Planet3.0 Blogs

Climate denial social media offensive follows the same format we saw during the California fire season – with a new wrinkle. THE FACT: Fire services in Australia do regular burns to control brush build up and deprive fires of ready…

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Fresh and early in January, I received a very sportsmanlike and courteous email from climate skeptic David Evans, congratulating me for winning the ten-year climate bet we have and asking for arrangements to pay the $1500. Quite a contrast to…

Some people have wondered about the trend in Australia’s summertime daily high temperatures. The last post discussed Australia’s hottest summer (the latest) and Jennifer Marohasy’s attempt to pervert the truth. But I didn’t talk about the trend, which must have…

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It’s not going to be enough, but around the world, people are stepping in to help.…

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Science Alert: A swath of the Pacific Ocean larger than New South Wales is heating up, and fast. About 800 kilometres (497 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island, near the Chatham Islands, ocean temperatures have spiked to almost 6…

Supply Side How are we doing with CO2 emissions? It's an important question, increasingly posed to a mixed bag of CO2 contributors who may or may not provide accurate reportage. Liu et al present a new, additional means of measurement…

Some of the Lawyers Guns and Money blog authors are very good,* and all of them AFAICT range from very liberal to socialist. It says something that Robert Farley, LGM's national security expert, isn't quite ready to call taking out…

Michael Mann PhD in the Guardian: After years studying the climate, my work has brought me to Sydney where I’m studying the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events. Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity…

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High on the list for a (fingers crossed) new congress and President should be campaign finance reform. Karin Kirk at Yale Climate Connections: Corporations, special interest groups, and individuals inject billions of dollars into the American political system every year.…

North 9 October – morning anchor Holmiabukta We motored out of Lilliehöökbreen that night [maybe the night of the 8th?], moving through the fjord while we had dinner and then onto the […]…

Ant Pruitt featured some of my work in the Hands on Photography Podcast! Episode 10…

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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Daniel Grossman It was a grim day in Moscow on July 25, 2010. The English-language Moscow Times reported that the Russian capital had broken the 1936 temperature record for July: 98 degrees Fahrenheit. That…

I thought I would follow up yesterday’s post with one that highlights another paper that looks at CMIP6 climate sensitivity. It’s a paper by Femke Nijsse, and colleagues, and considers [a]n emergent constraint on Transient Climate Response from simulated historical…

One of the things making wildfire/bushfire worse, contributing to the current conflagration in Australia, is the increase of daily high temperatures. It increases the Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD), the difference between how much water vapor the air can hold and…

Above, you can see an amazing clip from the 2001 movie by Ermanno Olmi "The Profession of Arms". It is the story of the march on Rome of the German Landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg in 1526. They were…

Time: $300 billion. That’s the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists. It’s the gross domestic product of Chile, or…

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Sona Glacier (SG) and Meola Glacier (MG) in 1993 and 2019 Landsat images. Red arrow indicates 1993 terminus location of Sona Glacier and Yellow arrow the 2019 terminus location.  The orange arrow marks the 1993 downglacier limit of clean ice,…

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Dangerous climate change is here now. Mike Mann is, by chance, on sabbatical in Australia and has a front row seat to an unfolding disaster. Below, reposting Kevin Trenberth’s explanation of how heat builds in a drought. Meanwhile, Surfing champion…

A reader asked that I estimate the trend in the JRA-55 data for global temperature, because it is touted by climate deniers Patrick Michaels and Ryan Maue. Let’s have a look. Here’s the data: These aren’t observed data, they’re reanalysis…

Now up to a billion dead animals. Climate deniers cheering. Good job, humans.…

Anyone who is aware of what’s going on in climate science should have heard that the latest generation of climate models, known as CMIP6, seem to be suggesting a somewhat higher climate sensitivity than suggested by the previous CMIP5 models.…

CBS News: PORT ARTHUR, Texas — As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile “spine” of concrete seawalls,…

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