The Wettest Drought On Record: Torrential Rain Can’t Bring Much Of England...
Even with the wettest April on record, some areas of England are still facing “exceptional” drought conditions. After two years of dry winters — including the fifth-driest March — the ground hasn’t...
View ArticleCold Cash, Cool Climate: Using Entrepreneurial Innovation To Solve The...
by Rick Piltz, via Climate Science Watch Jonathan Koomey’s new book, Cold Cash, Cool Climate : Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs , offers a concise, compelling analysis of why...
View ArticleMust-See TEDx Video: If You Want Them To Remember, Tell A Story
JR: I’m a big fan of narratives and their rhetorical cousins, extended metaphors , as I discuss in my forthcoming book. This video is a must-see for those who want to be better communicators. by Tom...
View ArticleNew Mexico Wildfire Now a Record-Setting ‘Megafire’, Budget Cuts In Congress...
by Andrew Freedman, via Climate Central The largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history continues to burn, having already charred an area larger than New York City. Known as the Whitewater-Baldy Fire...
View ArticleHow Biodiversity Loss is Like LeBron James & Miami Heat
JR: With game 7 of Heat vs. Celtics tonight , it seems like an apt time for this repost. AP photo by Michael D. Lemonick, via Climate Central Ecologists have been saying for decades now that the world...
View ArticleSalvatore Colleluori: Mark Landsbaum: OC Register ‘s Resident Climate Science...
The Orange County Register 's stance on climate change and efforts to contain greenhouse gases that contribute to the current warming trends isn't exactly in line with widely accepted scientific data....
View ArticleU.S. Sees Hottest 12 Months And Hottest Half Year On Record: NOAA Calls...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its chart-filled “ State of the Climate Global Analysis ” for June 2012: The big stories are the heat and drought: The average...
View ArticleEvery Network Gets Extreme Weather Story Right, ‘Now’s The Time We Start...
I have been critical of the media for ignoring the link between man-made global warming and the off-the-charts extreme weather we have been seeing. And many have documented how they have been...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich On Blackout And Record Heat Wave: Forget Climate, Let’s Worry...
Newt Gingrich tests virtual reality goggles. With drought baking one third of counties across the country, an historic wildfire that torched the arid landscape of Colorado, and record heat and violent...
View ArticleUPDATE: Without Carbon Controls, We Face Many More Dust Bowls; 2002-2004...
Last week, the NY Times online asked me to contribute to their “ Room for Debate .” The questions were “Is the current drought raising the possibility of another Dust Bowl? If so, what can we do to...
View ArticleThe misery of the moderate Republican
The frustration of one moderate Republican House member boiled over today, with Ohio Rep.
View ArticleClimate Code Red
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/04/634901/arctic-death-spiral-continues-new-record-low-sea-ice-volume-appears-likely.
View ArticleVideo: Chronicling The Extreme 2012 Drought
by Peter Sinclair, via Climate Change and the Media A basketball metaphor illustrating changing stats pairs with analyses from a range of experts and independent commentaries in a Yale Forum video...
View ArticleAddressing Our Looming Climate Bankruptcy
by Frank Lowenstein and Evan Girvetz, via Planet Change In the wake of the economic crash of 2008, the resilience of millions of Americans’ personal finances collapsed in the face of unexpected...
View ArticleWhy The Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral Matters
Arctic sea ice extent takes a nosedive this year. What does it mean for us? (Source: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ) By Neven Acropolis with Kevin McKinney In the past week the Arctic sea ice...
View ArticleClimate Change: How The Wet Will Get Wetter And The Dry Will Get Drier
How much extra energy are we putting in the atmosphere through emission of greenhouse gases? One Australian researcher put it into context : “The radiative forcing of the CO2 we have already put in...
View ArticleJill Fitzsimmons: "Utter Nonsense": 10 Scientists Who Have Criticized Fox’s...
An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that 93 percent of Fox News' recent climate change coverage was misleading. Over the last two years, several leading scientists have told Media...
View ArticleClimate’s Clint Eastwood: Joe Nocera Mis-Cites Me TWICE In Failed Effort To...
Memo to Nocera: You really need to issue a retraction and multiple apologies, rather than writing yet another error-riddled smear job on Hansen. The good news is that I’m home from Johns Hopkins, sans...
View ArticleDenier Delingpole Wishes For ‘Climate Nuremberg’, Says ‘Hanging Is Far Too...
If the UK Telegraph does not retract and apologize for James Delingpole’s latest piece of pure hate speech , then it is declaring its own publication policies a sham.
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Will Create Only 35 Permanent Jobs, Emit 51 Coal Plants’...
Today, Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he wasn’t touching the Keystone pipeline decision with a ten-foot pole: “I am staying as far away from that as I can...
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