As another excellent story from Neela Banerjee in the Los Angeles Times makes clear, w the Department of Interior thinks the State Department is just ignoring its concerns on wildlife issues on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project. Reading only slightly between the lines, Interior looked at State's "it's not going to be a problem"Continue reading “When agencies attack: Interior vs. State on Keystone XL”
Category Archives: climate
Meet the heat: 21st century to be hot, hotter, and hottest
From a new set of projections in Environmental Research Letters: "Climate change is set to trigger more frequent and severe heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) we emit into the atmosphere, a new study has shown. Extreme heat waves such as those that hit the USContinue reading “Meet the heat: 21st century to be hot, hotter, and hottest”
“The wets will get wetter, the dries drier” for New York City
In the climatologists at work file, here's Dorothy Peteet exploring a marsh about twenty miles north of New York City, taking core samples from the past to extract pollen records, and discovering that during the Medieval Warm Period, what eventually become NYC endured a 500-year drought. Peteet is on the hunt for pollen. She dredgesContinue reading ““The wets will get wetter, the dries drier” for New York City”
Feeding the carbon monster: Toles
Toles, for the 1000th time, finds the comedy in the climate crisis: If only this monster were as artificial as the ones on our movie screens.
Scientific language for non-scientists: climate change x10
Deborah Byrd, founder of the great EarthSky network, has always had an ear for the language as well as an eye on the sky, and writes this week of two climate change studies, both of which found that the change was happening ten times faster than in the past…in fact, faster than in the pastContinue reading “Scientific language for non-scientists: climate change x10”
Ted Nordhaus: Republicans will act on climate change
A thorn in the side of the environmental movement in the last decade has been Ted Nordhaus, who has trumpeted "the death" of the movement in books published with co-author Michael Shellenberger, and sharply criticized environmental strategists. Together they lead a "green think tank" called The Breakthrough Institute which today calls for a revival ofContinue reading “Ted Nordhaus: Republicans will act on climate change”
Prominent Republicans call for climate action now
Here's some news you won't see on FOX News: Four former EPA chiefs, all Republicans, back President Obama's climate action plan, and call for even stronger action, immediately: Each of us took turns over the past 43 years running the Environmental Protection Agency. We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation:Continue reading “Prominent Republicans call for climate action now”
Global weirding 2013: same temp in Ojai as in Greenland
In Greenland this week, temperatures reached an all-time high: 80F. The temperature in Ojai (in Southern California) today: 80F. WTF? In Greenland, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) gently suggested that climate change might have something to do with the high temperatures. As reported by Jason Samenow for the Washington Post: The DMI says the warmthContinue reading “Global weirding 2013: same temp in Ojai as in Greenland”
Plan B for the climate: Time to research the idea?
In Harvard's alumni magazine, a profile of an energetic young professor, David Keith, who argues thoughtfully for researching geoengineering solutions to global warming. As skeptics continue to question whether global warming is real, and worldwide efforts to cut greenhouse gases stall, a small but growing number of scientists believe that humans may need to considerContinue reading “Plan B for the climate: Time to research the idea?”
How much of our climate change fear real? (Achenbach)
Joel Achenbach is a super-popular writer for the Washington Post who happens to be interested in science-y developments such as climate change, asteroids, and disasters. He's also a man with a giant pen, or, perhaps these days, keyboard. He can write! So refreshing in science, may I say. His latest thinking out loud, from thisContinue reading “How much of our climate change fear real? (Achenbach)”
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