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One can only imagine what Jacques Cousteau, who in some ways was the oceanic version of Carl Sagan before Sagan was a household name, would have to say about the news ricocheting around the blogosphere about the paper just published in Nature, Global phytoplankton decline over the past century. The paper’s abstract (emphasis added): In the . . . → Read More: The plankton are dying Go see Neven’s latest post, which has four fascinating (and scary) animations he made from stills of Arctic sea . . . → Read More: Got Arctic sea ice animations? Yes, you do There’s been a small tidal wave of news items lately (e.g. Study finds black carbon implicated in global warming and Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, says Stanford researcher) about two papers addressing the possibility of reducing black soot emissions from various forms of combustion as a relatively quick and easy . . . → Read More: How big a deal is reducing black soot? The grim news comes from Climate Action Tracker: Three days before the start of the next round of UN negotiations on climate change in Bonn, actions pledged globally on reductions of greenhouse gas emissions give virtually no chance to limit global mean temperature increase to below two degrees Celsius. Analysis on several developing countries was added to . . . → Read More: Breaking: Still on the highway to hell Annual Climate Report Shows We Live in a Warming World: Global temperatures continued to increase in 2009, and atmospheric greenhouse gas levels also rose, according to a new “State of the Climate Report” from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The report, released today as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, . . . → Read More: Doc alert: State of the Climate report Michael Tobis has a comment in a discussion over at Collide-a-scape about the media and the state of climate science that’s worth repeating in full, even without the benefit of context: I was referring NOT to whether one accepts that there is a consensus or otherwise; this is widely discussed. I was also NOT referring to whether . . . → Read More: Tobis wins comment of the week Paul Krugman takes on the climate bill debacle and asks the pointed question, Who Cooked the Planet? After making the point that the bill didn’t fail because of the science, scientists, or economics (and I certainly agree with him on these points), he turns to why it did fail: The answer is, the usual suspects: greed . . . → Read More: Krugman’s climate bill post mortem: “Greed and cowardice” Alison Wiley has an excellent post up on her blog, A Diamond Cut life, My New Approach To Climate Change. While you should read everything Alison says, if only to let her readjust your bearings after you hang out on sites like this one with all the speeds and feeds numbers freaks, this post really . . . → Read More: The consequences of youthful indiscretions I thought a lot about what to say about the visible-from-orbit, toxic, flaming train wreck that the US climate bill turned into, but luckily I don’t have to — Dave Roberts over at Grist has a post up that nails it perfectly. A few excerpts that stood out, even in that excellent summary: Blame where it . . . → Read More: Ditto what Dave Roberts said about the climate bill train wreck To answer the question at the end of the clip: Yes, in fact I have considered how much my world depends on petroleum . . . → Read More: Hydrocarbon Man |
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