The letters in the sand translate from the German as “Last Warning.” The cartoonist seems be to suggesting that what we’re observing all around us in terms of higher temperatures and the concomitant droughts, wildfires, dry riverbeds, emptied aquifers, and …
Tag: droughts
Latest Carbon Dioxide Reading Falls in Line with Past Data
From the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research: Carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2022 at 421 parts per million in May, pushing the atmosphere further into territory not seen for millions of …
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Effects of Climate Change
The man is an idiot, to be sure, but he’s obviously correct here. There are places on Earth at extreme latitudes that already have longer growing seasons, and use less energy to provide heat in winter. There will also be …
Americans Bamboozled By Mainstream Media
It’s pretty clear that the American public is getting played by the media. Of course there is the right-wing garbage in which “journalists” simply invent things that attract the Republican base of largely old, angry, and undereducated white people. But …
Climate Change Disinformation Campaigns Are Losing Effectiveness
In the main, this is true. Fortunately, the disinformation campaigns are no longer effective on anyone except the “ignorant yokels.” This, I believe happened not because everyone trusts science, or that we all have seen evidence of malfeasance on the …
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A Troubled Future?
From this piece by CBS News: More frequent and intense global challenges — in the form of disease outbreaks, financial crises, or the negative effects of climate change or new technologies — are likely to stress already brittle systems of …
Independent Research
Please pardon the profanity in the discussion at left, but this is too good not to share. I don’t have the level of animus as this guy, but I totally see where he’s coming from. (Btw, the Dunning–Kruger effect is …
Tagged with: CO2 concentrations, conversation about climate change, desertification, droughts, Dunning–Kruger effect, dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet, JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory), land erosion, methane emissions, Milankovitch cycles, ocean currents, ocean water temperatures, Rajendra Pachaui at Yale, sea level rise, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, solar irradiance, the number and strength of storms, V. Ramanathan at Scripps
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words, But What Exactly ARE Those Words?
I’m sure the picture here could be interpreted differently, but to me it says, “Yes, climate change, with its floods, droughts, wildfires and famines is ruining our planet, but we’ll be damned if it will ruin a good day of …
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21st Century Living Is “Extreme”
American culture has always had its extreme fads, like flagpole-sitting or goldfish-eating; the pic here featuring “extreme tree trimming” from the 1880s is an example. That’s hilarious, IMO. But these are curiosities. On a far broader scale, we’re starting to see the …
World Bank Group To Invest $200 Billion in Renewable Energy, Climate Change Mitigation
The World Bank is a large and interesting organization. As they introduce themselves on their website: With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global …
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