While I was on vacation last week, nothing much seemed to happen. Oh, massive flooding in Pakistan, heat waves in Russian, but beyond disasters in foreign countries, no one I talked to recalled anything. Today I come across a report in The Guardian that Richard Alley, perhaps this nation's premier expert in ice sheet formationContinue reading “Greenland ice sheet doomed: Richard Alley”
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CO and Temperature Changes: Richard Alley Explains
In his talk to thousands of scientists this week at the American Geophysical Union, Dr. Richard Alley, perhaps the best communicator" of all climatologists today, explained with a wonderfully simple metaphor why changes in levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere slightly lag behind changes in global temperature. It's important because this fact seems toContinue reading “CO and Temperature Changes: Richard Alley Explains”
More Climate Data for the Fire
As usual, Toles explains the big picture with ease, leaving the rest of us to squabble over the details: To be specific, the last couple of months have brought several grim climate studies to the fore, none of which has raised so much as a ripple of consciousness, as far as yours truly can tell.Continue reading “More Climate Data for the Fire”
Kit Stolz 