Climate scientists not pushing back against denialism, says American...
A story Sunday in the Los Angeles Times reported that climate scientists were joining in an effort to "push back" against a rise tide of climate change denial. The story said that Monday the American...
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“Hockey Stick” scientist Mann’s letter in the WSJ
Michael Mann has been pilloried by climate change denialists for showing in a clear graphic form that the climate is as warm now as it has been in a thousand years. At the AGU this year, he pointed out...
View ArticleResearchers find high levels of mercury in CA coastal fog
This is the story I found at this year's fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union — how fog off California's coastal coast may be importing mercury from the ocean on to the land. The team, led...
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Is it too late to stop climate change? (the Onion)
Reporting from Geneva, the Not the New York Times: A new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned Monday that global warming is likely to become completely irreversible if...
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Toles on crazy Italians who jail earthquake scientists
A "Tsketch" from Toles: Here's the background. Interesting that the AGU took a position on the issue.
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Atmospheric River press conference at AGU 2012
This press conference at the AGU (American Geophysical Union's fall meeting) this year is brilliantly timed, coming just two years after a series of big AR storms surprised Southern California, and a...
View ArticleTerrifying geoengineering ideas: Ray Pierrehumbert at AGU
At his much-lauded (and deservedly so) AGU lecture on Successful Predictions (of global warming, a brief history) the delightfully witty Ray Pierrehumbert was asked about the feasibility of...
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If climate change is dangerous, can’t a scientist say so? (Hansen’s keynote...
Back in l988, physicist/climatologist James Hansen told Congress that that we had begun to change the earth's atmosphere. This was during a heat wave in Washington, and his testimony made headlines....
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No uninteresting things: Chesterton and Redmond
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. I've seen a lot of talks on a lot of specific topics, mostly climatological, at scientific conferences, but at the AGU's fall meeting this...
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Jerry Brown challenges Trump on climate
In a fiery speech on science, climate, and policy at the American Geophysical Union today, Gov. Jerry Brown challenged the “miasma of nonsense” from the incoming Trump administration on climate...
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