming scenarios. Although both geological data…

The tracks of Cyclones in temperate regions may be affected by changes in arctic sea ice. But those watching these videos heard from the key players in this emerging science in 2012. When Jennifer Francis started finding tele-connections between the…

Model for pushing back deserts in China. Just to be clear, China is engaged in pillaging and raping environments around the world, – but credit where it’s due – this appears to be promising sustainable technology – and points the…

Murchison Falls Uganda I took this photo way back in 2012. Uganda is one of the most difficult places to travel in (unless you want to spend a lot more than I was willing to spend). But the National Parks…

Duiya Glacier, China in 1990 and 2017 Landsat images.  Red arrow indicates 1990 terminus, yellow arrow the 2017 terminus, pink arrow the terminus area of Duosangpuxi purple dots the snowline Duiya Glacier, China is in the Pumqu Basin northwest of…

Yet another destructive hurricane has hit the US, following a highly unusual path, smashing precipitation records all around. Dr Jennifer Francis breaks it down in this excellent video from The Real News Network (please, share):  …

I wanted to just post this figure from a new paper by Philip Goodwin called On the time evolution of climate sensitivity and future warming. It uses a modified energy balance approach in which multiple climate feedbacks evolve independently over…

Above, gravity storage concept is a physically simple idea, one of dozens currently in development to tackle the variable energy of renewables. Wired: But this exhilarating progress in “decarbonizing the energy sector” (in the jargon of energy economists) misleads. Today,…

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, and nowhere more evident here. Well known as a racist and Trump sycophant, (but I repeat myself..) Florida Gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis recently told reporters that sea level rise, might indeed be…

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Photo of one of Cypress Creek’s solar plants in Eastern NC, taken after the hurricane – in solid shape. Resilient, sustainable power 💪 (and with on-site fuel supply!) pic.twitter.com/3q2RPMxAya — Tyler Norris (@tylerhnorris) September 18, 2018…

Quartz: Another victim of Hurricane Florence: farm animals. Millions of animals left on farms in North Carolina during the record-breaking rainfall have drowned in the flooding. As of Tuesday (Sept. 18), the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,…

Gentle reminder: Those who follow these videos will get an early heads up on emerging topics in climate change. Stefan Rahmstorf’s 2015 paper (with Michael Mann and Jason Box) is, in the wake of Hurricane Florence, a hot topic of…

In other words, the ultimate Trumper wet dream. Yahoo News: About 3.4 million chickens and turkeys and 5,500 hogs have been killed in flooding from Florence as rising North Carolina rivers swamped dozens of farm buildings where the animals were…

One day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg stumbled across a piece of paper with apocalyptic implications. Ellsberg, who was advising the US government on its secret nuclear war plans, had discovered a document that contained an official estimate of…

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