I never thought it would come to this, but it is with urgency that I ask readers to check out this FAQ section on climate change, presented by NOAA, the (U.S.) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Category: Climate Change
A Strange Thing Happened Along Our Evolution as a Species….
If you’re looking for the single oddest quirk of humankind, you can’t throw out the fact that, year after year, as the sea ice melts, and another high temperature record is broken, large swaths of the U.S.population shrug their shoulders …
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Climate Change Mitigation Is Going Forward—With or Without the U.S.
Here’s an important, if fairly general, article in Science Magazine written by (or for) U.S. President Barack Obama that offers good news: climate change mitigation is gaining strength and is, at this point, irreversible. The author makes the point that I’ve …
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Evidence For and Against Climate Change
In response to my piece called On the Climate Change “Hoax,” a commenter writes: Not a global warming fan. I lived in North Dakota for 2 winters. Minus 30F will remove all thoughts that anything is warming up. I’ve heard …
Tagged with: Evidence For and Against Climate Change, hot seawater has destroyed vast areas of coral reefs, ice near the poles is melting at an incredible pace, On the Climate Change “Hoax”, people are dropping like flies in the summers in rural India from heat that goes into the 120s, rising sea-levels are already causing people to lose their homes, theory that is almost unanimously held by climate scientists
On the Climate Change “Hoax”
Here’s a video that an intelligent, well-educated and well-meaning friend sent me, which “smashes global warming as a hoax,” and came with the proviso “I don’t want a big debate on this.” Well that’s a good start. Who really wants …
What a Simple Graph Shows Us About Global Warming
There’s very little to be said about this article and the chart below. If you don’t believe that the temperature of the Earth is increasing, you’re badly misinformed.
More Evidence of Global Warming—But Does It Matter?
Going “clamming” on the beaches of the Northeastern U.S. means hunting for the little guys pictured here, the quahog. But did you know that you could be making chowder out of something that had been alive for more than 500 …
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Do Climate Scientists Work at the Behest of Politics and Popular Opinion?
Predictably, the world of climate change mitigation has taken on a frightening new dimension. The Trump administration has announced that it will be taking aim at “politicized science,” the oft-spoken but never documented concept that tens of thousands of the …
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An Amusing Look at the Difference Between Weather and Climate
There are lots of things in this world that have ceased to function properly, most notably a U.S. government of, by, and for the people. But there are still aspects of our culture that always come through, like the way …
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Defunding NASA’s Climate Research: It’s Not a Complicated Issue
In response to my post explaining how the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will soon see all its climate change research funding removed, here’s a short excerpt from frequent commenter MarcoPolo’s much longer response: It’s always controversial when …
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