Above – Spoon-Tamago.com: The startling effects of the passage of time come into sharp focus in aerial images taken of Fukushima’s “difficult-to-return zones” in the seventh summer since the March 2011 nuclear disaster. Tetsuro Takehana, an Asahi Shimbun photographer who…
Tesla Model 3 has hit the streets, but it’s only one of a rapidly expanding fleet of EVs, that are aimed at changing how the world moves. On the horizon, driverless EVs are the true paradigm shifter. How soon? How…
ABC News: Neither President Donald Trump nor Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are fans of the new congressional sanctions on Russia, particularly because they may hinder attempts at restoring the relationship between the two countries, the top U.S. diplomat admitted…
Scientific American: The world saw headlines about one of the largest icebergs ever calved a few weeks ago. But a smaller one on the other end of the globe might have bigger consequences. The chunk of ice, which broke free…
Mesmerising animation, made by @anttilip, shows how temperatures have changed in each country since 1900. Lots of variations & warming trend pic.twitter.com/EVxakuQ83h — Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) August 1, 2017 Filed under: Crock of the Week…
When the history is written, and I still remain confident it will be written by independent, free historians – the direct line between fossil fuel greed, the Carbon Bubble, and the ongoing attempted Russian coup of the US government will…
ThinkProgress: Two thirds of property buyers in Miami don’t even ask their brokers about “the potential impact of global climate change and sea level rise on the local market,” a new survey finds. Meanwhile, we appear headed toward the worst-case…
How hot was it in Nuuk, Greenland yesterday? So hot, 3 people had to be bumped from my Air Greenland flight because the plane would not have enough lift to carry them. Per Pilot. Climate Central: The Arctic is a…
Washington Post: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, a blind Aboriginal musician renowned for singing in his native Yolngu language with a heart-rending voice, died July 25 in Darwin, Australia. He was 46. His recording label, Darwin-based Skinnyfish Music, announced the death but…
Vladimir Romanovsky, of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is one of my go-to experts on permafrost. What he says in this recent talk is worth your consideration.Filed under: Crock of the Week…
When a series of unusual storms battered the UK in 2014, I profiled it here. New research looking at that year’s events suggests it was not a one-off, but part of the new changed-climate normal for the UK. Above, look…
Don’t mind the funky intro above – I’m still looking for the original BBC piece, but this will do. BBC correspondent and camera were recent visitors to the Black and Bloom camp, which I documented in a video a few…
Al Franken and David Letterman: droll discussion of climate change and democracy. There are several more in this series, see below. Filed under: Crock of the Week…
Click above for larger. Project Midas: On July 12 2017, data from the Sentinel-1 satellite confirmed the calving from the Larsen C Ice Shelf of Iceberg A68, a slab of ice 5,800 km in area and weighing more than 1…
Favorite hobby horse of deniers. Evil scientists adjust temperature measurements to suit their one-world-government agenda. Reality more boring. Fortunately, Berkeley Earth Alumnus Zeke Hausfather is one of our most lucid explainers. Zeke Hausfather in Carbon Brief: These adjustments have long…
Mr. Putin, we do not have Gulags here. Stand by. A wave is coming that will be larger than you can understand. Video at link. Washington Post: Joel Clement was director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S.…
Climate denial is a prison for your mind. More on signs of reluctant awakening to climate threat and renewable solutions among Republicans. Are we seeing something analogous to the national turning on marriage equality of a few years back? or…
New York Times: There is simply no credible way to address climate change without changing the way we get from here to there, meaning cars, trucks, planes and any other gas-guzzling forms of transportation. That is why it is so…
Quick look at what’s going on. My first three days in Greenland were spent in Ilulissat, which is home to one of the world’s fastest flowing Icestreams, which empties into Disko Bay, and, eventually the North Atlantic. It’s been said…
We watched over 8 years as Republicans railed against the Affordable Care Act, promising that they had a ready alternative, if only the bad people would let them enact it. Well, now we see the sham that was. Could something…
"We keep sending bigger ones, and they keep ignoring them" #ActOnClimate #climate #LarsenC #antartica via @NewYorker pic.twitter.com/aAXcyZheh8 — Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) July 14, 2017 Filed under: Crock of the Week…
That big Berg just dropped. Above, I’ve been interviewing ice experts about this over recent months, including Eric Rignot, Jeremy Bassis, and Ted Scambos. They give background detail and implications. Takeaway – not an unexpected or ominous event in itself,…
We should do science more like a game show. Everyone would be dumber, but at least it would improve ratings. MediaMatters: In a February 9 Washington Post op-ed, (Radio Talk show host Hugh) Hewitt suggested that Trump should appoint (Radio…
More relevant than ever, Chairman of the House “Science” Committee, Lamar Smith, lauds Donald Trump as the “only source of unvarnished truth.” Leonard Pitts in the Miami Herald: We have explored the role of social media, the loss of the…
There is a cottage industry online of over-the-top predictions of imminent human extinction from climate change – something I always have pushed back on. To those that warn of imminent human extinction, I say, “We’re not getting off that easy.”…
