Superstorm Sandy as seen in graphics based on the storm: Spooky beautiful. [Fascinating post by Andrew Freedman with great videos from Mel Shapiro and team.] In the vernacular, Shapiro remarked to an interviewer at the US funded research station NCAR: Then, a few hours before landfall, Sandy began a sharp curve toward the west, moving toward the heartContinue reading “Vorticity: Sandy turns on New York and New Jersey”
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Live from the Pliocene: 400 ppm in 2013
As has been reported everywhere, one earthly species has changed the climate here on earth, driving warming CO2 levels (briefly) to 400 parts per million. When was the last time this happened? As Climate Central reported on May 3, there is no single, agreed-upon answer to when CO2 concentrations were last at this level, as studiesContinue reading “Live from the Pliocene: 400 ppm in 2013”
Climate change denial stands on one leg: Money
Chris Hayes throws a fit over climate denial and inaction tonight on his MSNBC show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Extensively quotes from a speech of true outrage and conviction on climate conservation, seventeen minutes long, delivered on the Senate floor by Senator Sheldon WhitehouseContinue reading “Climate change denial stands on one leg: Money”
Santa Ana winds, Ventura County, and fire: 2013
A couple of weeks ago I published a long story about climate change in Ventura County today but didn't mention shifts in the timng of Santa Ana winds. This despite the fact that from talking to Alex Hall of UCLA, a couple of years ago, I knew that evidence suggests that Santa Ana winds nowContinue reading “Santa Ana winds, Ventura County, and fire: 2013”
On “weather whiplash” in Midwest: Jeff Masters
Climate change skeptics often scoff at the idea that climate change could lead to extremes of both drought and flooding. It is counter-intuitive, but all too real a phenomenon. Dr. Jeff Masters gives it a name — "weather whiplash" — and explains how it happens: I'm often asked about the seemingly contradictory predictions from climateContinue reading “On “weather whiplash” in Midwest: Jeff Masters”
The global warming novel from l962: The Drowned World
In 1962, in his second novel, The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard told a story of steadily rising global temperatures, of ice caps melting and rising seas, of humidity and rains and lizards moving into skyscrapers. It's an extraordinary book, for its imagination and artistry and language, but also for its vison of global warming. MightContinue reading “The global warming novel from l962: The Drowned World”
Distracting us from climate change: Toles
From Toles: The royal birth, is my guess.
Climate change and VC: the good, the bad, and the odd
From my Earth Day cover story from the Ventura County Reporter: California does not need fear hurricanes, but it does every few years face El Niño, an oceanic shift that drives unimaginably vast amounts of water across the Pacific and up against the coasts of North and South America, raising the sea level by asContinue reading “Climate change and VC: the good, the bad, and the odd”
Navy meteorologist convinced that global warming is real
Last weekend I wrote a story about a conference in UCSB on sea level change in the Ventura County Star. To quote Rear Admiral (ret) David Titley, a meterologist who once was a skeptic but now believes in climate change: “I’ve told the Navy and Congress that we should expect a global sea rise between nowContinue reading “Navy meteorologist convinced that global warming is real”
From the edge of climate change: Vice (mag) in Venice
A profile of Vice magazine (and its CEO Shane Smith) in The New Yorker concludes with this memorable scene. And yes, this was a report on climate change, from a believer in "environmentalism" — Smith. We took a water taxi through the canals, past crumbling buildings and water-stained walls, and arrived at San Marco justContinue reading “From the edge of climate change: Vice (mag) in Venice”
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