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In the wake of President Obama’s emphatic call for action on climate change in his State of the Union Address, and clear polling numbers showing new public concerns about climate – GOP presidential hopefuls are taking steps to obfuscate their…

Lys Glacier drains south from Lyskamm in the Monta Rosa Group of Italy.  This glacier has a long history of observations that have indicated two short term advances in the 20th century 1912-21 and 1973-85 amidst a broader retreat.  The…

Of all the visuals I typically present in my dog-and-pony shows on the road, the most stunning and convincing is this animation from NOAA. What it shows is that, as incredible as the loss of Arctic sea ice extent has…

Above, Steven Colbert on the “I’m not a scientist” approach to climate denial.  This kind of ridicule of an obviously dopey dodge has made climate denying politicians increasingly uncomfortable and looking for pathways to thread a difficult path between a…

Guestpost by Bart Strengers. Originally appeared as a news item on the PBL website. Late 2009, in the run-up to the international climate conference in Copenhagen, PBL climate researcher Bart Strengers had an online discussion with climate sceptic Hans Labohm…

Al Gore: oil companies 'use our atmosphere as an open sewer' Climate change researcher to sit with first lady at SOTU Food diversity under siege from global warming, U.N. says Former Saudi oil boss says it can handle low price…

One of the bunnies points to an interesting post at Naked Capitalism, indicating the travails of a paper submitted to an editor in chief, one of Ethons favorite bites, the good Professor Richard Tol.  Now some, not Eli to be…

A paper recently appeared in the open access peer-reviewed journal PeerJ titled Lung cancer incidence decreases with elevation: evidence for oxygen as an inhaled carcinogen. It makes the hard-to-believe claim that the oxygen we breathe is a cause of lung…

Image from http://www.climateandfish.eu/default.asp?ZNT=S0T1O-1P192Once you start looking for "Seneca Cliffs" in the exploitation of natural resources, you find them all over the scientific literature. This is my latest find of a production curve where decline is much more rapid than growth:…

Amateurs are the people who do something for the love of it, without getting paid for it.  I get paid for doing what I love, so don't get to be called an amateur*.  One of my favorite amateurs on climate…

If you’ve missed the other segments of our interview with Glaciologist Eric Rignot – do not, repeat, do not, miss this one. Rignot was a co-author of the “holy shit moment” paper from last spring, showing that large areas of…

President Obama’s aggressive stance on climate displayed in the State of the Union address is more evidence that Climate will no longer be a side issue in future Presidential campaigns. Now, while sounding out the potential for a White House…

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No longer just a war on science. Tip to Climate Deniers. In the war between you and reality, in the long run, the smart money will be on…

There is much ado at Tannochbrae Manor, because the Laird has once again disproved global warming. One equation is all it takes! And an article in a new Chinese science journal with some friends, and lo! Take away that inappropriate…

Ocean heat content data to a depth of 2,000 meters, from NOAA. Wow, was this a bad year for those who deny the reality and the significance of human-induced climate change. Of course, there were the recent flurry of reports…

I thought I ought to share a recent incoming email with the world... I know this is a widespread problem, but the coincidence of this appearing just as I was thinking about Gerlich, Tscheuschner and Monckton made posting this one…

Marcus Kracht alerted me of this recent post of his after he had read my post with a similar title, "Where have our dreams gone?". So, I am publishing it here with his kind permissionThe bear went over the mountain,The…

No, I'm not talking about how last year was the hottest (globally) on record. It's been almost two years since my last post here, but I'm intending to end the silence. I have actually been doing a lot of reading…

I was at an American Wind Energy event yesterday in Lansing Mi, listened to a lot of industry and utility folks describe how they are integrating wind into their systems. Nutshell takeaway: Coal – less. Wind – More. Solar –…

This post is partly following a comment by Carrick on acceleration in time series. We talk a lot about trends, using them in effect as an estimate of derivative. They are a pretty crude estimate, and I have long thought…

Literally today's king tides - they're happening this week and people are encouraged to go out and document what sea level will be bringing us at some future point, so off I went on my bicycle this morning to snap…

Have you ever watched a zombie movie and wondered if the protagonists will grow physically tired from having to repeatedly kill zombies that inevitably rise once again from the dead? That’s how people often feel when confronted with climate change…

Above, the passage in President Obama’s State of the Union address devoted to climate change.  The White House broadcast included a split screen with graphics illustrating the President’s points. The section, which came towards the end of the address: And…

2014 as a record warm year has been in the news lately. I made plots of the progress of the current "record year" in each of the usual datasets (as plotted here). Each rectangle shows on left, the height of…

Shamelessly stolen from ATTP’s “More than half” is the same as “50%”!, but I think this captures brilliantly a typical argument with the “skeptics”: TPP has a link to the interesting story of Alfred Russel Wallace‘s bet with the…

The Newest “This is Not Cool” video from Yale Climate Connections is a snapshot of interviews from last month’s Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Weeks before the official announcement, scientists gathered at the annual American…

Both NASA and NOAA report 2014 as the hottest year on record. Despite the new #1, neither the news itself nor the response to it has surprised me. The news that last year was so hot is certainly no surprise.…

Verra Grande flows south from Breithorn, in the Monta Rosa group of Italy. The glacier is 3.5 km long extending from 4000-2700 m. Carnielli (2005) noted that this glacier retreated 816 meters from 1914 to 2001.  There were two period…

“We started in the early 1990s to see if there was anything happening, and I think we’ve been going thru discoveries and discoveries, – each time, going, – wow.” Glaciologist Eric Rignot interviewed by John Cook at the American Geophysical…

The creeping bloodbath in the Oil industry continues.  I’ve pointed out that, ever since the Saudis moved to encourage the recent oil price drop, a whole lot of people that had been creating headaches for Barack Obama started to feel…