The previous Christmas-time tornado record was 12. We beat that by quite a bit this year:
Category Archive: Climate Change
Dec 23 2012
Dreaming of a white Christmas
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:
Dec 10 2012
Of science and pseudoscience
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:
Nov 30 2012
Post em if you got em
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!
Nov 24 2012
Prepping for climate change
I guess when you live near a coast, humoring nutcases and think-tanks isn’t as attractive:
Nov 13 2012
Snowball earth: send in the clouds
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 …
Nov 12 2012
Antarctic sea ice mystery coming into clearer focus
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 …
Nov 11 2012
Now climate change is personal
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!
Nov 03 2012
Did climate change cause Sandy?
Did Sandy happen because of global climate change? Answer: It’s quite possible according to one of the world’s leading climate science experts, Dr. Michael Mann from Penn Sate University and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From The Front Lines:
Oct 02 2012
Half the Great Barrier Reef is gone
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 …
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