To drive the point home in the Fukushima post below, all power sources have their tragic flaws. Are the record high temperatures afflicting much of the nation a result of global warming driven by fossil fuels? Best answer, maybe: [Read more…]
The end of the world as we know it is fast approaching, according to some scientists, and it may be close enough now that millions of people already alive will live to see it happen: [Read more…]
That is one nasty storm track! The storm has since moved over northern Florida and the track updated, and Beryl is not a dangerous storm by Florida standards (Trust me on THIS), but that is one hell of a track. If a big storm did that, just a cat 2 or cat 3, the damage would be in the hundreds of billions.
In climate change models one of many wild cards is the ancient methane stored in the bottom of shallow icy seas and sequestered away in Arctic permafrost. As the surface temperature warms, the potent greenhouse gas could be released, further warming the region and causing more methane ‘burps’. The process could theoretically feed back and run away, quickly: [Read more…]
Let’s follow the arc of just one wingnut whopper. It starts as a seed in the form of a flatly untrue headline by none other than Fox News shouting out ‘scientists say dinos farted themselves to extinction’. Ahem: [Read more…]
The K-T impact site in southeast Mexico as revealed by surface features and geophysical analysis
That’s what the headline says sans the question mark I put in at the end, added because I am skeptical. And while it’s certainly interesting research, it’s fair to say that header looks a teensy-tiny bit over the top, perhaps intended to grab pageviews. Which in all fairness seems to have worked! [Read more…]
When last we heard from the Heartland Insitute, they were reeling from a leaked document revealing their duplicity and hypocrisy. The same jokers are back with an ad campaign comparing climate scientists to murderers and madmen like bin Laden and the Unibomber: [Read more…]
Didn’t think of this, but it makes sense. The warmer it gets, the more salt gets concentrated or removed depending on which way the water to vapor cycle has been trending: [Read more…]
Yippee, more great news. This time from the planet’s primary air conditioner and sea level manager, which may be way more sensitive to small increases in temperature than some researchers thought: [Read more…]
Are people starting to “get” global warming. Maybe, at least according to the poll below. Sad to say, this is what passes for ‘good news’ in climate change. [Read more…]