Any given time series, say July average temperature in the Moscow region since 1881, might exhibit both short-term (more brief) and long-term (more lasting) patterns of change. The longer-term is certainly something worth knowing about. It might be increasing, or… [more]
Critical battle won against yet another Koch funded “think” tank. Significant because it involves the attempt too use the Freedom of Information Act as a bludgeon against free thought and inquiry. Rick Piltz has a good wrap with links at… [more]
[Heads up for the overly sensitive: I'm going to talk about pee, piss, taking a leak, and other euphemisms for urine and urination. But hey, you all do it.]
Man urinates in reservoir, “ruins” 38M gallons of water.
That was… [more]
A paper published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B by the University of Waterloo’s Qing-Bin Lu last year claimed that solar activity and human chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) emissions, not carbon emissions, could explain the observed global warming over the… [more]
The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 87
Table of Contents
Chapter 89
Chapter 88
Going North, June 15, 2060
I was worried about going North and leaving Edie alone while she was pregnant.
She had another opinion. “Don’t be… [more]
Aneto Glacier in the Pyrenees of Spain is listed as its largest glacier in a 1984 inventory. In 1984 the glacier had an area of 1.32 square kilometers and a length of 1.6 km (Serrat and Ventura, 2005). The glacier… [more]
I have collected a couple of interesting news articles and interviews over the past few weeks, and now it's time to share with those of you who haven't seen them. I'm posting what I found the most interesting excerpts, follow… [more]
ATI vs. Rector was the case where the American Traditions Institute sued UVa to gain access to Michael Mann’s Emails. In a surprising (to Eli) and sensible decision, the Virginia Supreme Court came down with a major decision for academics… [more]
by Simon Donner
Cherry trees blossomed in Vancouver in early February during 2009-10 El Nino
Long-term forecasts say El Nino could be on the way.
This periodic climate warming of parts of the equatorial Pacific Ocean can affect weather around… [more]
Kathryn Ryan’s interview earlier this week with Michael Eckhart, Managing Director and Global Head of Environmental Finance and Sustainability at the giant investment bank Citigroup was arresting. He was in New Zealand as a keynote speaker at the Wind Energy… [more]
William decided not to waste making a comment when he could write a post instead speculating on why the denialati do what they do, and I’ve decided to do the same.He thinks they’re incompetent at the science so they deny… [more]
My previous post Policy? trailed off in the comments in a variety of odd directions, as long comment threads are wont to. So I’ll offer you this quote:
For there are some people on the left who keep insisting that… [more]
Dr. Joe Romm reports on a new study that provides more detail on the drying of the western US, this winter’s Polar Vortex, and the “Warm Arctic, Cold Continents” paradox. As readers here know, the hottest debate in atmospheric science… [more]
EarthFamilyAlpha: In Austin, Texas, Austin Energy is poised such that by the end of next year, 1 in 3 Kwhs used by the customers of the 8th largest public utility in the country will be renewable. And when you include… [more]
Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
Neela Banerjee in the LATimes; Drilling operations at several natural gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania released methane into the atmosphere at rates that were 100 to 1,000 times greater than federal regulators had estimated, new research shows. Using a plane… [more]
Amway is an American institution, one of the first and most profitable of the multi-level marketing schemes, where what is really being sold is participation in the scheme not so much the products and the focus is on motivation, but… [more]
by Meghan Beamish
From my 81 year old Grandma to rugged old juniper trees, those who have been living for a long time can teach us a lot. Examining the past is critical for understanding our current climate and making… [more]
As you probably know, the scholarly publisher “Frontiers” recently decided to retract an already approved and published paper (“Recursive Fury”) on the subject of conspiratorial attitudes in the debate on climate change. This action prompted the resignation of some of… [more]
update: I got P3′d.
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I’m always interested when a mainstream economist pipes up about growth vs degrowth. As the wikipedia page says, degrowth is a `political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics and anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideas’.… [more]
This is a guest post from Narahani.
Or is happening and is good for you, or has stopped happening, or is caused by CO2 but only a little, or is about to reverse due to lots of yet-to-be-discovered negative… [more]
Above, more from Jim Byrne’s interview with Lord Nicholas Stern, on the risks inherent in fossil fuel investments. BBC: A number of studies in recent years have warned that stock markets around the world have overvalued companies with large holdings… [more]
The well known climate denial canard – “There has been no warming in x years”, derives from the gigantic el nino event of 1998. In El Nino events, warm water from the western Pacific spreads across to the eastern Pacific… [more]
Senator Charles Grassley is known to be a long time fiscal conservative Republican Senator from Iowa. Obviously, the size and scope of the Iowa wind industry belies the anti-renewable propaganda of the science denial right. In speaking up this way,… [more]
As expected, the New Zealand government’s response to the IPCC’s Working Group 3 report on mitigating climate change pays lip service to the science, while maintaining that NZ is doing all that can be expected. Climate change minister Tim Groser’s… [more]
Like everyone else I’m trying to figure out what’s going on in Putin’s head. He assembles the military force to conduct an invasion of Ukraine and then sits there, giving Ukraine’s sad-sack military six weeks and counting to get ready.… [more]
ICE/ISEE3 International Cometary Explorer-International Sun Earth Explorer was launched in 1978 to explore the magnetosphere-solar wind interactions and repurposed in 1982 to visit Comet Giacobini-Zinner. A reasonably close approach to Halley yielded more information, and like the little engine that… [more]
As some bunnies have noticed recursive fury has broken out about Recursive Fury. There are long threads at Shaping Tomorrow’s World, where Stephan Lewandowsky hangs out, the blog of the publishers Frontiers and at Retraction Watch.Eli would like to make… [more]
Averting catastrophe is eminently affordable
Climate experts sound the alarm
Climate protection a ‘task that can be solved’
Climate report finds UN emissions target not out of reach
IPCC report summary censored by governments around the world
‘Modest hope’ to… [more]
Above – ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas provides this map of Locational Marginal Pricing of electricity (MWH) across its service area. Note prices of electricity are color coded. Now note the bright red/orange blob across the west Texas Oil… [more]
