Climate

Here's a whole set of things I can't make it to. The great thing about being on sa...

Demographic Transition: Cause and Effect

The egregious Dellingpole today suggests that "as GDP per capita increases, so peo...

Fifteen Years Ago

When I first started thinking and writing about anthropogenic climate change in th...

Videobreak: Lee Hotz – Inside an Antarctic time machine

Project home at NHU here. [h/ t Ezra Klein]

Broken Telephone

As children, we played a game we called "broken telephone" in which one person wou...

The (lack of) vision thing

I will admit upfront that there are many aspects of our current energy and climate...

[jules' pics] 9/02/2010 05:55:00 AM

Under the Top

It's pathetic. Economic activity has slowed down a little, but we're still an insa...

More for the Misleading Headline FIle

OK, here's a random article in a random magazine, journal, newspaper, blog, what h...

Both their Houses

I'm definitely a David Brin fan now. (not that Sergey is a slouch; are they relate...

IPCC review by InterAcademy Council IAC

I never said that!

I'm pleased to see that my recent paper, 'Climate Change: A Software Grand Challen...

[jules' pics] beach etiquette

IPCC procedures doorgelicht door IAC – Uit...

Constructing an analysis 1: Drop in a bucket

'Analysis' is what we call an attempt to represent the state of the atmosphere/ oc...

Global Warming Impact on Forests & Woodlands

Does wind power reduce carbon emissions? Counter-Response

Why I don't believe in the climate science

It’s time for a true confession. I don’t believe in climate science. That�...

Videobreak: Johan Rockström on planetary boundaries

The Lomborg Pivot

The climate blogosphere erupted yesterday with the news that Bjorn Lomborg has a n...

[jules' pics] 8/31/2010 05:28:00 AM

Sea ice on the blogs

Always a bit of a question whether I should comment elsewhere, or save my writing ...

What Kevin Trenberth Has to Say

A comment from Steve Bloom several months ago got me thinking about a new kind of ...

Pondering the role of scientists

Rick Piltz, over on ClimateScienceWatch has a thought provoking piece that begins ...

IPCC report card

Update: Nature has just published a thoughtful commentary on the report The Inter-...

The Cowardice of the Media

Another approach to understanding the cowardice of the media is to contemplate the...

Props for Jay

Jay Rosen is the person best at making sense of modern journalism, especially in A...

Mail, Eli gets mail

Ben Santer had dead rats thrown at his door, Phil Jones gets death threats, Joe Ro...

Virginia judge tosses out Cuccinelli attempt to subpoena Michael Mann’s records

An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has set aside a subpoena issued by Virgini...

Blogroll news

The updated blogroll has been in action since Satruday, but here's the note descri...

#66) 'Never Again' Moments: the CDC vs. the Climate Science Community (anthrax vs. Climategate)

Catastrophic events often bring about change. For example, Hurricane Katrina in 2...

#66) 'Never Again' Moments: the CDC vs. the Climate Science Community (anthrax vs. Climategate)

Catastrophic events often bring about change. For example, Hurricane Katrina in 2...

Andy Revkin's Rent Party

UPDATE: Joe Romm contributes generously to the rent party, with many links, Steve ...

Judy and the INTERTUBES

Over at Stoat (UPDATE: Wm is still not impressed) Judith Curry is learning about...

Jeff Masters nails the importance of the Northwest Passage opening

I'm still catching up after being away for three days, but I want to make sure the...

Prolific

Misc

SciBlogs

[Coby Deltoid Island Framing Hryn Stoat]

A coming quiet time

Any day now could be the start of a quiet period on the blog as my wife and I are ...

Scientific Perspectives on the Greenhouse Problem?

Jastrow, Nierenberg and Seitz vs Hansen

Solar power across the Sahara

Does it matter why?

So apparently, according to an "exclusive" in the Guardian, Bjørn Lomborg is abou...

Fun with asteroids

I haven't played Asteroids(tm) since the days when Atari was computer games King a...

Lomborg v Lomborg

It was twenty five years ago today

She's still just as adorable twenty five years later: Read the rest of this ...

