Urban Heat Islands as Explanation for Hockey Stick Global Warming Curve
Urban areas can be warmer than surrounding non-urban areas because there is a lot of combustion, pavement and other structure can collect solar heat and retain it for a while, and other factors. It is...
View ArticleShawn Otto’s Book Launch Talk (with Don Shelby)
You’ll remember that I recently wrote up Shawn Otto’s talk at The Loft. The talk was filmed and is now a major motion picture! Now that you’ve seen the talk, here’s your list of things to do: Buy the...
View ArticleA Republican and Climate Change Skeptic Talks About Climate Change
Here’s the talk: And here’s the web site. Eventually, there will probably be a book.
View ArticleSilent Summer: Global warming is real, folks
Hot off the presses (stolen summarily from Here). This land temperature anomoly video showing both the growth of the global dataset and global warming was shown by the BEST group to Congress just a few...
View ArticleHackers Release More Emails Stolen from Scientists …
For now, a press release. More later: WASHINGTON (Nov. 22, 2011)–In an apparent effort to discredit climate science, hackers again posted stolen emails from leading climate scientists online today,...
View ArticleThe Inquisition of Climate Science
I’m enjoying James Lawrence Powell’s book “The Inquisition of Climate Science” Powell’s book specifically addresses the clilmate change denialist movement and the global warming deniers themselves, and...
View Articlestudy links climate to severe habitat loss
In a world first, University of Queensland and CSIRO scientists have measured the relationship between current climate, climate change and habitat loss on plants and animals on a global scale. Their...
View ArticlePeter Gleick: Climate change is happening
Gleick is the new board member of the National Center for Science Education.
View ArticleMelting Ice and Sea Level Rise
If all the water currently trapped in all the glaciers across the entire world melted, the sea level would rise far more than most people imagine. Almost everyone living anywhere in the world at an...
View ArticleBreatkthrough at Lake Vostok
Rumors have been in the air for days, but we now think it confirmed that Russian Scientsts have penetrated the liquid part of Antarctica’s Lake Vostok. The lake has been frozen over for something like...
View ArticleClimate Smart and Energy Wise
Climate Smart & Energy Wise: Advancing Science Literacy, Knowledge, and Know-How by Mark McCaffrey is a book written primarily for teachers, to give them the information and tools they need to...
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