Planet3.0 Blogs

Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center: November has been an excellent month for Arctic sea…

Sorry wonks – we still need you – but we need a good story, a good inspiration, a great vision, even more. Rob Meyer in Atlantic: On Monday, speaking at a town hall led by Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative-Elect Alexandria…

I confess, I’m confused by Willis Eschenbach’s latest post at WUWT, titled “Cooling Down the Land.” It begins with this graph (of a mere 18 years’ data): Which makes me wonder, where can I get this CERES global surface temperature…

What is it you c🙀n't face, Donald? #TheSoundOfMueller 🌧🌹🐱🎶🎁🎄 pic.twitter.com/Ape5rsJ5y9 — Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) December 5, 2018 Hot liquids, yada yada. Advertisements…

A new ball game. Almost. Advertisements…

I’m on my way back from Cambridge, where I had a very pleasant evening with our Stoatness. I also happened to have a look at Climate etc., where Judith is promoting a new paper by Peter Tangney, a Lecturer at…

Climate Denial is the Rosetta Stone for understanding today’s toxic politics, including the attacks on democracy happening in Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina today. Paul Krugman in the New York Times: Many observers seem baffled by Republican fealty to Donald…

Despite Republican efforts to hold back the clean energy tide, it keeps rising. Xcel Energy: Denver, Colorado (Dec. 4, 2018)—Xcel Energy, a national leader in renewable energy, rolled out a clean energy vision today in Denver that will deliver 100…

“I don’t believe it,” said Donald Trump when asked about the fourth national climate assessment, authored by 13 government agencies and hundreds of the US’s top climate scientists. His administration had tried to hide the report, publishing it on Black Friday…

San Quintin Glacier in 4-16-2017 Sentinel image, red dots indicate terminus location then. Yellow dots the terminus location  on 11-10-2018. San Quintin Glacier in 3-20-2018 Sentinel image, pink dots indicate terminus position.  San Quintin Glacier in 11-10-2018 Sentinel image. Yellow…

Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review...   Story of the Week... G20 told crucial COP24 climate change conference 'must succeed': Guterres   UN News/Natalia Montagna: Delegates to…

Reprint of article originally posted on UN NEWS on Nov 29, 2018. Click here to access the original. As global temperatures continue to rise, climate action is lagging and the window of opportunity is closing. On Sunday, the United Nations will…

Gary Larson's interpretation of the legend that Queen Marie Antoinette of France proposed that the people of Paris could eat cake when she was told that they had no bread. It highlights the absurdity of a legend which is, nevertheless,…

I’m on the train to Cambridge for a meeting that starts tomorrow. Since I had nothing better to do, I thought I would have a quick look at the RCP8.5 data. There’s been quite a lot of criticism of the…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sunday, Nov 25 through Saturday, Dec. 1 Editor's Pick Climate change signals and impacts continue in 2018     The long-term warming…

Glad somebody did this. Words completely fail me in describing the shear dumbness of the Shill that Chuck Todd decided was the appropriate commentator on the National Climate Assessment. There is a weird talking point going around that temperatures have…

Andrew Sullivan in New York Magazine: I’m relieved, I suppose, that Trump officials didn’t actually suppress, censor, or doctor volume two of the Fourth National Climate Assessment. All they did was release it on the Friday after Thanksgiving, suggesting that…

The largest lithium ion battery in the world, for the moment, is in South Australia, and was constructed in under 100 days by Tesla Corporation, following a twitter bet by controversial CEO Elon Musk. Stumbled on this profile of the…

Can’t we all get along?…

The Seneca Effect illustrated in an image by Roman Pfeffer…

I saw something a while ago that I been thinking about and thought I would write a short post in the hopes of clarifying my understanding (which is sorely lacking). The suggestion was that all those involved with climate change…

South Park creators make belated apology to Al Gore for a decade-old episode that cast him as a crank for warning about the threat of “Man Bear Pig”, a hideous monster. Turns out, as a new episode admits, Man Bear…

Some things I’ve noticed in the news: The Guardian has an excellent essay from the Union of Concerned Scientists. USA Today seems to have pretty good climate coverage overall, including a note about last four years = four hottest years.…

Scott Morrison said school kids wouldn't learn anything from protesting. These students disagreed. pic.twitter.com/93wqKjf5Zi — SBS News (@SBSNews) November 30, 2018 Above, news from SBS (Australia). CNN: Thousands of Australian children skipped school on Friday in defiance of the prime…

Here we go again. It's always emails with these people. First there was "Climategate!" — the misquoting, selective quoting, and uninformed quoting of stolen emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in Great Britain. Emails between…

Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate scientists missed a lot about a quarter century ago when they predicted how bad global warming would be. They missed how bad wildfires, droughts, downpours and hurricanes would get. They missed how much ice…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts  Mankind Decreased takeoff performance of aircraft due to climate change Failure to protect beaches under slowly rising sea level (open access) Heading for the hills: climate-driven community…

Network and cable news programs dropped the ball in their coverage of the new National Climate Assessment – most visibly on the Sunday morning panel shows. That’s the bad news. The good news is, at least they know enough to…

Right-wing panelist on Meet the Press on climate change: "I'm not a scientist … We need to also recognize we had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest…

I’m still recovering from Holidays. Hold on. Advertisements…