Above, CBS News has a series called Climate Diaries, which is a long overdue serious attempt at climate reporting. This installment covers antarctic ice as measured by NASA’s Icebridge project. Installment one above is ok, but I have a problem…
Columbia Journalism Review: THE FEROCITY OF HURRICANE MICHAEL came into view on Thursday as images of devastation filtered out of the Florida panhandle. Stories on the storm’s trail of ruin appear on the front pages of today’s New York Times,…
One of climate change’s most terrifying and heart breaking effects is species extinction. Washington Post: Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. A…
Do we have to do this again? We do. Due to high demand from journalists and others as to the “Sure, the climate is changing but how much is due to humans?” – talking point rolled out in back to…
Nice tweet from Oceanographer Kris Karnauskas, showing how efficiently Michael sucked up and utilized excess ocean heat to rip up Florida. Below, my video of Kevin Trenberth’s team, who analyzed that process during Harvey, last year. As #HurricaneMichael passes over…
In 2005, some climate deniers made a 10k bet with a climate modeler that “solar cooling” would lower Earth’s temperature in the decade now passed. Newsflash: Climate deniers also deadbeats. See above for my latest debunker on the “Sun is…
As I mentioned last week, ballooning climate disasters are putting pressure on the Insurance industry. And, it turns out, ballooning the deficit, as well. The Hill: “Disasters aren’t anomalies — they are unfortunately a sure thing, and they are getting…
Did you hear about NASA’s massive conspiracy…..? It’s 2018. Instead of a jetpack I get this shit? CBS interviews Flat Earthers for the Sunday morning show, and the Denier in Chief for 60 Minutes. . @LesleyRStahl : “Do you still…
Climate denier hero Dana Rohrabacher is, like Donald Trump, a favorite of Vladimir Putin. Now Republicans are pulling support from Rorhabacher’s re-election campaign. Raw Story: The Republican Party’s top funding group for congressional races will not spend money to support…
And to be clear, neither does any Republican, full stop. In an interview covering devastation from Hurricane Michael, Jake Tapper pursued the obvious question. Whatever exists in the place where Human Beings would normally have souls responded. Daily Beast: “Yeah,…
For right wingers, there is a psychological necessity to demonize Al Gore. They know that the theft of the 2000 election, (with the active low level participation of newly appointed SCOTUS member Brett Kavanaugh..) lead to the elevation of the…
Are you in good hands? Wall Street Journal (paywalled): Home prices on the U.S.’s eastern seaboard, battered by fiercer storms and higher seas, are lagging behind those inland. Farmland prices are rising in North America’s once-frigid reaches, partly because of…
Jeff Masters on Weather Underground: As Hurricane Michael sped northwards on October 9 towards a catastrophic landfall on Florida’s Panhandle, the mighty hurricane put on an phenomenal display of rapid intensification. Michael’s winds increased by 45 mph in the final…
Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone: ..watch this short video. In it, you’ll see a scientist named Richard Alley in a Skype discussion with students at Bard College, as well as with Eban Goodstein, director of the Graduate Programs in Sustainability…
Perfect storm of Ignorance and Ego as Trump Yaks with Kanye while is base voters drown. Especially effective split screen of Kanye/Trump vs Florida destruction. I guess this is the Republican idea of “male energy”. Not the way I was…
John Abraham in the Guardian: It is a wonder that a state like Florida, which will get pummeled by Michael, could vote for someone that denies climate change. Think of how backwards the situation is – the Florida Department of…
2018 Update from Andy Lee Robinson: Latest visualization of the startling decline of Arctic Sea Ice up to 2018, showing the minimum volume reached every September since 1979, set on a map of New York with a 10km grid to…
Reposting MIT Hurricane Expert Kerry Emanuel from 2016 – his analysis only more prescient with time. #Michael had 155 mph winds at landfall–roundoff error from a cat 5, and the STRONGEST landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record this late in…
NBC now predicting cat 4 strength tonight. Moving over area of “bathwater” warm Gulf. Weather Channel: Michael has intensified to a Category 3 major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Michael is expected to make landfall along the Florida…
Ron Baron, Baron Funds CEO and CIO, discusses the popularity and quality of Tesla cars as compared to other automakers as well as the future of electric vehicles. “In 10 years the automobile industry will be unrecognizable.” Advertisements…
Shocking. Watch what happened when I asked a bus stop full of CA students if they'd vote in their *key* midterm district. Bueller? While Trump's latest fire drill is underway, here's something else to think about: why young Americans don't…
Weather.com: Hurricane Michael has strengthened to Category 2 intensity, and is forecast to strike the Florida Panhandle as a Category 3 with dangerous storm surge flooding, destructive winds and flooding rainfall. Michael will also bring heavy rain and strong winds…
Good report from PBS will not be new to viewers here, – it looks like a review of my posts from the last decade – but – some folks are just to the point of being ready to hear. Meanwhile,…
MLive: FLINT, MI — All Flint Community Schools will receive new water stations and water filtration via a donation by tech billionaire Elon Musk. The school district issued a tweet on Thursday night offering its thanks to Musk and the…
Nobody ever said fossil fuel interests would go quietly. Last gasp effort by coal mining interests to cut and strip an ancient forest in Germany. Resistance holding, for now. Tree and tunnel sitters occupying Hambach forest. Meanwhile, Germany bashers and,…
