Helloooo…anybody paying attention? USAToday: Trains and planes were delayed while cars and pedestrians slogged through knee-deep water in battered Brooklyn as flash flooding swept through parts of the borough following days of intense heat and power outages. The storms hit…
Are we scared enough? I don’t think society is nearly frightened enough as a whole. But at the same time I don’t think that frightening messages need to be grounded in science – and some aren’t – the topic of…
Price of Oil: So is this how it ends? As our climate emergency deepens, as the once great Arctic icescapes melt before our eyes, and once majestic glaciers break up and melt and disappear, we are left to put plaques…
Relevant because the suffering of animals under climate change is and will be intense. Perhaps there are people unmoved by human suffering who will respond to the pain of animals. Advertisements…
Moon landing denial might be the quintessential science denial meme. Maybe Buzz Aldrin shows us the most effective, and eloquent, response to it. Esquire: The fifty years since we sent three men there—and put two on its surface!—have seen giant…
The Drive: Analysts believe that 2018 will go down as the best year for internal combustion vehicle sales ever, predicting a downturn in demand for the mode of propulsion starting in 2019. “At the beginning of the year we had…
The fact that there is a website called “Climate Liability News” suggests that polluters are at increasing risk from a rising number of climate-based lawsuits. Some 20 years ago I actually called and got thru to Rush Limbaugh, who was…
Scientific American: The federal government is ill-prepared to shoulder what could be a trillion-dollar fiscal crisis associated with extreme weather, floods, wildfires and other climate disasters through 2100, federal investigators have found. In the latest of a series of reports,…
Wikipedia: The dew point is the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor. When further cooled, the airborne water vapor will condense to form liquid water (dew) Woke up last night to check out the thunderstorm rolling thru.Normally, one feels a rush of…
Stepped outside yet today? Today in the midwest is what a normal summer day will be like in a few decades. National Geographic: In less than 20 years, millions of people in the United States could be exposed to dangerous “off-the-charts”…
Voters are more concerned than ever about climate and environment – and for them, the Democrats are the only game in town. Republicans are finding that conscience, like a muscle, can atrophy from disuse.The course for the climate-concerned is clear.…
Years ago, I was the only one talking about the all-too-obvious relationship between racism, misogyny, and climate denial. So, do we get it now? Above, 2013 interview with General Colin Powell, who was once a mainstream Republican, focuses on the…
In Georgia, the Public Service Commission chair is named Bubba. Bear that in mind when you read about them selecting solar, vs coal power. Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia will rely more on the sun to generate electricity as it retreats…
Tiny changes in the orientation of wind turbines pay big efficiency dividends. Renews.biz: Researchers at Stanford University, in California, have shown that angling turbines slightly away from the wind can boost energy produced overall. Pointing turbines slightly away from oncoming…
Jeff Berardelli for Yale Climate Connections: Consider a graph of temperatures plotted on a bell curve. Most temperatures fall near the middle of the curve, and those temperatures would be considered typical. Any temperature that falls on the edges of…
Washington Post: Boosted by a historic heat wave in Europe and unusually warm conditions across the Arctic and Eurasia, the average temperature of the planet soared to its highest level ever recorded in June. According to data released Monday by…
Reporting on algae blooms around the world often does not cover the climate connection. Cleveland.com: The bad news about this year’s Lake Erie algal toxins is that the harmful blooms are likely to be “significant” and could range up to 9…
Proceedings of the National Academy – Discussing global warming leads to greater acceptance of Climate Science: …discussing global warming with friends and family leads people to learn influential facts, such as the scientific consensus that human-caused global warming is happening.…
I’m inaugurating a new genre of YouTube memes. While I caution my catastrophist friends (get it?) that we are not looking at imminent human extinction, there are enough climate disasters in the pipeline to supply us with many decades of…
No secret we’ve had anomalous weather patterns across the US heartland over the last 6 months. I spent quite a bit of time trying to pull together the best explanations from the most credible researchers, trying to tease out the…
There is no medical literature or evidence to support the idea that wind turbines cause health effects. Jeffrey Ellenbogen MD is a neurologist, a former professor at Harvard Medical School, 6 years director of the Harvard Sleep lab at Massachusetts…
As climate change gets more obvious, Deniers get more imaginative. Right Wing Watch: Mark Taylor, a radical right-wing conspiracy theorist and so-called “firefighter prophet,” appeared on the “Up Front In The Prophetic” radio program yesterday, where he declared that the…
If you’re willing to rape Mother Earth, well, that’s just the beginning.As recent events show, climate denying politicians are heavily over-represented among the ranks of abusers and predators brought to light since the MeToo movement caught fire. Above, I interviewed…
BBC News Night: It’s almost 10 years since hackers stole thousands of emails and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. The scandal, known as “Climategate”, rocked the scientific world. Sceptics picked up on a small…
Fossil powered autocratic leaders have consistent messaging about renewable energy. They don’t like it.But they love birds. They’re all about the birds. And now, the worms. Reuters: MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned on Tuesday the use of…
We’re not in trouble because people fly – we’re in trouble because we’ve been burning coal and oil for 200 years in increasing amounts.Flying is a small, but fast growing, part of the problem. Significant that Airlines starting to feel…
