Amory Lovins in Forbes: Michael Liebreich, chairman of Bloomberg New EnergyFinance’s advisory board, points out that the U.S. fracking revolution and the consequent 2004–13 rise in domestic oil output displaced oil imports equivalent to 10 percent of domestic consumption—while two… [more]
In closing my presentation at NetRoots last thursday, I summed up a number of simple things folks could do to fight climate change – one of the most important being, to vote for gosh sake. I had spotted Congressional candidate… [more]
John Oliver is being recognized as one of the UK’s most valuable exports.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
I have a sad announcement to make, further to my previous posting about a missing edition of A Week of GW News.
Harvey E. Taylor, aka het, died Monday, July 14, 2014 at his home in Portage la Prairie, a… [more]
Understanding what is happening in the oceans is crucial since 90% of global warming is going there and attempts to measure temperatures at various depths go back to the 1960s. But, what does this Weddell seal have to do with this… [more]
People send me things. Brightening my email inbox last week was a pithy little email, headed U r a fraud. It didn’t have much to say. Here it is, in its entirety, exactly as it appeared:
Please take down your… [more]
Hang around the Watt’s Up With That? blog for any length of time, and it will become apparent that His Lordship, Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount of Brenchley, is all but worshipped by many of the regulars there. No matter how… [more]
Following on a study by my former student Sandra Banholzer and I about the influence of different types of El Niño on global temperatures, I sat down with UBC Public Affairs to answer some questions about the possible return of … [more]
Italy is being hit by an economic tsunami caused by the high costs of mineral commodities which is destroying its industrial system and plunging the country in a deeper and deeper crisis. Unfortunately, the Italian government seems to be still… [more]
“WTF” was a pretty typical reaction to video of a newly discovered physical feature on Siberia’s Yamal peninsula last week. A lot of speculation about the crater-like formation has been around the possibility of methane gas release from thawing permafrost.… [more]
Science writer Mason Inman is crowd sourcing The Frack Lab, to help underwrite his reporting on Fracking and exotic fossil fuel production, such as this example. Mason Inman in Scientific American: Shale gas now accounts for half of all U.S.… [more]
g NASA: Now in its third year, the drought in California grows worse with each month. 2013 was the driest calendar year in 119 years of records, and 2014 has not brought much relief, even as scientists and residents wait… [more]
I’ve got a week to review and upgrade my video kit next week’s jump to Greenland, so I spent some welcome time outside over the weekend playing with video cameras and time lapse sequences. Here are some raw results, which… [more]
Predicting global surface temperature changes in the short-term is a challenge for climate models. Temperature changes over periods of a decade or two can be dominated by influences from ocean cycles like El Niño and La Niña. During El Niño… [more]
SkS Highlights
Dana’s Rupert Murdoch doesn’t understand climate change basics, and that’s a problem understandably generated the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Is global warming causing extreme weather via jet stream waves? by John Abraham attracted the… [more]
This is a next stage in the display of Earth data with WebGL. It uses the general framework described here. BEST and GISS are temperature anomaly datasets, available on a 2° by 2° grid. In fact, BEST has 1° resolution,… [more]
World Council of Churches, Unitarian Universalists, United Church of Christ, and many smaller/regional church denominations and affiliated organizations have established climate divestment policies. Others are percolating – the Methodists are studying their investment policy, the Presbyterians are first going to… [more]
A reader shares this very cool video. Description: WindStream Technologies, a publicly traded company (WSTI), is proud to introduce the world’s largest hybrid renewable energy project. It was recently commissioned on the rooftop of the prominent law firm, Myers, Fletcher,… [more]
Great graphics to describe why renewables are inevitable, and taking over now. From Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
Jonathan Mann is a Brooklyn resident who writes a song, every day, apparently, and posts to Youtube. The guy is pretty good. You can encourage him here. There’s an angry and confused time traveler Wondering why things had to be… [more]
The post below is the chapter from the BAMS State of the climate 2013, that I author each year.
Full report which is the most comprehensive assessment of climate in 2013.
Alpine Glaciers – Mauri S. Pelto
The World Glacier… [more]
Direct effects from greenhouse gases are playing a significant role in making hot Northern Hemisphere summers more common even as average temperature increases slow down, find Youichi Kamae from the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan and his colleagues.… [more]
America’s oil consumption is rising, not falling, outpacing China’s
Biodiversity hotspots get hotter (and that’s not good)
Carbon price repeal a victory for fossil fuels, ideologues and climate science denial
Climate scientists see ‘very rapid declines’ in annual NOAA report… [more]
It seems to me that Roger Pielke Jr. is now persona non grata at Nate Silver’s 538 blog. Silver, whose statistics-based predictions of the last presidential election were stunningly accurate, hoped to capitalize on his celebrity by starting a blog… [more]
John Abraham in The Guardian: As I sit here in a northern part of the United States (Minnesota), a rare summer arctic blast barrels down from Canada on what otherwise is one of the warmest days of the year. Global… [more]
More from Rocky Mountain Institute on the Solar juggernaut. A tech revolution moving faster than cell phones.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
This week’s piece about Big Tobacco loving Physicist William Happer sparked some discussions, again, about the eerie affinity climate deniers have for deadly, addictive poison. Go figure. A new friend reminded me of the video above, where Joe Bast, Chief… [more]
Darksnow.org: A large number of uncontrolled fires are burning across the Canadian NWT. The prevailing flow brings some of that smoke to darken Greenland ice. Brian Kahn at Climate Central “The amount of acres burned in the Northwest Territories is… [more]
This article is a reprint of a news release posted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on July 17, 2014.
Increases in temperature, sea level and CO2 observed; Southern Hemisphere warmth and Super Typhoon Haiyan among year’s most notable… [more]
Anita Chowdry is an artist based in London. While many are exploring electronic media and computers, she’s going in the opposite direction, exploring craftsmanship and the hands-on manipulation of matter. I find this exciting, perhaps because I spend most of… [more]
