Planet3.0 Blogs

The headline of this post is the kind that might make my regular readers (a thoughtful and intelligent crowd if ever there was one) feel superior to the great unwashed and uneducated who are suckered by such nonsense; we’ve all…

Above, Science all-star team breaks down Hurricane Harvey’s relationship to a record-warm ocean. Below, Houston Chronicle editors break down Commander in Chief’s ignorance and arrogance in the face of natural disaster. Vocab advisory: I had to look up exegete.  —…

Description: Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer who has come up with an innovative way to provide fresh water to villages in Ladakh, one of the high-altitude deserts in the world located in the Himalayas. Wangchuk sources water from streams and…

A huge thank you to everyone who supported The Arctic Circle fundraising campaign – the residency fee is paid and I’m gearing up to go back to the Arctic in October. I […]…

Those who oppose policies to cut carbon pollution and slow climate change always claim that doing so will be too expensive and cripple the economy. They argue that instead we should maximize economic growth so that we can pay for…

Above, properties of graphene, a form of carbon that may make huge improvements possible in key renewable tech like batteries and Solar cells. Below, a friend sends news of yet more amazing possibilities for energy storage – as battery tech…

Kokthang Glacier in 1988 and Feb. 2018 Landsat imagery. The red arrow indicates the 1988 terminus and the yellow arrow the upstream end of the lake beyond which the glacier has retreated in 2018.  The purple dots indicate the snowline. …

Credit: Rowan T. Sutton (2018)There’s an interesting Earth System Dynamics Discussion paper presenting a a simple proposal to improve the contribution of IPCC WG1 to the assessment and communication of climate change risks. Essentially, one can estimate the risk of…

Rowan Sutton just published a very short article (an “idea”) in ESDD entitled “a simple proposal to improve the contribution of IPCC WG1 to the assessment and communication of climate change risks”. From a risk management point of view a…

Physics is the simplest science, a hard won truth that Eli has reached after many years in many fields. A bunny can do a lot of physics with pencil and paper, maybe even without those if enough homework has been…

When it comes to sea level rise, climate deniers are desperate. It’s so obviously happening that denying its reality is a loser. It’s so obviously costly already (half a billion dollars in Miami) that trying to deny that will only…

We sometimes hear that the need for expensive or toxic materials in lithium Ion batteries is a drawback or limitation on electric vehicle adoption. Important to understand that the battery chemistry we have today is not the chemistry of tomorrow,…

Earther: Weather watchers may be more preoccupied of late with storms popping off in the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific, but a very unusual cyclone also spun up over the Arctic this week—and it could spell more bad…

Rob Meyer in The Atlantic: A team of scientists from Harvard University and the company Carbon Engineering announced on Thursday that they have found a method to cheaply and directly pull carbon-dioxide pollution out of the atmosphere. If their technique…

It is rare that a province of the Empire tries to pursue an independent foreign policy but, at the last G7 meeting, the new Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, did something like that. He stated that Russia should return to…

Dark Snow Project Chief Scientist Jason Box in Montenegro, May 2018. Many worthwhile slides, some background noise, but valuable, arctic-focused overview, includes good discussion of sea level rise.   Advertisements…

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week. Editor's Pick Artificial Intelligence—A Game Changer for Climate Change and the Environment   AI is continually improving climate models. Photo: Los Alamos National Lab …

Most of the info is in the first 2 or 3 minutes of the video above. Tesla, for now, seems stable and moving forward on goals. Bloomberg: Tesla has consistently missed its production targets since deliveries of the Model 3…

No Colbert in this clip, just the apex of dumbness. Look upon this and marvel. At a gas station, a guy comes up after seeing my "FUCK TRUMP" sign: Him: You know why we love Trump so much? Me: …no……

Description: Steve Harris comes from many generations of farmers. There is no question that being a farmer is hard work, and the certainty provided by the wind being generated on his farm in rural North Carolina is making it a…

Description: Bryan Wilson lost his business during the 2008 recession but he, and the island he calls home, found a new future in offshore wind. After relying for decades on diesel generators for power, Block Island played a critical role…

From the Infinity Wars soundtrack. The movie is so dark from the get-go that when this pops on the soundtrack it’s a much needed blessed, bouncing relief. Advertisements…

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change Overcoming early career barriers to interdisciplinary climate change research Projected climate over the Greater Horn of Africa under 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming (open access) Temperature, precipitation, wind…

Solar plant near Rüdersdorf, Germany 2014, © Molgreen, CC BY-SA 4.0(Reblogged from blog.wozukunft.de)Guest post by Gregor Hagedorn Many people, including myself, fear that the great acceleration (1, 2) of our consumption and destruction of resources such as land, biodiversity, soil,…

Before kicking off this latest PIOMAS update, there's a little piece of information I'd like to share: A massive cyclone is passing through the Arctic right now. The cyclone has bottomed out about half a day ago at 966 hPa,…

As I discussed in this post, there’s been a lengthy discussion on Twitter about climate scientists publicly discussing policy/solutions. In response to this, David Roberts tweeted the following: I think a) the over-reliance on climate scientists to do all the…

EPA spokesman: ‘Have a great day. You’re a piece of trash.” Really. Shock and disappointment even among long-time aids whose careers have been damaged by association. And who really wants a used Trump mattress? That’s some really disgusting crazy. Advertisements…

This is a thing that is possible. https://t.co/fiFAG0FhDx — Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) June 6, 2018 The Hill: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says he changed his mind on the existence of man-made climate change because he “read a lot.” “I heard…

Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone: Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana last August, causing $125 billion in damage, dumped more water out of the sky than any storm in U.S. history. By one calculation, roughly a million gallons fell…

When we think of global warming and climate change, most of us ignore the impacts that animals have on the environment. Climate affects animals, but is the reverse true? Can animals affect the climate? I don’t know how to answer…