Planet3.0 Blogs

Some recent things have shown Eli how nothing changes.  Stuff that was a farce back then remains a farce today,  It's not that history occurs first as tragedy then as comedy, it always was comedy.  Now and again, Eli points…

If you saw my cat-scan of an anti-wind fake news release, here – you get it that the fossil industry will go to any lengths to hang on to it’s business for a few more fleeting years, even if it…

Earth Day has come and gone, and it’s time to kick off the 2018 Dark Snow Project Field season fund raiser. The video highlights the ways researchers and communicators have used the Dark Snow effort as a platform to publish…

Had never heard this. Good climate comms. Advertisements…

FastCompany: Last March, AB InBev announced every single bottle of beer it brews will be done with renewable energy by 2025. The company is making progress on that pledge and by this spring, every bottle of Budweiser brewed in the…

The oldest stories of human lore have to do with cutting trees and with the disasters that followed as a consequence. Above, legendary Sumerian heroes Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the guardian of the trees, Huwawa (image source). Several thousand years…

An Anti Wind group sent out an expensive glossy mailer to thousands of households in my Mid-Michigan area. The Mailer depicts massive wind turbines menacing a local farm. So massive, it made me curious to find out if the picture…

Earth Family Alpha: The Texas Chronicle April 22, 2038 by Max Stamp Few took notice of a story back in 2016 when a team of Japanese scientists sifting through plastic waste found bacteria capable of breaking down and “eating” one…

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It’s almost 20 years since the publication of the first hockey stick paper (Mann, Bradley & Hughes 1998). In case people don’t know, the hockey stick refers to a temperature reconstruction that indicates that surface temperatures had been reasonably flat,…

Recently the how to say it wars have picked up again and Eli thought he would have one.  Now some, not Eli to be sure, might think that there is neither rhyme nor reason over here, but a couple of…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message    Credit: Freestylephoto Getty Images When the hockey stick was first attacked…

The "Solar Roadways" plant in Idaho in an image from the "EmphaseEnergy" site. The performance of this expensive plant is abysmally low and, with the best of good will, I can't see it as anything but a propaganda stunt to…

Scientific American: Two decades ago this week a pair of colleagues and I published the original “hockey stick” graph in Nature, which happened to coincide with the Earth Day 1998 observances. The graph showed Earth’s temperature, relatively stable for 500…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change mitigation 1. Pathways limiting warming to 1.5°C: a tale of turning around in no time? (open access) 2. Climate change and technology: examining opinion formation of geoengineering 3. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus:…

Changes in four glacier at the headwaters of Rio Tigre, Argentina in 1987 and 2017 Landsat images.  The red arrow indicate the 1987 terminus position and the yellow arrow the 2017 terminus position.  Glaciers form the headwaters for Lago Cholila…

It’s 4/20. Description: From Steppenwolf’s LP, simply entitled The Second, “Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam” is the best of the deep tracks on the album and one of the major underground radio songs of 1968 and 1969. Advertisements…

WGBH Boston has produced an outstanding episode of NOVA about climate change. It’s realistic, it doesn’t give “equal time to idiots,” and it highlights the prospect of realistic solutions without soft-pedalling the problems. Definitely worth a watch. This post’s title…

Most of us have seen graphs of global temperature anomaly, like this one using data from NASA: The temperature increase is, not to put too fine a point on it, obvious. If we were climate deniers, how could we graph…

Qiaqing Glacier in 1992 and 2017 Landsat images indicating flow, blue arrows, 1992 terminus at red arrow and 2017 terminus at yellow arrow. tributaries A, B and C.  “Qiaqing” Glacier drains southeast from the Kona Kangri Massif at the eastern…

You won't believe what Obama says in this video 😉 pic.twitter.com/n2KloCdF2G — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) April 17, 2018 And it could get worse if we don’t wise up fast. MIT News: A new study by three MIT scholars has found that…

This season of severe storms is consistent with predictions and observations of the past 3 decades. Welcome to the rest of our lives. Deke Arndt of NOAA: Speaking of shockers, the first quarter of 2018 saw three billion-dollar weather or…

With global warming, we can make predictions and then take measurements to test those predictions. One prediction (a pretty obvious one) is that a warmer world will have less snow and ice. In particular, areas that have year-round ice and snow will…

Conquering nature. How’s that working out for you? Nature: The Mississippi River was once thought to be uncontrollable: no feat of engineering could prevent the river from bursting its banks and sending floodwaters across its natural domain. But since the…

People get really indignant about the possibility of solar roads, but I think, frankly, if China decides there will be solar roads, there will be solar roads. Bloomberg: The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping…

If you never took this test before, spend two minutes on it before reading the text below. The "selective attention" test you see above was developed in 1999 by Christopher Chablis and Daniel Simons.  It shows how people have difficulties in…

Continued from Part 1 What they decline to understand Thousands of climate scientists are working on all kinds of interesting subjects, from glaciology to oceanography to ecology to atmospheric physics. Some pseudo-skeptics don't understand that and seem to have no inkling of…

In Florida, Kids are ignoring the ban on the words “climate change”. Inside Climate News: Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate-policy-averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the impacts of…

MIT Technology Review: erry Taylor believes he can change the minds of conservative climate skeptics. After all, he helped plant the doubts for many in the first place. Taylor spent years as a professional climate denier at the Cato Institute,…