CLIMATE SCIENCE
An elegant web video portrays chilling (or should we say warming?) satellite data about the declining volume of arctic sea ice. An ice free North Pole looks to be just around the corner.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
New scientific study confirms ‘Hockey Stick’: the rate of warming since 1900 is 50 times greater than the rate of cooling In previous 5000 years.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
“The natural state of the Earth with present carbon dioxide levels is one with sea levels about 70 feet higher than now,” says the lead author of a National Science Foundation funded study on the earth’s ancient climate patterns.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
You know things are bad when a global warming report titled “too late for two degrees?” isn’t written by an environmental organization, but a global financial services firm.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The U.S. is in the single worst drought since the 1950s, with more than half the country affected. Climatologists say climate change will make this kind of heat more likely in years to come.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
New heat records swamped cold records across the country in the month of march by a startling margin, prompting some in the climate science community to ask whether we are seeing evidence of global warming feedback loops.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Eight great charts that explain why we know that climate change is being caused by humans.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate Progress’s Joe Romm looks at the counterfactual: What if congressional conservatives and the president felt as passionately about reducing carbon emissions as they do about federal spending?
CLIMATE SCIENCE
In November, Rear Admiral David Titley, the Oceanographer of the Navy, testified that “the volume of ice as of last September has never been lower…in the last several thousand years.” Titley, who is also the Director of Navy’s Task Force [...]
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Last month I reported on a new paper by NASA’s James Hansen and Makiko Sato (see Hansen: “One sure bet is that this decade will be the warmest” on record). Kate at ClimateSight sighted a new color in the chart, [...]
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Year after year the worriers and fretters would come to me with awful predictions of the outbreak of war. I denied it each time. I was only wrong twice. -Senior British intelligence official, retiring in 1950 after 47 years of [...]
CLIMATE SCIENCE
To our dismay, and the nation’s detriment, self-described climate change deniers – strongly supported by fossil-fuel interests — continue to mislead Congress and the public. In late January, we joined 14 other leading scientists in writing a letter to every [...]
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Contrary to the claims of climate science deniers that snow storms are evidence against the existence of global warming, a cursory review of the scientific literature suggests that warmer temperatures actually cause more frequent and intense snow storms.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Climate journalists spent most of 2010 squabbling over stolen emails. Meanwhile, the science has become even more alarming. Here are Joe Romm’s top 10 developments in climate science for 2010.
Science Communication
Despite Fox News’s attempts to stir up controversy over the terminology of global warming, academics have been touting the more accurate term “global climate disruption” for years.
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