Tag Archives: global warming

Obama: Can He Be Trusted on Coal?

For enviros concerned about global warming, nothing matters more than opposing the construction of new coal plants, in this country and around the world. That’s because coal is by far the most carbon intensive of all fuels. James Hansen, the world’s leading climatologist, has been talking about its menace for years. In an op-ed publishedContinue reading “Obama: Can He Be Trusted on Coal?”

Ocean Oscillations to Slow Global Warming until 2025, Researchers Say

So say a team of researchers led by Noel Keenlyside. (Those interested in seeing the full article, which I bought at the ridiculous price of $32, please let me know during the next week — I’ll send it to you.) For an excellent report and discussion, see the dean of climate reporters, Andy Revkin atContinue reading “Ocean Oscillations to Slow Global Warming until 2025, Researchers Say”

The Storm (we can’t see)

A new poem from Charles Simic, current poet laureate of the US, on an oncoming storm we cannot seem to see…is this about AGW? You can decide for yourself… THE STORM I’m going over to see what those weeds By the stone wall are worried about. Perhaps, they don’t care for the way The shadowsContinue reading “The Storm (we can’t see)”

Global Warming Moving Jet Streams Northward, Researchers Suspect

Numerous different researchers at different institutions have found that global warming is altering the nature and strength of the the jetstreams that move weather around the planet. At the Carnegie Institute, based at Stanford, Cristina Archer and Ken Caldeira looked at jetstream trends from the years l979-2001. (Some people have all the luck.) In aContinue reading “Global Warming Moving Jet Streams Northward, Researchers Suspect”

ABC News: Planet Less Important Than Flag Pin

Today The New York Times introduces a new columnist, and a new idea of a columnist — a graphics columnist. And Charles Blow lives up to the billing by succinctly making an important point that his far-better-paid media peers at ABC and other television networks cannot seem to grasp. (Perhaps living in TV land makesContinue reading “ABC News: Planet Less Important Than Flag Pin”

Global Warming: Republicans For It Still

If actions speak louder than words, then Republicans still want more global warming. That’s the message of an entertaining but hard-hitting column by the great Jonathan Chait in this week’s issue of The New Republic. He states the ideological case wittily up front: Republicans are no longer denying the scientific basis for global warming. That’sContinue reading “Global Warming: Republicans For It Still”

The American West: Hotter, Drier, More Disease-Prone

The lede from ScienceDaily: The American West has warmed 70 percent more than the planet as a whole, according to a new analysis in a new report released by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The West’s most pronounced temperature increase is in the Colorado River basin, whichContinue reading “The American West: Hotter, Drier, More Disease-Prone”

Why the King Salmon Crashed in CA in 2007

Even the experts still aren’t sure. But The San Francisco Chronicle, in the person of Jane Kay, follows up, and brings a little more specificity to the question. Still no mention of La Nina/the PDO, but buried deep in the story is the news we half-expect, half-fear: In 2005 and 2006, the years that theContinue reading “Why the King Salmon Crashed in CA in 2007”

Global Warming Quotes, via the WSJ

A superb selection of quotations on global warming, almost all of them (save from James Hansen) new to me, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. The first, in some ways, is the best: 1979 “It is the sense of the scientific community that carbon dioxide from unrestrained combustion of fossil fuels potentially is the mostContinue reading “Global Warming Quotes, via the WSJ”