Are you starting to have “Ground Hog” moments every time you see another headline announcing that another heat record has fallen? Those headlines are become mantra-like in scope. This comes to mind because we’ve been besieged with tons of headlines in the latest news cycle telling us that July set the record for the hottest […]
It’s sobering to the extreme when the man reputed to be the world’s top climate scientists–who has been roundly denounced for decades by climate change deniers–now says that he was “too optimistic” when he sounded warnings about the warming planet back in 1988. Tomorrow, James Hansen and his colleagues will release a new analysis of […]
Is anyone out there really surprised that the U.S., under Obama, has green-lighted the southern leg of the 1,700 mile pipeline that would bring the world’s filthiest crude from the Alberta tar-sands to the Gulf Coast? Obama’s decision to postpone final approval until after–coincidentally enough–the presidential election was such an overt political move that it […]
The news this week that climate change could be linked to the loss of critical ozone protection was a genuine shocker. Harvard University scientists published their findings online in the journal Science. Essentially, the scientists found that strong summer thunderstorms can pump water high into the upper atmosphere–the normally dry stratosphere–which can trigger events that […]
The data was so “extraordinary” that scientists thought there had to be a mistake: 97 percent of Greenland’s ice sheet was melting. What’s typical during summer in Greenland? Melting on about 50 percent of the ice sheet. But a review of the data showed no error: over a four-day period in July, the melting spread […]