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Climate scepticism in the UK
I came across a book called Climate Change Scepticism: A transnational ecocritical analysis, by Greg Garrard, Axel Goodbody, George Handley, and Stéphanie Posthumus. The reason I found it interesting is that it includes a chapter on Climate Scepticism in the… -
“Methane Bomb” Row Continues
I posted a clip from my interview with Mike Mann over the weekend, in regard to the “methane bomb” madness – Mike agrees with mainstream science that this particular doomsday scenario is overblown – a lot of folks mad at… -
What’s Emperor Trump Doing? He is Busy at Splitting the Empire in Two
Donald Trump seems to be doing what Roman Emperors like Diocletian, Constantine, and Theodosius did long ago: splitting the empire into two halves. Trump may not have consciously decided to do that, but an Empire can only be as large… -
PIOMAS February 2019
It was a long wait, what with the US government shutdown and a new year requiring spreadsheet updates, but here is the first PIOMAS update of 2019. ----- Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea… -
On Buying Insurance, and Ignoring Cost-Benefit Analysis
This is a re-post from TripleCrisis by economist Frank Ackerman First in a series of posts on climate policy. The damages expected from climate change seem to get worse with each new study. Reports from the IPCC and the U.S. Global Change Research Project,… -
Tale of Two Ohio Counties
Above, the Weather Channel’s Kait Parker did an investigation of anti-wind activists in Ohio. Below, update on how anti-winders have succeeded in degrading the credit rating of at least one county. Checks and Balances Project: This is a tale of… -
The Dodo: Rescuing Camp Fire Cats
This guy just keeps rescuing cats who got lost in the wildfire months ago 🙌 pic.twitter.com/qkd93ibmlS — The Dodo (@dodo) February 9, 2019 “The Dodo” is one of my not-so-guilty twitter habits. We going to spend the rest of our… -
Maher: No, Both Sides Don’t do It
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The Green New Deal
David Appell on the Green New deal: I wish it was only about carbon without the social welfare proposals, such as (G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mobilization creates high-quality union jobs that pay prevailing wages…. (H) guaranteeing a… -
2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Feb 3 through Sat, Feb 10, 2019 Editor's Pick Seven take-aways from the Green New Deal launch Sweeping in scope, an… -
Mike Mann on the Arctic “Methane Bomb”
Well, I didn’t get into this to make friends – but one of the benefits of this work is that, over the last dozen years, I’ve come to know a number of the most well known experts in a variety… -
Music Break: Artists and Wind Turbines
I don’t speak French, so I hope they’re saying nice things about wind turbines. And how did they mic those instruments to dampen the wind noise? After I posted my piece “Wind Turbines are Beautiful”, someone sent me this link.… -
Cachalote Glacier, Chile Retreats From Lake and Separates
Cachalote Glacier in a 1984 Landsat image and 2019 Sentinel Image. Red arrow is 1984 terminus location, yellow arrow the 2019 terminus location and the pink arrow a tributary to the glacier in 1984 that separates. Cachalote Glacier is on… -
Making Tracks in the US
So with the Green New Deal on the street there is considerable talk about improving railroad travel. Eli has a couple of perhaps odd points to make.First high density is NOT something that is needed for fast trains, as a… -
A (Qualified) Physician Weighs in on Wind Turbines and Health
Dr Jeffrey Ellenbogen is a certified Neurologist who specializes in acoustics and the health impacts of sound on human bodies. He was 6 years director of the Harvard/Mass General Sleep lab, and a Professor at Harvard Medical School. He was… -
The Sower’s Strategy: Norway Leads the Way Toward the Energy Transition
This is me, Ugo Bardi, in Oslo, February 2019. Norway is the country with the largest fraction of electric vehicles in the world. The Tesla in the background is not mine. I gave the name of "The Sower's Strategy" or "The… -
Global Cooling
The Hadley Centre/Climate Research Unit in the U.K. has joined NASA, NOAA, and Berkeley Earth, in reporting 2018 as the 4th-hottest year on record, with the five hottest years being the last five years. David Whitehouse of the “Global Warming… -
Methane Video Provokes Thoughtful Discussion
Some of the kinder things that have been directed at me, and the scientists interviewed in the most recent This is Not Cool video. Frozen Earth: Several high–profile voices from David Attenborough and Stephen Hawking to scientists and world leaders… -
About those Energy Subsidies..
Criss Crossing the state to listen in on the orchestrated theater that is the anti-wind movement, perhaps the one bogus argument heard more than any other is the complaint that renewable energy only exists because of subsidies. Above, History channel… -
New research, January 28 – February 3, 2019
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts Mankind Historical Analysis of U.S. Tornado Fatalities (1808-2017): Population, Science and Technology (open access) Climate Change and Psychology: Effects of Rapid Global Warming on Violence and Aggression… -
It’s perfectly fine to talk on a cell phone in an elevator
I have climate-related tabs piling up on my browser that I wanted to blog about, but felt I had to start with the important and pressing issue in the headline, first.Mainly, the time spent in an elevator is brief and… -
Wind Turbines Are Beautiful
On the occasion of the approval for what looks like the largest Wind park in Michigan, almost 400 MW – I wrote an op-ed for the Mt Pleasant, MI newspaper. Mt Pleasant Morning Sun: Are wind turbines beautiful? I think… -
Return of the Methane Bomb Squad
My most recent video has been extremely controversial and I’ve gotten a lot of blowback – in short, because the message is, “no, we’re not all going to imminently die, so chill out, we have work to do.” I push… -
Common ground?
Judith Curry testified before the US House of Representatives. You can read her evidence and post. In a follow up post Judith suggests that there is some common ground that we can build on. I’m not really convinced that there… -
NASA Releases Temp Data for 2018
NASA: Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Global temperatures in 2018 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) warmer than… -
Open Letter to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Dear Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, I know you represent the 14th district of New York, and that tending to their needs and hopes is your first responsibility. But I want you to know, you represent me too. You represent all who are… -
EV’s: Crucial to Reducing CO2 Emissions
In June 1988 a leading climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, presented the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with data showing that by burning fossil fuels humans had created a greenhouse effect, evidenced by global warming. Unless carbon dioxide (CO2)… -
Renewables Role in the Vortex Crisis
Jessica Hellman, Ellen Anderson, and Sabine Engel in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Last week was a tough one for Minnesotans. Exceptionally cold weather tested our infrastructure and revealed some of our vulnerabilities and strengths. In “Cold snap shows reliable energy… -
As the World Burns, Trump Speech Ignores Climate
This President is a Russian hoax. Stephen Stromberg in the Washington Post: Trump did not even mention many of the country’s biggest problems — some of the ticking time bombs that the baby boomers are leaving behind after changing the…