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This guest post from Veritas Curat provides a valuable look at how the science of economics drives answers that undermine humanity’s prospects. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world it is destructive. If you take an introductory course in economics, the professor, in the first lecture, will show a slide of the economy, […]

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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 guest post comes from meteorologist Paul Douglas.  His simple, powerful, and straightforward conclusion is one that we hope American voters follow this Tuesday. elect politicians who still respect sound science. Were you impacted by “Nor’easter-cane” Sandy?” Statisticians will debate whether it was a 1 in 100 year storm — or something worse. Insurance companies […]

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This guest post by Michael Mann comes courtesy of The Daily Climate which is a non-profit news service covering climate change issues. James Hansen’s latest findings linking extreme weather to climate change is science society cannot afford to ignore. The first scientist to alert Americans to the prospect that human-caused climate change and global warming […]

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In discussion of one of my recent posts, Kyril reacted to a questionable question from another commentator with perhaps the clearest differentiation between a science skeptic and denier that I have ever seen. As we seek to inform others about the perils of anti-science syndrome, such a clear (if perhaps sophomoric) differentiation might have value. Kyril’s […]

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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 […]

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This guest post comes from James Wells who eloquently and passionately is outlining the detrimental implications of short-term thinking embrace of coal exports. The phrase, arriving in the middle of a deeply technical presentation, stood out for everything it said in just one sentence. “They’re just going to be rounded out of existence, because they […]

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This guest post comes from Magnifico. Shell Oil is on its way right now to a location less than 15 miles from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. “Shell has proposed drilling up to four shallow water exploration wells in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea this summer, beginning on July 1,” Subsea World News reported last month. […]

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