New Jersey Governor Chris Christi has ticked off movement conservatives in a lot of ways. One of them was recognizing the role climate change can play in tropical cyclones. It’s hard to say for sure from a single off the cuff comment, but he may now be considering a run for the wingnut vote: MotherJones …
Category Archive: Climate Change
May 20 2013
Tornado forms and devastates Oklahoma on cue
Like something out of The Day After Tomorrow, a massive EF5 twister formed while cable news stations covered it live and swept through neighborhoods and schools in and around Oklahoma City this afternoon. Death and destruction is just now starting to emerge and if there any readers in that region, please, let us know …
May 17 2013
Who could have predicted 97% of all climate scientists accept human induced warming?
Who coulda predicted? Umm, anyone who can read at the third grade level? Click image for details.
May 13 2013
Last time CO2 levels were this high we lived in trees
The difference between 399 parts per million of carbon dioxide and 400 ppm isn’t much, but new data from NOAA shows that that thresh-hold has now been crossed. The last time earth saw levels this high it was a very different place:
Apr 05 2013
Muscle car 2013
We all have our weaknesses, one of mine happens to be muscle cars. Which over my fifty year lifetime has always meant oil-powered carbon-spewing road monsters. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and in fact it cannot remain that way, for a bunch of reasons I’m sure you all know well. So it’s …
Mar 18 2013
Of global temperatures and tropical cyclones
Most people understand that a hurricane is a vast, natural heat engine fueled by warm surface sea water. It follows then that, all other things being equal, warmer sea surface temps mean more intense tropical storms and hurricanes. But all things are decidedly not equal. windshear, loop currents, upswells, wave height and depth, and watery downdrafts …
Feb 24 2013
Mars flyby and other links
This was supposed to be a secret until this coming Wednesday, and it was secret, right up until someone spilled the beans almost a week early: Buzz is building about a planned 2018 private mission to Mars, which may launch the first humans toward the Red Planet. A nonprofit organization called the Inspiration Mars Foundation …
Feb 10 2013
New poll on climate offers hope
A new poll on climate change and Americans’ opinions on it has rebounded sharply for the better. A large majority now accept the climate is or probably is changing and that it’s due in part to human activity:
Feb 05 2013
Research station that walks on water
Now this is clever. Aside from cracking and melting, floating ice shelves in Antarctica move in more predictable ways. Think of mountains of warm, flowing cheese. The ice-snow mixtures that make up ice shelves are flowing to the coast and out to sea. That means research stations will be lost, unless they can move:
Jan 28 2013
Pristine samples from under-ice lake hit paydirt
Scientists successfully retrieved the first samples from a buried lake in Antarctica today. Initial reports are there’s already some fossil gold in hand:
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