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When scientists talk about “Abrupt” climate change, they usually don’t mean the “Day After Tomorrow” scenario with giant waves roaring into New York.What they mean is that slow, incremental change gradually reaches a point where it can suddenly overwhelm infrastructure…

Bill McKibben in NY Review of Books: “…we now know that Exxon had a full understanding of climate change in the 1980s, but that, instead of alerting the rest of us, it helped build the architecture of deceit and denial…

Reuters: Electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) plans to introduce a new low-cost, long-life battery in its Model 3 sedan in China later this year or early next that it expects will bring the cost of electric vehicles in line…

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you should know by now that you have an early warning system for developments in climate science. It’s happened again. No brag, just fact. New York Times: Hurricanes have become stronger worldwide…

Description: CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli spoke to Dr. Ralph Keeling of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCSB political science professor Leah Stokes about the worldwide lockdown and its unremarkable effect on our carbon footprint. Key takeaway:…

WeatherUnderground: After a spectacular bout of rapid intensification on Sunday, Tropical Cyclone Amphan poses a grave storm-surge threat to the highly vulnerable coastline of the upper Bay of Bengal. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) upgraded Amphan to the equivalent…

Not exactly climate, but interesting take on a different philosophy of how people move around.Great footage highlighting Amsterdam’s terrific public transit.…

Figure 1: Study sites considered in this article: Seller Glacier and Heim Glacier Post by Mariama Dryak Iceberg melt is caused by the temperature of the water in which an iceberg floats and the velocity of the water flowing around…

The basic concept of the biotic regulation of Earth's temperature according to Victor Gorshkov and his coworkers. The figure shows the potential function U(T) for the global mean surface temperature. Stable states correspond to pits, unstable states to hills. The…

Andy Slavitt on Twitter: The view from Trump advisors not directly involved in the rising death toll is that the “CDC” (i.e., EPA) wants to burden Trump’s chances of driving economic activity in the 8 states he cares about.  The…

Funny, and he talks Australian, which is always a plus. M. Moore’s movie doing great with the right wing online, but in the real world, it’s sunk his reputation, and is simply irrelevant to the ongoing technological disruption.…

Recent publications seem to confirm that the American west, as CBS News mentions above. I thought it might be interesting to review the video I did on the topic in 2014, following a particularly brutal dry patch. There has been…

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The Imperial College code, the results from which are thought to have changed the UK government’s coronavirus policy, has been available for a while now on github. Since being made available, it’s received criticism from some quarters, as discussed by…

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March of this year coronavirus exploded in New York, especially New York City (NYC), plagued by nearly 2,600 deaths (over 300 per million population) by month’s end. Worse yet, new deaths were spreading rapidly. The disease was slower to arrive…

The cheetah in the figure knows very well that it cannot spend more energy in chasing the impala than the impala can provide once eaten (in other words, the cheetah needs an energy return on the investment (EROEI) >1). Carnivores…

Are we entering the clean energy disruption? If you have not seen Tony Seba, he’s what you would call a Techno optimist.I always take a skeptical view, but it’s hard to dismiss him becausehe’s been on the money for a…

Above, former GOP Presidential candidate and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.In light of the current pandemic, as a Republican administration flails without a plan, and seemingly unable to formulate one, the consequences of celebrating and elevating stupidity seem more stark than…

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Do wait for it.Greta Thunberg shows up. Rolling Stone: Pearl Jam enlist Greta Thunberg to issue a dire climate change warning in the band’s new animated video for “Retrograde,” a track off their recent LP Gigaton. In the video, a…

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March of this year coronavirus exploded in Europe, including in Switzerland, hit with over 16,000 cases (nearly 2,000 per million population) by month’s end. Worse yet, new cases were spreading rapidly. The disease was slower to arrive in Sweden, with…

During the difficult months ahead, those parts of the economy where workers can operate safely with adequate social distancing will be able to carefully proceed.Following the crisis, we’re going to have a lot of communities flat on their backs. Shovel…

Frank Mackie Glacier, British Columbia in Landsat images from 1987 and 2019.  Red arrow is the 1987 terminus location, yellow arrow the 2019 terminus location and purple dots the snowline. Point 1-3 are specific locations where bedrock exposure has expanded.…

Video above is somewhat misleadingly titled, because actually the truth is quite convenient, cheap and emission free. It is inconvenient for Michael Moore and his muddle headed followers that the facts don’t follow the fossil fuel narrative.…

Joanne Doroshow on Facebook: I was not going to step into this mess, which many people have contacted me about over the last couple weeks. But because of my anti-nuclear background and my familiarity with all that went down in…

I’ve featured Ellicott City, Maryland’s disastrous “thousand year flood” in some past videos (see below) Since the whole world is kind of being hit by a flood now, perhaps instructive to look at Ellicott City’s aspirational recovery plan,Realizing they were…

Guest post by Federico TabelliniThis article was originally published last year on the Italian blog ‘Effetto Cassandra’. I repropose it here because I think the coronavirus crisis has made it somehow more relevant. The current situation raises new questions: is…