Round in circles with Accelerated warming of the Southern Ocean and its impacts on the hydrological cycle and sea ice?

The strange case of Andy Revkin

Survey on attitudes towards climate science

Stephan Lewandowsky is conducting a survey on attitudes towards climate science an...

Counting your attitudes

Spend a few minutes at the link below to fill in an online survey about your attit...

Kinks

CCW - The Earth is carbon starved

Greenman's latest: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this p...

Open Thread 53

More open thread for everyone! Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments...

Northgate: another retraction

Hey, remember how the Sunday Times retracted that bogus Jonathan Leake story which...

Heidi "Weather of the future" Cullen on Stephen Colbert

Explaining global cooling

Nierenberg vs Oreskes, round 2 (or maybe 3; I lose track)

Adaptation 101

As in the example I just highlighted, we climate mitigation advocates are frequent...

Quote mining 101

So over at Keith Kloor's place, we see Keith read a comment of Michael Tobis', (re...

Oceanic acidification: just the facts

Monbiot.com » Right and Wrong

I know we have a few denizens of the lands down under (I include New Zeland in tha...

Another week of GW News, August 22, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you ...

Worst graph ever

Great video on Arctic sea ice

Via a new blog started up this summer, Fool me Once (sounds like wishful thinking ...

Accelerated warming of the Southern Ocean and its impacts on the hydrological cycle and sea ice?

The Church of Monckton

Barry Bickmore is compiling a list of the politicians, journalists etc who have da...

Curry jumps the shark

Q&A Fun with candidate for congress

The question: Do you believe that human-caused global warming exists? If so, ho...

Arthur Smith on Kloor's pattern of deception

Arthur Smith details a pattern of deception in Keith Kloor's writing. Kloor's res...

The "CO2 is Plant Food" Crock

Peter Sinclair's latest video is on the "CO2 is plant food" crock. Read the ...

Stubai, again

A new Hockey Stick: McShane and Wyner 2010

Seems that there's some excitement about a new paper A Statistical Analysis of Mul...

Another week of GW News, August 15, 2010

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you ...

Keeping Media Eyes Wide OpenOn Carbon Capture and Sequestration

The 'Holy Grail' of carbon reduction. A silver bullet to help solve the climate cr...

An Alternative Land Temperature RecordMay Help Allay Critics' Data Concerns

Critics often complain that the three major surface temperature records �" NASA's...

'Science Friday''s Ira Flatow:Selling Science by Weekly Radio

Growing up on Long Island, New York, Ira Flatow enjoyed dabbling with television s...

Miller-McCune — Nonprofit Publisher …'Intelligent and Compelling Journalism'

Most journalists these days would love to have the choice John Mecklin faced three...

Rutgers Climatologist Tony BroccoliOn Communicating Climate Science

Tony Broccoli has spent the past two decades working to engage lay audiences about...

Mourning the Huge Loss of a 'Giant':Stanford Climatologist Stephen H. Schneider

View larger image Schneider and wife Terry Root at 2008 Rothbury Festival Global...

Black Carbon's Grey Areas:Key Messages from a Yale Workshop

Black carbon, a component of soot, and potentially one of the most important contr...

Environmental Reporters Receiving Training,To Cover Climate Change in Developing World

Change is afoot in the number of international journalists in developing countries...

Oreskes/Conway's Merchants of DoubtDraws Extensive Climate Denier Connections

In their climate science history book Merchants of Doubt, authors Naomi Oreskes an...

Deepwater Oil Drilling: Not That New,But Not That Much Known Either?

Until BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion in April and continuing oil spill crisis in...

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Fear of Wolf Predation Is Not Slowing Over-Browsing by Elk

A new study contradicts the widely held hypothesis that fear of recently reintrodu...

Commercial Organic Farms Produce Superior Soil and Fruit, Study Says

The most comprehensive study to date comparing commercial organic farms with conve...

A Steady, Steep Decline for The Lowly, Uncharismatic Eel

The freshwater eel, which spawns in the middle of the ocean, was once abundant in ...

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon Dropped 48 Percent in Last Year, Agency Says

Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research reported that deforestation in th...

