The oxygen concentration in the atmosphere as recorded at the Mauna Loa observatory (link). It is going down and the obvious explanation is that it is the result of our burning of fossil fuels. But do we risk to suffocate… [more]
I found it on “upworthy.com” with the caption “If this scares you as much as it scares me, share this far and wide.” Scared? After 2 minutes, I was already asleep.(do not misunderstand me, I appreciate the effort and the… [more]
Right Wing Watch: America Needs Fatima, a project of the right-wing American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, is linking the tornadoes that hit Illinois this weekend to the state’s recent approval of a marriage equality bill.… [more]
This being the Christmas season, a time of good cheer, charity and thoughtfulness Eli would like to direct the bunnies attention towards support of a cultural icon and a vital climate data set, the Keeling curve. As many are aware… [more]
Missed this presentation. Good thing Livescience didn’t. LiveScience: SAN FRANCISCO — The trail of twisted metal and torn roofs left behind by massive twisters is growing longer and wider, a sign that tornadoes may be growing stronger, climate scientist James… [more]
The Canadians, eh? Remember those nice, civilized people who lived up north of us? They’re gone. They’re under new management, which is cleaning house. Starting with burning the libraries. The Tyee, British Columbia: The Harper government has dismantled one of… [more]
By Ben Blanchard; Editing by Michael Perry11 December 2013 BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have told pilots who fly to Beijing they must be qualified to land their aircraft in the low visibility bought about by smog, state media said… [more]
Via this Gruaniad comment, this article listing `faltering or bankrupt’ US green companies that have received government money.
Krugman provides the basic riposte: “because the private sector never ever puts money into ventures that end up failing.” But I thought… [more]
Eli was on his way from his East Coast burrow to the AGU meeting in San Francisco, when winter weather wreaked (“wroke”?) havoc on air traffic. He had to make a unscheduled stop in Las Vegas. He waved as he… [more]
This is a re-post of an article at The Conversation by Guy Williams from the University of Tasmania
Recently NASA reported that this year’s maximum wintertime extent of Antarctic sea ice was the largest on record, even greater than the… [more]
“Catastrophic global warming” and “global warming crisis” are both illogical, straw man style red herrings. Continue reading →… [more]
By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle8 Dec 2013 OSLO (Reuters) – A thaw of Arctic ice and snow is linked to worsening summer heatwaves and downpours thousands of miles south in Europe, the United States and other areas, underlying the scale… [more]
I sat next to Stephen Lewandowski at dinner last night. Dr. Lewandowski is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol. He has compared the 21st century’s two (so far) overwhelming and utter failures of journalism – the… [more]
To no one’s surprise, there’s been some news lately about both a (potential) BBB (Big Battery Breakthrough) as well as RCH (Really Cheap Hydrogen).
Starting with the BBB, we have Japan’s Sekisui Chemical develop Silicon based 600 km range battery:… [more]
Last week, I was delighted to visit one of my favorite places in NYC, the American Museum of Natural History. Over a decade ago, I served as a Fellow with the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, and it stands out… [more]
A quote from Rebecca Solnit via Caroline Lucas talking at the closing session of the Tyndall Centre’s radical emissions reduction conference:
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an… [more]
A quote from Rebecca Solnit via Caroline Lucas talking at the closing session of the Tyndall Centre’s radical emissions reduction conference:
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an… [more]
By Andrew Freedman 10 December 2013 (Climate Central) – While the continental U.S. has been shivering from coast-to-coast with temperatures dropping as low as minus-40°F amid one of the most severe early December cold snaps in several years, one state… [more]
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 69
Table of Contents
Chapter 71
Chapter 70
Sunbugs, February 12, 2058
We adjusted slowly to the changes in our household. It felt funny sleeping in dad’s old bed. Edie didn’t say a… [more]
from the blog of the Club of Rome. Book presentation: “Plundering the Planet. The Future of Mankind in the Age of Dwindling Resources” by Ugo BardiDecember 11th, 2013: Vienna (Austria)What can be a future strategic approach to handle resource scarcity… [more]
Thought that Eli forgot. Nononono… [more]
In a rather reflective last post for the year at The Daily Blog today — Tomorrow is being written in New Zealand’s mountains — I ruminate on the impact warming is having on New Zealand’s largest glacier. All pictures were… [more]
Here is a prediction for you.
I suspect that, over the coming months, the rhetoric over ABC will get louder, largely from News Corp. but also parroted by the Coalition. It is, after all, what the Abbott led government and… [more]
Gracey Creek Glacier is a small glacier in southeast Alaska that terminates near the Canadian border. The glacier’s main terminus is the northern terminus (red arrow), though it has southern terminus as well (purple dot), both drain into Behm Canal… [more]
SHIMONOSEKI, YAMAGUCHI PREF., 7 December 2013 (KYODO) – Three ships have left Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and 50 fin whales through March. The Fisheries Agency had… [more]
From Jorg Friedrichs’ The Future is Not What it Used to Be (p.3-4):
For the sake of the argument, assume that world economic output continues to grow by 3 percent per annum. This implies that global GDP will double within… [more]
Andrew Freedman outdid himself on Climate Central with an excellent overview of the scientific debate on the link between Arctic sea ice loss and a wavy jet stream causing weird and extreme weather. Coincidentally (?) there's an "extreme kink" in… [more]
Nonono, not the policy statement, well there is that, but a bunch of resources that ACS has put out there a climate science tool kit for folks to learn from and use, put together by a top notch working group… [more]
by Sophie Webber (UBC Geography)
I just returned from five weeks of dissertation fieldwork in Solomon Islands. My friends and family are always jealous of my research trips, thinking they look something like this photo.
Of course it does; Solomon… [more]
After months of nothing much, TempLS showed a rise in November, from 0.494°C (Oct) to 0.658°C. By contrast, satellite indices went down.Here is the spherical harmonics plot of the temperature distribution:Russia was the hot spot, with N America, esp W… [more]
