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Climate Science: Skepticism, Transparency, and Multiple Lines of Evidence: Richard Alley boiled down what is well known by scientists regarding climate change into a quick summary. Citing multiple lines of evidence as he went along, Alley said “we have high scientific confidence that we are raising CO2, and that this primarily comes from our burning of fossil fuels… . . . → Read More: Doc alert: Richard Alley’s Congressional presentation As much as I detest anyone lying about matters of great importance for shallow, trivial reasons, like personal financial gain or ideology, that’s not what bugs me the most about the climate change deniers. No, what really frosts my cookies is their knee-jerk triumphalism, the eagerness to point to every meaningless detail and attempt to . . . → Read More: Deniers: Dancing on thin ice, as usual There’s been some talk lately in the news feeds about the “missing heat” from global warming. I’m not completely up to speed on it, but as I understand the situation there was a gap between the observed and predicted heat levels in the Earth System. Because the basic science of the “greenhouse effect” was . . . → Read More: Boiling (or at least warming) the oceans As you’ve probably heard, there was a blockbuster document release today from the National Research Council on climate change. From the press release:
Strong Evidence on Climate Change Underscores Need WASHINGTON — As part of its most comprehensive study of climate change to date, the National Research Council . . . → Read More: Tidbits Greenland rapidly rising as ice melt continues: Greenland is situated in the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast of Canada. It has stunning fjords on its rocky coast formed by moving glaciers, and a dense icecap up to 2 km thick that covers much of the island–pressing down the land beneath and lowering its elevation. Now, scientists at . . . → Read More: Greenland: Movin’ on up Oceans’ fish could disappear in 40 years: UN: The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned Monday. “If the various estimates we have received… come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are out . . . → Read More: Tidbits Your assignment: Discuss. Be sure to mention the location of permafrost and the ramifications for methane and CO2 emissions of . . . → Read More: Mapping the warming Elizabeth Kolbert, easily one of the top writers on all things related to the environment, has an excellent overview of the issue of “are we really in the Anthropocene” on Yale’s Environment 360 site, The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impact: The Holocene – or “wholly recent” epoch – is what geologists call the 11,000 years or so . . . → Read More: The Anthropocene… and beyond Climate Progress: NASA: Easily the hottest April – and hottest Jan-April – in temperature record: It was the hottest April on record in the NASA dataset. More significantly, following fast on the heels of the hottest March and hottest Jan-Feb-March on record, it’s also the hottest Jan-Feb-March-April on record [click on figure to enlarge]. … I asked NASA’s . . . → Read More: Hot, oily, and being too “lucky” Ben Struss has an intriguing take on our situation over at Climate Central, one that will certainly appeal to all the history geeks (like me) out there. After mentioning the most recent “it’s even worse than we thought” studies, he says: For me, it actually helps to look backwards. The time of the American Revolution is . . . → Read More: WWtFFD (What Would the Founding Fathers Do) |
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