New U.S. Ratings System Proposed For Vehicle Emissions and Efficiency

The Obama administration has proposed adding new labels to showroom vehicles that ...

Climate Change Skeptic Changes Stance and Calls for Action

In an upcoming book, high-profile global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg acknowledge...

'Fundamental' IPCC Reforms Proposed by Independent Scientific Group

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs to fundamentally change...

European Biofuel Targets Spurring ‘Grabs’ of African Farmland

European renewable energy targets are driving widespread conversion of African lan...

The Effect of Clouds on Climate: A Key Mystery for Researchers

As climate scientists wrestle with the complexities of how the planet will react t...

Damage In Russia Fires Exacerbated by Putin’s Policies, Advocates Say

Environmentalists say rampant wildfires during this summer’s heat wave cost Russ...

World’s Largest Solar Plant Nears Approval in California Desert

U.S. officials are expected to approve by this fall what would be the world’s bi...

First Genetically-Altered Fish for Human Consumption Reviewed in U.S.

U.S. officials are reviewing an application for what would be the first geneticall...

Canada Lists BPA as Toxic

The Canadian government is adding bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in thousands...

Spurred by Warming Climate, Beetles Threaten Coffee Crops

Coffee production has long been vulnerable to drought or excess rains. But recentl...

Electric Car Made of Hemp Is Developed by Canadian Collaborative

A group of Canadian companies is developing an electric vehicle made of hemp, a co...

World’s Smallest Frog Discovered in Forests of Borneo

Researchers tracking the planet’s rarest amphibians have discovered what they sa...

Americans Used Less Energy And More Renewables in 2009, Study Shows

U.S. energy use fell in 2009 and Americans used more wind and solar power and less...

Researchers Identify Proteins That Help Plants Survive Drought

U.S. researchers have identified the set of proteins within living plants that hel...

Most Oil Spills in Niger Delta Not Caused By Shell, UN Said to Conclude

A three-year investigation by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) will...

Australia Set to Build Largest Wind farm in Southern Hemisphere

Australian officials plan to build a 140-turbine wind farm in Victoria, the nation...

On China’s Beleaguered Yangtze, A Push to Save Surviving Species

The Yangtze has been carved up by dams, used as an open sewer, and subjected to de...

Global Growth of Plants Is Offset by Drought, New Study Shows

The steady growth of global plant productivity in the 1980s and 1990s, spurred by ...

Renewable Energy Use in Europe Continues to Grow Rapidly, New Report Says

The use of renewable sources of energy in Europe continues to grow at a brisk pace...

Amazon Dam Projects Are Mapped in New Online Database

A new online database maps more than 140 dams being built or planned in the Amazon...

Extent of Mangrove Forests Is Less Than Previous Estimates, Survey Shows

The first comprehensive survey of the world’s mangrove forests using satellite i...

How Marketplace Economics Can Help Build a Greener World

Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what th...

New Whiskey Biofuel Is Developed by Scottish Scientists

Scottish researchers have developed what they call a “super� biofuel using by-p...

Nearly Extinct Toad To Be Re-Introduced Into the Wild

The Kihansi spray toad, which last year was declared extinct in the wild, has been...

Spike In Ocean Temperatures Causes Massive Coral Bleaching off Indonesia

A spike in ocean temperatures has devastated coral reef populations off the Indone...

U.S. Public is Clueless On Best Ways to Save Energy, Study Says

Many Americans believe they can conserve energy by taking relatively inconsequenti...

Low-Cost Solar Array Developed for Residential Installation

A Seattle-based company says that it has developed an inexpensive do-it-yourself s...

The U.S.’s Greenest Colleges

The Sierra Club has ranked the most environmentally friendly colleges and universi...

LEED Building Standards Fail to Protect Human Health

LEED certification has emerged as the green standard of approval for new buildings...

Beaver Born in UK Wild for First Time in Four Centuries

Scottish conservationists say the first beaver born in Britain in nearly 400 years...

St. Lucia Enters Agreement to Develop and Export Geothermal Power

The government of St. Lucia has signed an agreement with a U.S.-based company to d...