What’s going to happen as the Earth warms, the sea-levels rise, and storms batter the East Coast of the U.S. with ever-increasing ferocity? Well, for one, damages, measured in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars per storm, are …
One of Many Reasons It’s Not a Good Time To Be an Oil Company Read More »
Technology alone isn’t going to save humanity from the effects of climate change. Headlines claiming otherwise might make for great slices of clickbait, but they aren’t being entirely truthful. While new technological innovations this year like increasingly affordable solar panels …
Astronomers have discovered over 2000 exoplanets, some of which have a startling resemblance to our Earth. Cancer patients are twice as likely to survive for a decade or more than they were 40 years ago. Today, your cell phone has more computing power in …
Are There Areas In Which Scientists Simply Can’t Be Trusted? Read More »
My post, “Most Congressional Climate Skeptics Simply Haven’t Come Out of the Closet,” offered some harsh words on the integrity of congressional climate skeptics, including: I seriously doubt there are more than a handful of true climate deniers in Congress; I think most …
Today’s Climate Deniers Come in Exactly Two Forms Read More »
Here’s a request I received from 350.org, asking me to “Tell Congress that climate change made Hurricane Irma worse.” I complied, as I always do, but I seriously doubt there are more than a handful of true climate deniers in Congress; …
Most Congressional Climate Skeptics Simply Haven’t Come Out of the Closet Read More »
Here’s a graph of average global temperatures from NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration). We’ve all seen this before; what could possibly be newsworthy about it? It’s that NASA won’t be in the climate/atmospheric research business much longer, so graphics …
Check Out NASA’s Graph of Global Temperature….While You Can Read More »
Do you ever read an article that presents a certain set of assertions that are so noncontroversial that you’re left wondering what you learned and why you invested the time?
The image shown here is from a news article (not a scientific paper) on the connection between CO2 concentrations and climate change from 1912, the same year the Titanic sank. Predating it by several decades were the first scientific studies …
The Science of Climate Change Has Been Around a Long Time Read More »
Here’s an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times called “Harvey should be a warning to Trump that climate change is a global threat.” Sorry if this sounds like splitting hairs, but if the author is discussing climate change and using …
For those wishing to understand the relationship between climate change and hurricanes, here’s a wonderful piece from Yale University that describes precisely the role that warmer oceans play in all destruction we’re seeing.
