During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Central to these updates are the daily Cryosphere Today sea ice area (SIA) and IJIS sea ice extent (SIE) numbers, which… [more]
This is another in a series of portals – lists of links designed to make datasets more easily accessed. I’m planning a master list to put up as a permanent page.The Bureau of Meteorology has an extensive network of Australian… [more]
I think this video it is worth looking and listening at even if you don’t understand Italian. It is the story of a lake which has naturally emerged in the middle of a (probably) illegal housing development in Rome. The… [more]
Maher holds up the new National Review cover, which explains it all. Reminds me of recent remarks by Jeb Bush that scientists and those that believe in what science says, are “sanctimonious”. (video link hat tip to D.R. Tucker)… [more]
Our experience of current warmth can override our scientific knowledge in driving beliefs about climate change, which is part of the reason we struggle to take the resulting risks seriously, underlines Columbia University’s Elke Weber.… [more]
14 concepts that will be obsolete after catastrophic climate change
Abrupt climate shifts in the past offer warning for future
Changing human behavior is major factor in selling cleaner cars, curbing congestion
China’s energy plans will worsen climate change, Greenpeace… [more]
Brewster McCracken and the Amazing Pecan Street Project sounds like a great name for a movie, – with a marvelous electric flying vehicle, maybe. Brewster McCracken is CEO of the Pecan Street Project – an Austin, Texas based research outfit… [more]
My brother lives in the Methow Valley of Washington, where fires have raged in recent weeks. Despite power outages, he was able, with a neighbor, to rig pumps and keep a water sprayer on his ranch, while digging firebreaks –… [more]
Attack of the Chicago climate change maggots
Climate change already having profound impacts on lakes in Europe
Error discovered in Antarctic sea-ice record
EU agrees to improve energy efficiency 30% by 2030
G20 should facilitate international cooperation on climate change… [more]
The Heartland Institute, famous for misinforming on the Health effects of cigarettes, and the bogus science of climate denial, now promotes the views of the creationist Discovery Institute, in attacking Science education as “propaganda”. Not a surprise to me, as,… [more]
News about water shortages in the American West are usually illustrated with pictures like that above, showing the decline in surface reservoirs. Now, a science team has looked below the surface. Turns out the news is worse than we thought.… [more]
Katherine Monroe*, the author/inventor of this stream gauge, is a graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, in the same class as Elliott Rebello. Her senior project was quite different, and you’ll get to see the details in her own words. … [more]
The second Sea Ice Outlook of this year has been published. The SIO is now organized by the Sea Ice Prediction Network (as part of the Arctic research program 'Study of Environmental Arctic Change', or SEARCH), and is a compilation… [more]
No happy ending for us tonight alas. We had a good start, and not one but two whistles on Tabs into Grassy, and all of that was the plan, but we lacked the oomph to close down the last half… [more]
DailyClimate: The impacts are increasingly being felt everywhere – bigger storms in the Midwest, soggy summers in England, drought in Colorado. But nowhere on the planet are the impacts as dramatic as the Arctic, and the ice cap is a… [more]
The main point that I am making with my latest book, “Extracted” is that mineral depletion is one of the major sources of our present economic and environmental troubles. Explaining this point is not easy: most people still seem to… [more]
I’ve reported on clashes between clean energy activists and Utilities in Georgia and Arizona. Other battlefield states emerging as the solar/renewable wave moves across the country. What we’ve seen so far is that the overwhelming popularity of renewable energy has… [more]
Speaking of Rainforests, (see post on this page).. I guess it wasn’t enough for the Tobacco companies to perfect the anti-science movement template. Turns out global deforestation is also business as usual.Filed under: Crock of the Week… [more]
These folks have a Kickstarter campaign, that runs thru next week. If you have already helped out with Dark Snow Project, and have some extra enthusiasm, check this out. Rainforest Connection: Rainforest Connection (RFCx) transforms recycled cell-phones into autonomous, solar-powered… [more]
Everyone that was alive can remember where they were when they heard of this. From the Description: Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969, a little after 4:00in the afternoon Eastern Daylight Time. The Lunar Module, nicknamed… [more]
Around the planet, wildfires are becoming larger and more destructive. This summer, a series of wildfires enveloped large areas of Canada’s Boreal forest, blanketing western North America with smoke. One key question is, do these fires have an effect on… [more]
An oddity. About 36 hours ago I looked in on Paul Homewood’s site, and saw this credulous post. I followed the link to ClimateChangeDispatch, which said:”A new post on The Hockey Schtick reviews a new paper “that finds only about… [more]
I should write up day 2 before day 3, else I’ll be coloured. There’s a riggercam video, again, but it will look pretty similar to yesterday unless you care, so instead here’s some footage from Grassy. This has the benefit… [more]
(Not very substantive post on meeting Michelle Obama, click here to read if you’re idly curious….)Maybe I should call it “meeting” Michelle Obama – a handshake, someone told her my first name, she thanked us for what the Water District is… [more]
A new sustainability report from the NHL warns that climate change affects “opportunities for hockey players of all ages to learn and play the game outdoors”.
The report on sustainability initiatives may look like a bit of greenwashing from a… [more]
East of the Chilung La and 20 km northwest of Durung Drung Glacier draining into the Sankpo (Suru) River is an unnamed glacier, here referred to as Chilung Glacier. The Suru River flows northwest from Pensi La, while the Zanskar… [more]
Someone pointed me to the amusing tweet by the deranged blogger who goes by the name “Steven Goddard”, fresh from the Heartland Climate Denial conference and feeling his oats apparently, @ Meteorologist Heidi Cullen. Got me thinking there needs to… [more]
I have some good news and some bad news. Slate: The world’s average temperature is breaking records, and India’s monsoon is in shambles. Borderline El Niño conditions are already here. How much worse will it get? New data released Thursday… [more]
Current news about whether there really is an increase in Antarctic sea ice cover is reinforcing my belief, shared by most people who deal with data, that data are ugly. This work argues that the trend that some have seen… [more]
This guest post is by Alister Barry, producer and co-director of the new documentary Hot Air, which will be premiered in Wellington next week. Hot Air is screening in the New Zealand International Film Festival around the country over the… [more]
