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Last week, the Climate Reality Project (Al Gore) ran a 24 event on “Dirty Weather”. Here, in a few minutes, is a foot-tapping musical outline of why climate change is such a challenge and what we must do in the face of climate reality. It is the only Earth that we’ll ever have … This […]

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In the event that your nights are too tranquil, might I suggest some bedside reading from the (typically) staid World Bank?  Turn Down the Heat‘s subtitle is tellingly revealing: “Why a 4 Degree C Warmer World Must Be Avoided”.  Bankers — especially international bankers — and banker analysts don’t typically hyperventilate.  This tendency underlines why […]

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This is another excellent guest post by Muskegon Critic … Lake Michigan and Huron are within a couple inches of breaking all time low water levels on record, and now climate change is emerging as the leading cause. It works like this: warmer weather –> less ice cover in the winter –> more evaporation [We’re […]

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This evening, PBS will start broadcasting the latest of film documentarian Ken Burns’ treatises on significant periods and issues of American history. THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away […]

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While there are many celebratory discussions and pronouncements about reduced U.S. emissions due to natural gas displacing coal, some voices caution that all may not be as it seems.  There is a hidden problem that may — or may not — be within the accounting.  Errant methane may blow away the claimed greenhouse gains from […]

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This guest post comes from Muskegon Critic. Put away the shine and the polish. Put away the talking heads and their excellent hair and confidence opining with a certainty that is inversely proportional to their accuracy. Give me a guy with callouses on his hands speaking from the heart, a woman speaking from experience, the […]

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In his 14 November press conference, President Obama took a serious question about climate change. Amid his response, So what I’m going to be doing over the next several weeks, next several months, is having a conversation, a wide-ranging conversation with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what can — what more can […]

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President Obama held a press conference earlier today. Perhaps due to coming from a city still reeling from a climate disruption fed disaster, Hurricane Sandy, the New York Times White House reporter asked a strong question on climate change.  Here is Mark Landler‘s interaction with President Obama: PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Just going to knock through a […]

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This simple and to the point guest post comes from Greg Laden. I have two questions: Which high power storms had zero extra energy from warming in the atmosphere and seas owing to the release of fossil carbon? Which high powered members of the military, other government units, or industry and business had zero extramarital […]

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Starting at 8 pm (east coast) tonight, starting in New York City, Al Gore is running another “24 Hours of Reality” — bringing searing (and searingly accurate) discussions of climate disruption reality, from a global perspective and, hour-by-hour, regional discussions. Whether scorched by hot temperature records, burned out of home by wild fires, sitting in […]

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