Music Break: Tommy Emanuel and Billy Strings – Workin’ Man Blues
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Denigrating "The Limits to Growth" is Still a Popular Pastime. But can we Learn Something From it?
Many people seem to be surprised when I tell them that I follow the abominable science denial blog "Watts Up With That" kept by Alan Watts. Yes, it is abominable, sometimes, but it has one feature that makes it stand… -
Climate Protests Halt Yale – Harvard Game
New York Times: Climate change activists stormed the field at the Yale-Harvard football game on Saturday afternoon, disrupting the game at halftime in a protest to call attention to the universities to divest their investments in fossil fuels. A group… -
Following Massive Fires, Koalas Now “Functionally Extinct”
Climate deniers cheering, I’m sure. If you wondered about what happened to the burned Koala I posted on a few days ago, there’s a follow up above. Forbes: As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along… -
Market Disses Tesla Truck
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South Asia’s Toxic Air
Good, brief explainer of the dynamics behind Asia’s poison air crisis.… -
Kropotkina, Novaya Zemlya Retreat Opens up 12km2 embayment 1988-2019
Kropotkina Glacier, Novaya Zemlya in 1988 and 2019 Landsat images. Red arrow marks the 1988 terminus location and yellow arrow the 2019 terminus location. Point A and B mark nunataks in 1988. Kropotkina Glacier is a tidewater glacier on the… -
Methane
I’ve always been a little confused as to why so much attention is paid to methane emissions. It’s short-lived, so isn’t it maybe somewhat less important that CO2 emissions, which are long-lived? One reason it is quite prominent is because… -
My Mercury News Op-Ed on denial over land use and California wildfires (with a mention of climate change)
Not really about climate change denial, which is a second-degree problem in California, but the Op-Ed opposes dispersed sprawl development in the countryside. And that has a terrible carbon footprint.Link here, and the original text below:Opinion: Primary factor creating wildfire… -
Global Warming Wages War on Christmas
Apparently global warming is now waging war on Chrismas. The town of North Pole, Alaska, had to cancel their yearly “Christmas in Ice” celebration. The reason? Not enough ice.… -
Summer is Coming
Winter is coming to New England, but in Australia, the land down under, December heralds the beginning of summer. As recently as 2013 they suffered through the “angry summer,” bringing Aussies endless problems while breaking the previous continent-wide summer temperature… -
Science and Technology Studies Podcast
I’ve been trying to listen to more podcasts, and came across a new one that might be of interest to my readers. It’s called The Received Wisdom with Shobita Parthasarathy and Jack Stilgoe. Both are researchers in Science and Technology… -
Greta Thunberg’s Tribal Name
Woman who came from the Heavens. Has a ring. Bismark Tribune: When she and Iron Eyes finished speaking, Sioux spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse bestowed a Lakota name upon Thunberg, “maphiyata echiyatan hin win,” which means “woman who came from… -
Koala in Flames: Climate Disaster Animal Vid of the Week
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Tesla Big Battery Getting Bigger
Inkl: MELBOURNE, Australia—The world’s largest battery is about to get even bigger, with Tesla Inc. (TSLA) set to boost the capacity of its southern Australia lithium-ion operation by 50% to provide additional stability to the power grid. Neoen SA (NEOEN.SA),… -
It wasn’t attempted bribery – it was bribery
Republicans claim that Trump's aim of using governmental funding to obtain a fraudulent investigation by a foreign power as a way to skew the 2020 election doesn't matter because the withholding "didn't happen" and the money was released.It did happen.The… -
Ford Jumps in with EV Mustang
New York Times: Ford Motor’s latest offering seems like an oxymoron twice over: It’s a sport utility vehicle that’s electric … that’s a Mustang. It’s also Detroit’s biggest bet yet on a mass-market future for battery-powered cars. The big automakers… -
Flat Earthers Pick up Support Around the Globe
Flat Earth movement apparently has some “influential minds”. What does that even mean? We live in the age of science denial, and we’d better figure out how to cure that disease. CNN: (CNN)”I don’t want to be a flat Earther,”… -
Melting Arctic Waking Dormant Diseases
Above – Anthrax from melting permafrost. Below, exotic viruses spreading in newly opened waterways. Science Daily: Scientists have linked the decline in Arctic sea ice to the emergence of a deadly virus that could threaten marine mammals in the North… -
Big Mac does Big Wind
CNBC: McDonald’s has inked two power purchase agreements which will see the fast food giant buy renewable energy generated by wind and solar projects in Texas. In an announcement Thursday McDonald’s described the agreements as “long term” and “large scale.” Construction… -
PBS: Kernza for Climate and Soil
Description: Scientists in Minnesota and Kansas are developing a grain called Kernza, which, unlike most of our food crops, is a perennial plant with a whole host of environmental benefits. While it’s still far from hitting the market widely, food… -
Greenland May Lose Airport to Warming, Permafrost Melt
Arctic infrastructure depends on the solid surface provided by permafrost. But what happens when that formerly reliable foundation begins to melt due to climate warming? Potential to lose not only an airport, but important staging area for scientists working on… -
What 2 Degrees Looks Like
Robbie Andrew at CICERO: We have a big challenge ahead of us if we are to hold global warming to under 2°C. This is largely because we have already used up most of our collective ‘carbon budget’. The amount that… -
Climategate, 10 Years Later: What Can we Learn About it from Memetics?
Ten years ago, on November 20th, 2009, the "Climategate" story broke into the news, worldwide. At the beginning, it seemed to be just part of the heated debate on climate. Then, its true character appeared more clearly: it was a… -
Steffen Glacier, Chile Calving Retreat Acceleration 2019
Steffen Glacier in 1987 and 2019 Landsat images. Red arrow is 1987 terminus location, green arrow 2015 terminus location, yellow arrow 2019 terminus location, orange arrow an area of expanding debris cover and the pink arrow locations indicating water level… -
Escanaba in da Sunlight: Solar in the Great North
I spent a few days in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for a talk on Solar Energy, then ran down to Northern Central Michigan College in Petoskey for a Climate presentation. All just in time to get hammered by the latest polar… -
Climate Disruption Animal Video of the Week: Cows in Chaos
Today: It turns out the massive storm surge from Hurricane Dorian didn’t entirely wipe out the wild horses and cows that lived on North Carolina’s Cedar Island when it made landfall in September. Three of the wild cows simply changed… -
Climategate
Climategate is a topic I’ve rarely discussed on this blog. Mostly because it’s clear that it’s not possible to have a constructive discussion with those who have different views about its significance. However, since I watched the BBC show about… -
Back to Basic Climate Denial
Thomas K. Bjorklund has a post at WUWT which tells us a lot about the level of “science” at that blog. He reveals his theme early: The discussion below of the first derivative of a temperature anomaly trendline shows the… -
Ohio Snowflakes Seek Safe Space from Science
WKRC Cincinnati: COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKRC) – Ohio lawmakers are weighing in on how public schools can teach things like evolution. The Ohio House on Wednesday passed the “Student Religious Liberties Act.” Under the law, students can’t be penalized if their…