Everyone loves a white Christmas, but if climate change marches on for much longer there could be less and less white during the holiday season down under: [Read more…]

One way to know you’re dealing with scientific theory is it makes testable predictions. So it is with the theory of climate change 20 years ago, and now we know, the predictions were valid: [Read more…]

No way to know if the lady in the video is legit or part of a marketing scheme. But I want to see the movie anyway. Until then, I’m looking for cool science articles to link tomorrow on the Daily Kos science thread. Post em in comments with a brief description if you got em!

I guess when you live near a coast, humoring nutcases and think-tanks isn’t as attractive: [Read more…]

There’s a fascinating theory in paleoclimate circles called Snowball Earth. A change in climate, possibly started in whole or in part by increasing free oxygen in the atmosphere and a reduction in CO2, created an ice age on steroids. An ancient earth covered from poles to equator in ice is one extreme possible outcome, but there’s one big headache: earth would never-never get out of it! Snow and ice are so reflective that our planet would stay encased, frigid and frozen, to this day. That’s where a new idea rides to the rescue … [Read more…]

One of the measurements climate change deniers, like to use for obfuscation are changes in coastal Antarctic sea ice. The changes are small compared to the rapid loss up north, but some of them are increases. Naturally, the same people who pay attention to every microgram of gain down under somehow manage to dismiss the glaring losses happening in the Great White North — not to mention the thousands of thermometers the world over — but when a couple of hundred miles of sea ice apepars down south they are on it bay-bay! Well, that’s how their particular right-wing con works. But now some researchers have a tentative explanation for the observation: [Read more…]

In 2004 and 2005 I watched pieces of my house peel off into the windy rain along with other bits of my comfy Space Coast neighborhood. But this, THIS, makes climate change perosnal for me! [Read more…]

Just in case you lucky duckies down under feel left out of the incredible shrinking Arctic ice cap adventure, you have an exquisite shrinking biome to call your own. A new analysis indicates that roughly half the coral in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia has gone the way of the Dodo bird, and it did so in less than 30 years. [Read more…]