Planet3.0 Blogs

Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Italian League and Minister of the Interior since June 2018. During the past few weeks, he has gained political prominence in Italy by adopting Trump's style and policies. Here, you see him together with the…

June 23, 1988. Easy to remember, because it’s my birthday. And the day I thought that, at last, humans were serious about the 800 pound gorilla of environmental issues. Senior NASA scientist James Hansen, whose work I had been following…

Sea level is rising. Malls are going bust everywhere. What’s the answer? Build the biggest mall ever, at sea level. Wall Street Journal: At a time when store closures are accelerating and struggling malls pockmark the country, county commissioners in…

Mother is the name for God in the mind of a child. When mother and child come here because they hope for a good life in a great nation, not only will we not let them in, we will separate…

Increasing pressure on water supplies in crowded,  historically hostile,  nuclear armed region. What could go wrong? Reuters: Droughts are becoming more frequent, creating problems for India’s rain-dependent farmers. At the same time, disputes between states are on the rise. Interstate…

Part 17, a new epic 17 July – Cooper Island While in Barrow, I went out with the snowy owl crew for nest checks on the tundra. The snowys are beautiful. The […]…

Female Wood Duck – Stanley Park…

Illustration and initial text from a recent post on WUWTSometimes, I have this horrible feeling that the battle against fake news and propaganda is just impossible to win. The latest example is an article appeared on the unnamable WUWT blog,…

Good news, right now, have enough raised to get me to Greenland in August – have some very interesting activities mapped out – more on that as things gel. Bad news, budget is still very lean and bare bones. Will…

Is that bad? That sounds bad. But I thought “CO2 is plant food”. Video above is 8 years old, one of my “Climate Denial Crock” series –  but more current than ever. DeutscheWelle: A new study has further revealed how…

Updated 5 day rainfall forecast from @NWSWPC looks similar to what you'd find with a landfalling tropical storm. However, this disturbance is unlikely to get a name but impacts will be the same.That's 10-13" bullseye over SE Texas coast! pic.twitter.com/UNRtSyBIdd…

Climate models do an excellent job reproducing how Earth’s temperature has changed over the last century and more. But when Judith Curry gives one of her interesting presentations, she seems determined to imply that they don’t. Here, for instance, is…

One of the clearest signs of global warming is the disappearance of sea ice in polar regions, so dramatic that people actually take notice — and not just the people who live in the Arctic. Climate deniers don’t want you…

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Bloomberg: The world’s biggest companies are increasingly worried about climate change. The terms “climate” and “weather” combined were among the most frequently discussed topics among executives of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies, beating “Trump,” “the dollar,” “oil” and “recession” according…

I met David Lafarga only twice, at the two meetings on oil depletion held in Barbastro, in Spain, a few years ago. It was enough for me to be impressed by his dedication, his competency, and his friendly attitude. It…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick In a Warming World, Deadly Bacteria Are More Resistant to Antibiotics     E. coli bacteria. Source: NIAID Tom Patterson became ill in 2015…

Solar, in Northern Europe, at 4 cents/Kwh. Wind same. Offshore wind with no subsidy. Sounds like something we can learn from. I’ve listened to the first third of this so far, and it’s worthwhile. Forbes: Baseload power is not the…

Above, Michigan’s largest utility, Consumer’s Energy, lays out a plan to retire coal and replace with efficiency and solar. Bloomberg: Despite tariffs that President Trump imposed on imported panels, the U.S. installed more solar energy than any other source of…

I was wanting to write a brief post about a recent Adam Frank article in the New York times called Earth Will Survive. We May Not. I also have a post about an earlier Adam Frank article, and I also…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts Mankind The Inequality of Climate Change From 1.5 to 2°C of Global Warming (open access) "The Paris Agreement aims to keep global warming well below 2°C above…

Two Universes. Two reasons not to worry about a thing. Above, Bob Marley, below, Mose Allison. Advertisements…

Guardian: Tubs of Strawberry Breeze-cake, Cherry Gale-cia and other wind-themed ice-creams will feature in a campaign by Ben & Jerry’s to persuade the government to rethink its opposition to onshore windfarms. The renamed flavours will be sold at half price…

Coutts Ice Cap in  Landsat images from 1986 and 2017.  The terminus location of the main glacier terminating in the large lake is indicated by dots.  Tributary Glaciers 1-6 represent locations where glaciers have separated or a glacier has retreated…

New research out of Antarctica shows the continent’s ice mass loss has tripled in the last 5 years or so. That’s not good, so might be time to review some of the key Antarctica videos from the last few years.…

NEW RULE: Adults need to stop catering to whiny babies. At the recent G7 conference, responsible world leaders from major economies got even more serious about climate change. Funny how adults want to protect their kids, and everybody else’s kids…

Tar sands are the dirtiest fossil fuels. These are low-quality heavy tar-like oils that are mined from sand or rock. Much of the mining occurs in Alberta Canada, but it is also mined elsewhere, in lesser quantities. Tar sands are the…

A lot of news and talk about carbon capture and negative emissions this week. James Hansen talks us down. James Hansen’s Blog: I am minimizing Communications, so that I can (really!) finish Sophie’s Planet, while also providing expert testimony for…

Above, I interviewed Glaciologist Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol in December at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans. I wanted to ask him to comment on a point I had heard in regard to Antarctica,…

Ugo Bardi speaks at an event on climate change in Florence, on May 25th, 2018. Obviously, what I am holding is a toy, not a real gun. I was discussing guns as a metaphor for our penchant for doing dangerous…