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An EV is the closest most of us will come to a jet pack. Video Description – Plug into the Present: When you’re behind the wheel, are you a Jetson or a Flintstone? Check out this cool commercial to learn…

Trump goes on a bizarre anti-windmill rant, including mimicking a terrorist shooting one of them down pic.twitter.com/2qyjer8C37 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2018 The President inexplicably rants about terrorists shooting at wind turbines – then parrots standard wind-bagger lines…

I have been playing around with Luminar photo editor and I think the the Sunrays filter is interesting. Whytecliff Park with Sunrays Whytecliff Park without Sunrays What do You think?…

And if so, what does that mean to us? Could the Cretaceous extinction have been more due to climate change than asteroid impact? Below, discussion of an earlier extinction that scientists think was indeed climate related. Advertisements…

Cool. But unsettling in an era of brain eating amoebas. Siberian Times: This is the first picture of an ancient foal dug out of the permafrost in the Batagai depression – also known as the ‘Mouth of Hell’ –  in…

New Republic: After touring several neighborhoods ravaged by the Carr Fire on Sunday, the Interior secretary said large, healthy trees must be removed from national forests to prevent the spread of wildfire flames. “It doesn’t matter whether you believe or…

Part 24, plum tuckered out   17 Aug Back to Cooper – gray day with passing showers, and mist, but pretty mild temp and little wind until this evening. Now it seems […]…

Dark Snow Project 2018 about to commence.  We’ve exceeded our funding goal, pending a few major pledges currently in process. Disclaimer: No cats will actually be shipped to the Arctic. Thanks to all who made this possible.  We have an…

I sure hope so. Found this vid after stumbling across this… 3 years ago this video started it all. I’ve spent the last 40 yrs in the subway and now this fall I’m going on TOUR! 🙏🏾💞22 cities across the…

I’ve posted interviews recently from Michigan Utility executives (see below) who have recently set new goals for decarbonizing in coming decades – huge turnaround in just a few years. Same thing happening in Wisconsin. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin’s two largest…

Rob Meyer in The Atlantic is doing some of the best reporting right now on climate change. Here’s one of his latest. The Atlantic: Over the past few years, I’ve heard dozens of scientists talk about solar geo-engineering, the once…

It all started with Cliff Mass saying “… with huge transient peaks and troughs (see below). With such variability …” when talking about CalFire data of area burned by wildfire in California from 1987 through 2016. His comment led me…

A quite spectacular event took place during the past two weeks, and if it had continued for a while longer, I'm sure it would've been reported widely. It's something I've semi-jokingly alluded to when setting up this blog back in…

PIOMAS data came in a bit later this month, and I'm a bit later still, but this gives us an opportunity to look at what may happen during the second half of the month. ----- Another month has passed and…

The figure above, showing a cooling trend in the United States, was posted by Steven Goddard (aka Tony Heller) on his blog with the remarkable title of "The Deplorable Climate Science Blog" (actually there is a slightly different one on…

As bad as it has been, it’s going to get worse. Advertisements…

Bear with me. I was completely freaked out by the trailer for a new documentary on Alex Honnold, apparently the world’s best free climber, and his ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite park. Nat Geo presentation will be out soon.…

Since there are now 1000 posts on this blog, I thought I might write another with some reflections. We’re also about to go on holiday for a few days, the last before my daughter heads off to university, so there…

Cleantechnica: Drones, going beyond their military origins, have reached almost every form of aerial transportation. It’s fresh new target: reopening the door to personal air mobility. The Black Fly is a personal air mobility vehicle from Opener we covered a…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Scientists mock Trump’s tweet on wildfires as ‘comedically ill-informed’ and ‘unmitigated crap’  Trump's climate denial is "a crime against the planet"…

In response to my post, you said my analysis is “very weak” and that I used “an inappropriate statistical approach that did not consider the variability of the time series.” The Theil-Sen trend estimate is robust, in fact it’s what…

The whole story in a table.... The graphic below (click on it for a large version) is adapted from a table in the supporting information from a newly published paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Trajectories…

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Cliff Mass has joined the ranks of those who want you to believe that California’s wildfire problem isn’t getting worse. He starts (his blog post here) by saying that the number of fires in California has decreased over the last…

It’s carny season again. Just a tip. Tamino of the Open Mind Blog has a terrific take-down of a bogus temps graph that’s been making the rounds. So clear even I can understand it. I’m told it’s burning up Twitter.…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change Temperature, precipitation, wind Optimal Ranking Regime Analysis of U.S. Summer Temperature and Degree-Days: 1895-2015 Detectable Impacts of the Past Half‐Degree Global Warming on Summertime Hot Extremes in…

From the National Center on Science Education. Advertisements…

The guitar break is ridiculous. Advertisements…

Polar bears are somewhat overexposed. This is what climate change looks like. New footage from CBC above. Below,  2017 footage. Below, satellite view of smoke extending over USA.   Below, 2014 footage, -pretty amazing. BBC with smoke jumpers. Wired: As…

  .@alroker explains the 2017 State of the Climate report which says 2017 was… -Warmest non-El Niño year on record-3rd warmest year overall-Last 4 years have been warmest on record pic.twitter.com/Wk7NaPKHT9 — TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 3, 2018 In a summer…