Planet3.0 Blogs

The folks at the “Doomstead Diner” have been very active in various fields related to a a vision they have of the future that – as you may understand from the name of the blog – is not so rosy.… [more]

Yay, more nonsense about sea ice: the traditional “US Navy predicts summer ice free Arctic by 201x”, where this time x=6. Does anyone actually believe this rubbish? If so, I have money just sitting around, bored, twiddling its little green… [more]

Above, Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers, and Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground and the Weather Channel, on jetstream changes that may be responsible for changes in extreme weather events in the temperate zones. Dr. Francis has a new paper… [more]

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Information is not Knowledge…Knowledge is not WisdomDecember 8, 2013 Chuckles, COP19, GCF, WTO,… [more]

Just for a laugh. I can’t wait for cyclone Ian Plimer, Chris Monckton or Climate crap Tony…Filed under: Blogging… [more]

Unseasonably warm falls keep pushing back the season for the “Where’s global warming” spots on Fox News.  F-4 Tornadoes in November tend to mitigate against the popular right wing meme. But now we’re actually getting some winter weather, look for… [more]

Icon of the Great Folk Scare of the 1960s, Dave Van Ronk, does his signature piece. Reportedly, Van Ronk  was the inspiration for the Coen Brother’s new film.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]

When they’ve had a chance to live around wind turbines, and find out that they are quiet, clean, do not cause headaches, or herpes, as windbaggers claim – they quickly figure out who’s been lying to them. Renewables International: A… [more]

Guest post by Hans Custers. Cross-posted at Planet3.  Nederlandse versie hier.
Fallacies of risk
We, humans, are not very good at estimating and weighing risks. Looking at the definition of risk, this is not so strange:
Risk = Probability *… [more]

I try to focus on serious problems in this blog, mostly environmental issues and the attempt to develop ‘green mathematics’. But I seem unable to resist talking about random fun stuff now and then. For example, the Lebesgue universal covering… [more]

As I stated in the end of the post, Retail shopping; does it really help local economies? more to follow.
Initially, the focus of this post is what drove me to write on the subject, but the first post was… [more]

A trick question, of course. The answer is “the author of a blog post at WUWT entitled IPCC’s Report on Climate Change: Myths & Realities“. The blog posting itself is a more-than-usually-pointless mish-mash of nonsense, and isn’t worth reading. I… [more]

A newish Inquiring Minds podcast by Mooney and Viskontas features a good dialogue between Stephan Lewandowsky and Dan Kahan. Eli and yours truly haven’t been all that persuaded with Kahan’s interpretation of his own work, which is very critical of… [more]

23 November 2013 (The Economist) – Humans, being a terrestrial species, are pleased to call their home “Earth”. A more honest name might be “Sea”, as more than seven-tenths of the planet’s surface is covered with salt water. Moreover, this… [more]

By Laura Beans 6 December 2013 (EcoNews) – New data pointing to a dramatic rise in polar bear hunting surfaced this week as the biennial meeting of the international Polar Bear Agreement kicked off in Moscow, Russia. Clearly, climate change… [more]

How might Arctic data, such as the iconic datasets followed so closely on this blog, be made easier to access and use? In connection with a new project called the Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN), I’d like to collect your… [more]

SkS Highlights
Climate Change: Years of Living Dangerously by Rob Painting is about the new television series on climate change being made by for the U.S. Showtime cable televison network. The series, produced by Hollywood heavyweights James Cameron and Jerry Weintrub, examines the… [more]

Guest post by Max IaconoOne of modern history’s greatest figures has just died.  I tried to understand in a simplified -and by necessity highly reduced and summary manner- (for myself)  what was at the root of his greatness and success… [more]

Guest post by Max IaconoIn this post, Iacono argues that we missed our “appointment with history” because we don’t have an appropriate governance system able to act in view of the climate crisis.  (image source)The well known Italian journalist Oriana… [more]

Reposting because in the space of the last few days, this video, posted just before Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, has become my most watched video, closing in on 100,000 views. Right. Not exactly Gagnam Style, or even cute kitten… [more]

UPDATE: If Tom Waits is too harsh, try this much smoother, but no less soulful, version by one of my favorite folky groups, the Spring Standards: Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]

7 December 2013 (OCHA) – According to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), approximately 4 million people remain displaced as a result of Typhoon Haiyan, including 94,310 people living in 385 evacuation centres (ECs). The number of people… [more]

The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism has been translated into 18 languages. The latest translation is Swedish. Many thanks to Katarina Kaudern for her work translating the guide and to Emma Andersson and Ole Martin Christensen for proofreading it.
Note… [more]

In the science and nature section of your local bookstore, if you still have a local bookstore, there are plenty of good books about climate change.
The best-known options of the past few years includes scientists’ takes on the science… [more]

By  Mark Schleifstein6 December 2013 (The Times-Picayune) – The extensive damage caused by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the ensuing cleanup efforts to natural resources along the shoreline and in deepwater habitats of the Gulf of Mexico were… [more]

Go figure. Major corporations way ahead of the Tea Party base (I am shocked, shocked….). Getting ready, and in some cases, actually imposing their own carbon limits – to make themselves more competitive. NYTimes: The development is a striking departure… [more]

By Seth Koenig, BDN Staff3 December 2013 PORTLAND, Maine – Northeastern regulators shut down the Gulf of Maine shrimp fishery for the first time in 35 years Tuesday afternoon, worried by reports of what researchers called a fully “collapsed” stock… [more]

New Scientist: An ominous cloud rises over Superman’s icy man cave, the Fortress of Solitude, perhaps indicating that Lex Luthor is up to his dastardly tricks again. Actually, it is completely natural, and nothing to do with supervillain antics. It… [more]

1 November 2013 (CIRES) – In an example of the challenges water-strapped Western cities will face in a warming world, new research shows that every degree Fahrenheit of warming in the Salt Lake City region could mean a 1.8 to… [more]

11 November 2013 (NOAA/NCDC) – The Alaska statewide average temperature during October 2013 was 8.8°F above the 1971-2000 average marking its warmest October on record in the 95-year period of record. The previous record warm October occurred in 1925, when… [more]