Planet3.0 Blogs

NOAA provides an excellent website for acquiring and examining sea level data from tide gauges. It includes maps with which one can select individual stations, but which also show the rate of sea level rise based on fitting a linear…

There’s been a lengthy Twitter exchange about the Harvey et al. paper. In case you don’t remember, it was a paper essentially arguing that those blogs that tend to be dismissive of the risks associated with anthropogenic global warming (AGW)…

Above, creative explanation of the Coriolis effect from the Bell Telephone Science hour, 1958. Co·ri·o·lis ef·fect ˌkôrēˈōləs iˌfekt an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force ) acting perpendicular to the direction…

Melting time lapse of the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. Over just 7 years. credit to James Balog @EarthVisionInst pic.twitter.com/qdAqzSaMPW — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 14, 2018…

Description: The battle between ​evangelical Christians in the US over whether climate change is a call to protect the Earth, the work of God to be welcomed, or doesn’t exist at all.  Evangelicals in the US have traditionally been the…

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Terrible news for a good name. I hate these bastards.…

From NBC news on the first Earth Day. Advertisements…

Something made me rethink of some events which took place during the 2nd World War. In October 1940, Benito Mussolini, the leader of the Italian government, had ordered an attack on Greece. We don't know what went on inside Mussolini's…

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I’ve posted Alan Savory’s talk before – he advocates grazing practices that he claims can save soils and sequester carbon. He has many critics.  Recent research, while not going as far as Savory – does support the idea at least…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Avoid Gulf stream disruption at all costs, scientists warn How close the world is to a catastrophic collapse of giant ocean…

Eclectablog: Last week, 550 gallons of coolant containing the carcinogenic solvent benzene were released into Lake Michigan from an electrical transmission cable running under the Straits of Mackinac. It happened because a ship went through the Straits dragging its anchor.…

Turns out today is the fifth anniversary of me starting this blog. It’s been an interesting journey and I feel that I should reflect on what I’ve done, what I’ve learned, what I would have done differently, and what I’m…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts Mankind 1. Vulnerabilities and resilience of European power generation to 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C warming (open access) "Results show that climate change has negative impacts on electricity production…

Pico Alto Glacier, Chile in 1986 and 2017 Landsat images indicating the retreat.  Red arrow indciates 1986 terminus, yellow arrow the 2017 terminus,and purple dots the snowline.  Pico Alto Glacier, Chile drains north from the Argentina-Chile border entering the Rio…

Something made me think that it could be appropriate to repropose here a post that I published on Cassandra's Legacy in 2015 on the "false flag" operation that the Mussolini government mounted in 1940 in order to justify the Italian…

At the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, 20+ thousand earth scientists were in a pretty bleak mood following the election of the most science-hostile administration in history. California Governor Jerry Brown brought them to their feet…

Washington Post: The Atlantic Ocean circulation that carries warmth into the Northern Hemisphere’s high latitudes is slowing down because of climate change, a team of scientists asserted Wednesday, suggesting one of the most feared consequences is already coming to pass.…

I’ve recently come across a number of examples of people objecting to the manner in which some people engage in public criticism. There is a podcast with Sam Harris and Ezra Klein. It relates to a situation in which a…

Lonnie Thompson, a climate scientist, was told by his doctor that he needed a heart transplant. He denied it. “You’re crazy! I’ve been climbing the highest mountains in the world for…” he paused, mentally counted the decades. Lonnie loved his…

Can we get back to “Don’t be Evil”? Fast Company: You have to see Apple’s Reno, Nevada, data center from the inside to truly understand how huge it is. It’s made up of five long white buildings sitting side by…

So many now it’s hard to keep track. Inside Climate News helps. Inside Climate News: The storm of litigation could have a broad impact if it succeeds in holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the kinds of damages they foresaw…

Move over, Quinoa. Ellen Abrams, University of Michigan: Agriculture is responsible for 70 percent of global freshwater consumption, in large part due to our prevailing agricultural model based on monoculture of annual crops. This strategy requires annual tilling, which damages…

Something made me go back to this post that I wrote two years ago. And some things I wrote at that time look to me even too much prophetic today. So, here it is again (with some minor modifications)The Empire…

Mityushikha Ice Cap (M) and West Mityushikha Ice Cap (WM) arrows indicating locations of glacier  separation or glacier margin change.  Mityushikha Ice Caps are a group of small ice caps near the southern end of the glaciated mountains of Novaya…

Before there was the Apple II, there was Teapot Apple 2. Things that current events have me pondering. Wiki: The Civil Defense Apple-2 shot on 5 May 1955 was intended to test various building construction types in a nuclear blast.…

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The Darkness is filled with life and light. Video above is fascinating, and touches on how the marine ecosystem may be affected by changing climate and loss of sea ice. Below, David Barber of the University of Manitoba fleshed some…

Come On: Capitalism, Short-termism and the Destruction of the Planet. A new Report from the Club of Rome. By Ernst von Weizsaecker and Anders Wijkman -  Book Review by Ugo Bardi Nearly half a century has passed since the publication,…