Pictured here is a cemetery in northwestern Canada whose grave markers were anchored in ice thought at the time to be permanent, now melting rapidly. From The Guardian:
Category: Climate Change
Permafrost Melting 70 Years Early
Tagged with: feedback loop producing an even faster rise in global temperatures, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, pathogenic bacteria will be unleashed on a population with no immunity, rapid thawing will release vast quantities of methane, U.S. recommit to cut emissions under the 2015 Paris agreement
Focusing on Arctic Sea Ice Loss Is Important, But Doing It Isn’t a Walk in the Park
As shown here, as time passes, global warming means successively less sea ice in the Arctic. Since this ice is (was) floating, its melting makes no change in the sea level, unlike when even a far tinier amount melts off …
Focusing on Arctic Sea Ice Loss Is Important, But Doing It Isn’t a Walk in the Park Read More »
Tough Times for Those Whose Careers Require Thinking
We live in times in which many of us are functioning with a grossly diminished capacity to think. This has numerous consequences that go far beyond our ability to distinguish left from right (see photo), and it explains how it’s …
Tough Times for Those Whose Careers Require Thinking Read More »
Environmental Alarmism
As is the case with so many of our human endeavors, there are people on all sides of the issue of climate change, its importance, and tactics for its mitigation. In Apocalypse Never, Michael Shellenberger (cover shown here) argues that …
Tagged with: by 2075 hundreds of millions of people will suffer terribly, Carbon emissions peaked, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere continue to rise, die by causes related to a changing climate, Environmental Alarmism, insect-borne diseases, potable water shortages, scientific consensus, sea-level rise that submerges their homelands
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
Somebody’s Lying. Who Could It Be?
Scottish philosopher David Hume left us with this gem: We always disbelieve the greater miracle. We’re constantly bombarded with information that conflicts with things we believe. How do we sort this out? There is really no other way to do …
Tagged with: anthropogenic global warming
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Climate Change
Question: The building shown here is (was) in Siberia, but it’s falling down. Why? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: It’s also the cause of a 20K gallon oil spill in the same region.
Prizes for Environmental Photography
From “Treehugger,” a couple of powerful images in the “climate change” and “water scarcity” categories:
Tagged with: climate change and water scarcity
ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, American Petroleum Institute Named in Climate Change Litigation
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed suit against fossil fuel organizations ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute. Minnesota joins at least 15 other plaintiffs, including attorneys general in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island, who have brought …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Townspeople Face Unusual Weather, Climate
Question: There are two unique but related things about the small town of Verkhoyansk in Siberia, about 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. What are they? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: If climate change weren’t …
