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Slate: Climate change is a global problem with extremely local impacts. A major new study illuminates how the effects of climate change will reverberate economically across the United States. Its findings are both a warning of challenges to come and…

One more day in Paris, one more presentation. This one was given on Oct 12th, at the "Ecole Centrale d'Electronique" (ECE) for the members of the system dynamics group of the French Association of System Science ((http://www.afscet.asso.fr/)This one was a…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change 1. Comment on “Scrutinizing the carbon cycle and CO2 residence time in the atmosphere” by H. Harde "As we will show, this alternative scheme is too simple, is based on invalid…

There I am, together with Gaell Mainguy, Directeur du développement et des relations internationales du Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires in Paris. It was on Wednesday, Oct 11 and we are on the 21 floor of the "Tour de Montparnasse", spectacular view of…

Joe Romm in Climate Progress: Three weeks after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, FEMA reported Wednesday that only a little more than 10 percent of the island’s 3.5 million U.S. citizens have power. That is down from 16 percent on…

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War Zone. California’s fires are now the worst in state history.-21 dead-670 missing-3,500 structures-170,000 acres burnedhttps://t.co/X9xPZxozNM pic.twitter.com/MG7KMQPEvB — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) October 11, 2017 Advertisements Filed under: Crock of the Week…

Michael Tobis has a post in which he argues that what we are doing to the climate will persist for many generations and, consequently, that it is immoral to continue what were’e doing and that we should address this as…

Steenstrup Glacier front in 2015 and 2017 illustrating location with respect to the new islands at: Red Head-red arrow, Tugtuligssup Sarqardlerssuua at yellow arrow , and the 2017 new island at orange arrow.  Yellow dots indicate icefront and purple arrow…

In other words, as real as Santa Claus. Nevertheless, Republicans have, apparently, declared war on Ronald Reagan’s War on Coal. Don’t be misled. Washington Post: “Tomorrow, in Washington, D.C., I’ll be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean…

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My first presentation in Paris, yesterday, one of at least four that I am planning to give here (busy times!!). It was at the Ecole National Superieure (ENS) and it was centered on the Energy Transition, as part of a…

After the election of Donald Trump, many of us in the climate and energy fields were rightfully fearful. What would happen to international agreements to cut greenhouse gases? What would happen to funding for climate research? What would happen to the…

The NY Times ran a piece on Saturday Oct 7 by reporter Stanley Reed, headlined Germany’s Shift to Green Power Stalls, Despite Huge Investments The reporter is puzzled about the failure of Germany to reduce carbon dioxide emissions below the…

Rohi Muthyala is a graduate Hydrology student at Rutgers University, and was part of the team I embedded with in Greenland this past summer. I’ve created profiles for each member of the team. This is Rohi’s. (see the first installment…

Above, Michael Bloomberg points out that, regardless of the current, and I predict, short lived, neglect of renewable energy by the federal government, technological change and recognition of climate challenges by major corporations and municipalities continues to drive a paradigm…

It’s insensitive to talk about climate change right now. Relax, let’s go to a movie. oh. Wiki: The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and…

To make up for this somewhat belated PIOMAS update (below), I have for you Andy Lee Robinson's latest update of his Volume ice cube 3D video: ----- Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice…

This is truly incredible.#nature #SundayMorning #October1st pic.twitter.com/j21OkF5dGL — Fredon Moniteau (@FMoniteau) October 1, 2017 Today is Indigenous People’s Day. Raw Story: The environmental group Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-of-its-kind legal suit against the state of Colorado asking for…

Allegedly. Vanity Fair: A day after Facebook disclosed that ads purchased by Russia before and after the 2016 election may have reached as many as 10 million people in the United States, a clearer picture of the Kremlin’s micro-targeting operation…

Animated map showing the observational history of #GlobalWarming since 1850 in two minutes. @BerkeleyEarth pic.twitter.com/i3RssggSeo — Robert Rohde (@rarohde) October 9, 2017 The estimable Robert Rohde of Berkeley Earth has an updated graph. The man who hired him, Richard Muller,…

The conservative philosophy of allowing an unregulated free market to operate unfettered often seems to fall by the wayside when the Republican Party’s industry allies are failing to compete in the marketplace. Trump’s Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently provided a…

I had another brief Twitter discussion with Ned Nikolov, whose paper I discussed in this post. Ned seems to think that there is no atmospheric greenhouse effect and that the enhanced surface temperature is due to atmospheric pressure somehow enhancing…

The vile racism and misogyny of Breitbart was front and center this week due to the Buzzfeed story pulling back the curtain on the hate-site’s internal dynamic. I’m all the prouder to have been in (Breitbart editor) Steve Bannon’s cross…

Tesla Semi unveil now Nov 16. Diverting resources to fix Model 3 bottlenecks & increase battery production for Puerto Rico & other affected areas. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 6, 2017 One of the most hopeful signs in renewable energy…

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Eli's friend, the Killer Rabett of Caerbannog noticed Eli's comment on Steve Tony Goddard's sense of misdirection, and had a few words on the Twitter.  There were more that a few clues to Steve Tony's methods and materials which, both…

A few years ago I posted a video by Andrew Dessler that was discussing whether or not Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity could be less than 3oC. The bottom line was that the best estimate for ECS is about 3oC. Given that…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.  Editor's Pick International concern as US moves to end clean power plan    US and Chinese presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping found…