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I’m a climate scientist, and I don’t worry about climate change very much. I think about it every day, but I don’t let it in. To me climate change is a fascinating math problem, a symphony unfolding both slowly and…

Perfect storm of Ignorance and Ego as Trump Yaks with Kanye while is base voters drown. Especially effective split screen of Kanye/Trump vs Florida destruction. I guess this is the Republican idea of “male energy”. Not the way I was…

If you think climate change is an important issue (like I do), and you’re wondering who to vote for in the upcoming U.S. election, who should get your vote? Which politicians should you vote against? The easy answer is: vote…

John Abraham in the Guardian: It is a wonder that a state like Florida, which will get pummeled by Michael, could vote for someone that denies climate change. Think of how backwards the situation is – the Florida Department of…

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2018 Update from Andy Lee Robinson: Latest visualization of the startling decline of Arctic Sea Ice up to 2018, showing the minimum volume reached every September since 1979, set on a map of New York with a 10km grid to…

I hope that doesn’t include you. But it does include some people who write opinion pieces in newspapers, and/or their readers who suck it right up. I’m not just talking about “made a mistake” or “that was dumb” or “oops,…

Floridians are staring down a very powerful Category 4 typhoon that is causing extensive damage.  The high winds, heavy rains, and storm surge will cost billions of dollars. We know that climate change is making these storms stronger.  The storms feed off of…

Reposting MIT Hurricane Expert Kerry Emanuel from 2016 – his analysis only more prescient with time.   #Michael had 155 mph winds at landfall–roundoff error from a cat 5, and the STRONGEST landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record this late in…

Vera Glacier in Landsat images from 1990 and 2018. Red arrow is the 1990 terminus and yellow arrow the 2018 terminus location.  Purple dots indicate the snowline, E indicates the eastern tributary and S the bedrock step. Vera Glacier is…

There’s been a lot of talk recently about limiting global warming to 1.5°C, mainly focused on two things: 1) how important it is, and 2) how difficult it will be. This raises an important question: how far have we come…

Tag Line Inertia is your friend … until it isn’t. Elevator Statement Inertia delays the response …  But for each CO2 level there is a guaranteed response …        Be patient, the response is coming …                     And when it finally comes…

NBC now predicting cat 4 strength tonight. Moving over area of “bathwater” warm Gulf. Weather Channel: Michael has intensified to a Category 3 major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Michael is expected to make landfall along the Florida…

Ron Baron, Baron Funds CEO and CIO, discusses the popularity and quality of Tesla cars as compared to other automakers as well as the future of electric vehicles. “In 10 years the automobile industry will be unrecognizable.”   Advertisements…

Many things affect global temperature, and the three best-known other than greenhouse-gases those are the el Niño southern oscillation (ENSO), atmospheric aerosols from volcanic eruptions, and variations in the sun. We can use historical data to estimate how strongly those…

Yet another hit piece by Freedom Fighters against “ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism and cultural constructivism.” Yasha Mounk called it Sokal Squared. On closer inspection, there’s no Sokal there. Inspired by Michael Lukas I contend it’s more of a Veritas scam.…

Shocking. Watch what happened when I asked a bus stop full of CA students if they'd vote in their *key* midterm district. Bueller? While Trump's latest fire drill is underway, here's something else to think about: why young Americans don't…

Weather.com: Hurricane Michael has strengthened to Category 2 intensity, and is forecast to strike the Florida Panhandle as a Category 3 with dangerous storm surge flooding, destructive winds and flooding rainfall. Michael will also bring heavy rain and strong winds…

Below, PBS Newshour on the newest warning from global scientists. Advertisements…

Lately Eli has been playing Clarissa, explaining all the thermochaff thrown up against the wall by his friends the confused.  First it was the Green Plate Effect showing how the presence of a colder third body decreases the cooling rate…

Good report from PBS will not be new to viewers here, – it looks like a review of my posts from the last decade – but – some folks are just to the point of being ready to hear. Meanwhile,…

From the U.K. Guardian, here. This blog is made possible by readers like you; join others by donating at My Wee Dragon. Advertisements…

Longtime readers may remember that I (Brian speaking here), realizing what great reputations politicians had, decided to become one myself, and was elected to the board running the water agency for Silicon Valley for four years. I wasn't re-elected, moved…

One of the most valuable posts I’ve seen recently at RealClimate is this one about the new IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C. The report has a lot to say that’s crucially important. The RealClimate report deals with only a bit…

A cartoon illustration of the Trump administration’s climate policy logic Illustration: John Cook Several years ago, I wrote about the five stages of climate denial.  To date, the Trump administration has pinballed between Stages 1, 2, and 3, calling climate change a…

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Carbon brief has a very nice interactive report that show the impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond. It presents the various projected climatic, ecologial, and economic changes on both global and regional scales. It is an impressive…

Empires are short-lived structures created and kept together by the availability of mineral resources, fossil fuels in our times. They tend to decline and fall with the decline of the resources that created them, and that's the destiny of the…

We tend to focus on the end of the melting season, also known as the minimum, because that's when the ice covers the least amount of water. That's all fine and dandy, but of course, it's just an arbitrary measuring…