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Tag Line I’ll take the specialist, please. Elevator Statement Your child has an eye injury and needs a doctor. Who are you going to call? A Ph.D. in chemistry? No, you need a medical doctor. A family-practice medical doctor? No,…

I’ll be heading to Greenland next month, first stop, Ilulissat. Ilulissat is at the mouth of the fiord where Jacobshaven glacier, the world’s fastest moving ice stream, is pouring icebergs in to the sea.  Most of the cool visuals you…

Long article here, worth reading the whole thing at the link. Seth Miller in Medium: The Keystone XL will go down as the world’s last great fossil fuels infrastructure project. TransCanada, the pipeline’s operator, charged about $10 per barrel for…

Above, my interview 2 years ago with Keith Schneider, long time writer for the New York Times who specializes in International environmental and energy issues. I’ll be visiting him again next week for an update, in light of Paris. For…

An evergreen across science communication is that scientists don't know how to communicate science.  Eli has confronted this issue before at the cost of ticking (permanently) off a bunch of communicators . . .  a whole lot of other people…

Dummies don’t lie. Electric vehicles are safer for several reasons, not least of which are a lower center of gravity, and the flexibility and additional space that an electric drive system gives to engineers in providing best possible protection. Close…

  This is part of a series of articles responding to the claims made in Dean Sessions’ Universal Model.  Click the link to see the introduction to the series. Volume 1 of the Universal Model (UM) is long.  Really, REALLY…

They say that a good book should always tell a story. And this is true for this book by Paul Gipe. Titled "Wind Energy for the Rest of Us" is not just about the technology, but it tells the whole…

Remember that story a few years ago about the Antarctic researchers trapped in the ice? Deniers made a lot of mirth about that one, as if it showed something inconsistent with the climate change process. What they didn’t get, being,…

Ah love yew, Mr. Trump. blub blub blub….. Richmond Times-Dispatch: TANGIER — The mayor of the tiny Chesapeake Bay island community of Tangier says President Donald Trump called him after seeing a news report about the threat the Virginia village…

This Thursday, the planet will be at a distance of 1,353 million kilometers from Earth, the shortest distance in 378 days. Photo: Nasa Now it is one of the best times to see the planet Saturn. Although several weeks ago…

Earth’s last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago. The warmer and more stable climate the followed allowed for the development of agriculture and the rise of human civilization. This important period encompassing the past 12,000 years is referred to…

Today seems to be the day the 2017 arctic #seaice extent crosses with the 2012 ice extent. Wild card: big summer storms in the #Arctic. pic.twitter.com/H83LLXlbhd — David Titley (@dwtitley) June 13, 2017 After a winter of record low sea…

They hacked the election. in a pinch, they will hack the grid. Bet on it. Washington Post: Hackers allied with the Russian government have devised a cyberweapon that has the potential to be the most disruptive yet against electric systems…

It may just be me but I get the distinct impression that - "thanks" to Donald Trump's ill-advised and shortsighted decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement - people have been hearing a lot more about climate change since…

Here's a quick blog post, which is mostly a copy of a comment I just wrote on the 2017 melting season thread on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum. For those who want to know more about what melting momentum means,…

This is part of a series of articles responding to the claims made in Dean Sessions’ Universal Model.  Click the link to see the introduction to the series. I have a hypothesis I want to pitch to you, dear reader.  …

Most popular article ever on Yale Climate Connections, just updated. Yale Climate Connections: There’s an issue where the underlying science remains a political football, and scientists are regularly challenged and called out personally. Where energy needs and short-term economic growth…

Very soon, a large portion of an ice shelf in Antarctica will break off and collapse into the ocean. The name of the ice shelf is Larsen C; it is a major extension from of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and…

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Doug McNeall recently gave a talk about surviving the climate communication environment, which he discusses in this post. A lightly edited version of the slides are available here. The slides, of course, don’t tell you precisely what was said in…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.  Editor's Pick Trump’s Climate-Change Sociopathy  Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement is not…

Oftentimes mass media is a mirror for profound movements in society – I watch movies always with an eye to what they may be telling us. Have not seen Wonder Woman yet, maybe next week – but the enthusiasm seems…

B-roll from my trip to Miami last year helps give a better perspective on flooding in Miami Beach and Miami, Florida. Filed under: Crock of the Week…

Made a few minor adjustments on this one. Still worth a look if you have not seen. Positive feedback is great from your boss. Not so great from an Ice Sheet. This is the kind of communication you get for…

CBC: A move by OPEC sent a brief surge of optimism through the Canadian petroleum industry last week, when the oil cartel announced it was extending its production cuts. But according to research released shortly after that announcement, the world…

I’ve noticed a slight resurgence in those claiming to be lukewarmers and trying to argue that this is some kind of reasonable middle ground. I’ve written about lukewarmers before, but the basic issue with the lukewarmer argument is that they…

#Climate science isn't rocket science. It's much harder. But we've been working on it for more than a century and we're damn good at it. pic.twitter.com/irpu0sH1Ae — Peter Gleick (@PeterGleick) June 9, 2017 Making the rounds on Twitter. Recently unearthed…

May 12, news: The call for applications for the school has been successful with about 80 applications, which is close to the initial target. At a first examination, they all seem to be of good quality from young people and…

Tag Line Saying “No warming” since the last El Nino is likeSaying “No weight gain” since the last Christmas dinner. Elevator Statement On Christmas eve you eat a big dinner, with lots of seconds, gravy, ooey gooey sweet potatoes with…