Italy is being hit by an economic tsunami caused by the high costs of mineral commodities which is destroying its industrial system and plunging the country in a deeper and deeper crisis. Unfortunately, the Italian government seems to be still… [more]
“WTF” was a pretty typical reaction to video of a newly discovered physical feature on Siberia’s Yamal peninsula last week. A lot of speculation about the crater-like formation has been around the possibility of methane gas release from thawing permafrost.… [more]
Science writer Mason Inman is crowd sourcing The Frack Lab, to help underwrite his reporting on Fracking and exotic fossil fuel production, such as this example. Mason Inman in Scientific American: Shale gas now accounts for half of all U.S.… [more]
g NASA: Now in its third year, the drought in California grows worse with each month. 2013 was the driest calendar year in 119 years of records, and 2014 has not brought much relief, even as scientists and residents wait… [more]
I’ve got a week to review and upgrade my video kit next week’s jump to Greenland, so I spent some welcome time outside over the weekend playing with video cameras and time lapse sequences. Here are some raw results, which… [more]
Predicting global surface temperature changes in the short-term is a challenge for climate models. Temperature changes over periods of a decade or two can be dominated by influences from ocean cycles like El Niño and La Niña. During El Niño… [more]
SkS Highlights
Dana’s Rupert Murdoch doesn’t understand climate change basics, and that’s a problem understandably generated the most comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Is global warming causing extreme weather via jet stream waves? by John Abraham attracted the… [more]
This is a next stage in the display of Earth data with WebGL. It uses the general framework described here. BEST and GISS are temperature anomaly datasets, available on a 2° by 2° grid. In fact, BEST has 1° resolution,… [more]
World Council of Churches, Unitarian Universalists, United Church of Christ, and many smaller/regional church denominations and affiliated organizations have established climate divestment policies. Others are percolating – the Methodists are studying their investment policy, the Presbyterians are first going to… [more]
A reader shares this very cool video. Description: WindStream Technologies, a publicly traded company (WSTI), is proud to introduce the world’s largest hybrid renewable energy project. It was recently commissioned on the rooftop of the prominent law firm, Myers, Fletcher,… [more]
Great graphics to describe why renewables are inevitable, and taking over now. From Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
Jonathan Mann is a Brooklyn resident who writes a song, every day, apparently, and posts to Youtube. The guy is pretty good. You can encourage him here. There’s an angry and confused time traveler Wondering why things had to be… [more]
The post below is the chapter from the BAMS State of the climate 2013, that I author each year.
Full report which is the most comprehensive assessment of climate in 2013.
Alpine Glaciers – Mauri S. Pelto
The World Glacier… [more]
Direct effects from greenhouse gases are playing a significant role in making hot Northern Hemisphere summers more common even as average temperature increases slow down, find Youichi Kamae from the National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan and his colleagues.… [more]
America’s oil consumption is rising, not falling, outpacing China’s
Biodiversity hotspots get hotter (and that’s not good)
Carbon price repeal a victory for fossil fuels, ideologues and climate science denial
Climate scientists see ‘very rapid declines’ in annual NOAA report… [more]
It seems to me that Roger Pielke Jr. is now persona non grata at Nate Silver’s 538 blog. Silver, whose statistics-based predictions of the last presidential election were stunningly accurate, hoped to capitalize on his celebrity by starting a blog… [more]
John Abraham in The Guardian: As I sit here in a northern part of the United States (Minnesota), a rare summer arctic blast barrels down from Canada on what otherwise is one of the warmest days of the year. Global… [more]
More from Rocky Mountain Institute on the Solar juggernaut. A tech revolution moving faster than cell phones.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
This week’s piece about Big Tobacco loving Physicist William Happer sparked some discussions, again, about the eerie affinity climate deniers have for deadly, addictive poison. Go figure. A new friend reminded me of the video above, where Joe Bast, Chief… [more]
Darksnow.org: A large number of uncontrolled fires are burning across the Canadian NWT. The prevailing flow brings some of that smoke to darken Greenland ice. Brian Kahn at Climate Central “The amount of acres burned in the Northwest Territories is… [more]
This article is a reprint of a news release posted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on July 17, 2014.
Increases in temperature, sea level and CO2 observed; Southern Hemisphere warmth and Super Typhoon Haiyan among year’s most notable… [more]
Anita Chowdry is an artist based in London. While many are exploring electronic media and computers, she’s going in the opposite direction, exploring craftsmanship and the hands-on manipulation of matter. I find this exciting, perhaps because I spend most of… [more]
“The climatic changes that may be produced by the increased CO2 content could be deleterious from the point of view of human beings”
- Restoring the Quality of our Environment, 1965 Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel, President’s Science Advisory… [more]
A break from The Deep. In New watch, old watch, still the same I described the truely fascinating tale of me buying a replacement Garmin Forerunner 110. A few weeks ago I was faced with the replacement having the strap… [more]
I subscribe to “Quora,” which is a place where people ask questions and people who believe that they have some subject matter expertise in the area of the question will provide answers. Naturally, you can select areas of interest and… [more]
Huffington Post: “The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” said Princeton University professor William Happer while being interviewed on “Squawk Box” on CNBC. Before host Andrew Ross Sorkin could respond in… [more]
Katie McKissick in Scientific American Blogs: California is in the throes a serious drought, but driving around Los Angeles, you wouldn’t know it. Lush, green lawns. Sprinklers going off in the middle of the afternoon when much of the water… [more]
If you haven’t been following these “rap battles of history”, you’re missing a fun series. Bill Nye’s increase visibility of late has attracted the attention of the late great Sir Isaac. Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
As I sit here in a northern part of the United States (Minnesota), a rare summer arctic blast barrels down from Canada on what otherwise is one of the warmest days of the year. Global warming? I could use some… [more]
In his interview on TV3’s The Nation last weekend David Shearer declared a Labour Party policy on oil and gas drilling which, like the Government’s, fails to confront the reality of climate change. Drilling will continue. The approval processes will… [more]
