Today, a group of the nation’s leading experts on climate science sent a brief letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The message is simple: include climate change in the review of the Keystone XL pipeline. From that letter: At the moment, your department is planning to consider the effects of the pipeline on “recreation,” […]
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Scientists Simple Plea to Secretary Clinton
July 17th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Tags: climate change
“Welcome to the rest of our lives”
July 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on “Welcome to the rest of our lives”
“Welcome to the rest of our lives“ is the latest video from someone who should be one of the world’s most important videographers, Peter Sinclair (or Greenman3610). Peter has, for years now, focused his efforts on confronting global warming denialism and providing stark evidence of the truth that shows denialist arguments to be deceptive fraud. […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · environmental · Global Warming
Will Mitt absorb this paper’s conclusions?
July 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments
A bit unreasonable, considering that the Deseret dominates with the Mormons in Utah, but is there reason to believe that Etch-A-Sketch Mitt Romney and other Mormons would pay more attention to the Salt Lake Tribune than many of the nation’s other leading newspapers? The Tribune‘s 7 July 2012 lead editorial’s title: A Hotter West: Climate […]
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Tipping point on climate change politics?
July 7th, 2012 · 3 Comments
This guest post from eOz derived from a response to something that I wrote commenting about how the fires in Colorado and heat records falling across the country seemed to have people thinking climate change. eOz’s thoughts merits a posting of its own. I also work with a variety of clients, many of whom buy […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming · guest post
Reality at the Tipping Point?
July 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Have humanity driven the climate system beyond the tipping point beyond which preventing catastrophic climate chaos is no longer a viable option? Have emergent catastrophic climate chaos, as evidenced in US wildfires and high temperature records falling like bowling pins, created a tipping point in American public opinion that might enable a movement toward actual […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · guest post
Speaking of Sea-Level Rise. Or, “Mom, don’t you know what I do for a living?”
July 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments
At the second annual Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) meeting on the military and climate change, John Englander gave a lunch-time talk based on his forthcoming book on sea-level rise: High-Tide on Main Street. Englander tried to structure his presentation as “non-partisan”, stating that his book aimed to reach people who might be ‘turned off’ by […]
Tags: catastrophic climate change · climate change · science
Calling on (out) Arianna
April 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment
This is a full reposting, at request, of a post by insightful science writer Shawn Lawrence Otto. The problems of questionable publishing on science issues is far (sadly) from limited to the mediocre post re the Denialist 49’s letter to NASA. There was, for example, Harold Ambler’s post re Vice President Gore which led Arianna […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · climate zombies · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism
Can you “Connect the Dots”?
April 14th, 2012 · 1 Comment
While the Cherry Blossoms peaked in Washington, DC, well before the Cherry Blossom festival peaked (and maple syrup production plummeted) while Texas experienced four-foot high ‘drifts’ of hail, while Alaska had near record snowfall while the lower 48 states broke 15,000 temperature records in March, 2015, with temperatures over 8 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal, […]
Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming · political symbols
Did John Kasich just become untenable as the Republican VP nominee?
April 10th, 2012 · Comments Off on Did John Kasich just become untenable as the Republican VP nominee?
When it comes to choosing people for the VP slot on the ticket, there are many ‘rule sets’ that seem to be in play: does the candidate have dangerous baggage? (Read Sarah Palin.) Can they handle media scrutiny and interviews? (Again, Sarah …) Can they help deliver a battleground state? (Again, Sarah …) Do they […]
Tags: 2012 Presidential Election · anti-science syndrome · climate change · republican party
March heat wave to cause panic buying?
March 23rd, 2012 · 1 Comment
When the tiniest bit of snow hits Washington, DC, area grocery stores can suddenly find their shelves (especially milk …) depleted with the hordes of panic buyers terrified of being caught without the liquid for their morning cereal. Amid March Madness, with “mind-boggling” high temperature records outpacing low temperature records more about 35 to 1 in North […]
Tags: agriculture · catastrophic climate change · climate change