Category Archives: climate

Fish and Sheep Know Globe is Warming: Why Don’t We?

Talk to climate change skeptics, and they will take you into the weeds of global temperature measurement, the supposedly overlooked importance of the sun, and so on. They will invariably cite the obvious fact that global temps have risen and fallen over the eons. But they will not mention that the glaciers and plants andContinue reading “Fish and Sheep Know Globe is Warming: Why Don’t We?”

Arctic Ice Trends Sharply Downward: Few Notice or Care

It's frankly shocking to me how many people I encounter who still cling to the idea that the globe is not warming, despite vast scientific libraries of evidence to the contrary. Here's the latest example, from data compiled by NASA and ICESAT: For more, see NASA's story New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic SeaContinue reading “Arctic Ice Trends Sharply Downward: Few Notice or Care”

An Army of Clouds — Janisse Ray on Global Warming in Georgia

Janisse Ray, a wonderful writer from the South, has a story about an experience she had with climate change in a gorgeous new interactive book just released by the Union of Concerned Scientists, called Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming. Well worth a look… I never saw a spring so stormy. Spring is supposedContinue reading “An Army of Clouds — Janisse Ray on Global Warming in Georgia”

Threat of Global Warming Publicized…in l958

In the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society last September, scientists William Connolley and Thomas Peterson and journalist/equaintance John Fleck routed a favorite line of climate change deniers, to wit: An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequentlyContinue reading “Threat of Global Warming Publicized…in l958”

Global Warming Drives Flamingo to Nest at 12,000 feet

Apparently. It's just one of four environmental disasters seen in Chile in recent months: Over the course of approximately three months, thousands of [rare Andean flamingos] abandoned their nests on a salt lake in the Atacama Desert in the far north of Chile. Their eggs failed to hatch, and all 2,000 chicks died in theirContinue reading “Global Warming Drives Flamingo to Nest at 12,000 feet”

Well Running Dry in Southern Europe. EU Warns

A stupendous climate change report, complete with extensive interactive graphics on emissions, now can be found on the European Environment Agency site. Part of the story is about how climate change is making life drier and more difficult in Southern Europe. Story includes a great graph on "water stress" in a country, called the WaterContinue reading “Well Running Dry in Southern Europe. EU Warns”

A Scientist Offers a Positive Vision for Emissions Reduction

At the most recent meeting of the American Meteorological Society, the distinguished Warren Washington presented a paper by a team of scientists called Climate Change Projections for the Twenty-First Century and Climate Change Commitment in the CCSM3, which is about projecting our future climate with general circulation (computer) models. The news is not good, unsurprisingly,Continue reading “A Scientist Offers a Positive Vision for Emissions Reduction”

Geo-Engineering: Five Experts Debate

From Seed magazine, an excellent discussion of the pros and cons of geo-engineering the climate to avoid a potential disaster, by five recognized experts. Here's "the prompt," as the kids say: In June the National Academies’ climate panel will convene to examine whether geo-engineering fixes are technically and economically feasible—and whether they can be carriedContinue reading “Geo-Engineering: Five Experts Debate”

SciGuy and “No Warming Since l998” Debunked in GRL

For science reporters, it has to be tempting to throw a curve ball at the climate consensus. Especially in red states, it's what a lot of readers want to hear. Could this be what led Eric Berger, the SciGuy for the Houston Chronicle, to claim that these are "good times to be a climate skeptic?"Continue reading “SciGuy and “No Warming Since l998” Debunked in GRL”