facing the fire

The dearth of posts here for the last month should be taken as an indication of progress and stress here at the home base. It is difficult t...

I've been seeing small news items over the past week or two saying that this year's Antarctic ozone hole has matched the previous re...

Last friday, Slate.com posted an article by Joel Waldfogel called "Go North, Young Grapes: The effect of global warming on the world...

This week's Nature has a short review article about the effect of variations in the Sun's luminosity on Earth's climate. In fact...

The observational confirmation of dark matter. [ LINK ] Far and away the most important science story for the month, and will definitely be ...

A nice blog entry has been posted over on Deltoid, of ScienceBlogs [ LINK ]. It shows Hansen's 1988 climate model predictions of global ...

"Wait, don't do it!" That was my first reaction after reading about Paul Crutzen's semi-crazy idea to ameliorate anthropog...

Having just spent my second consecutive night appreciating Brick on DVD, I wanted to take a moment out of our usual foray into climate scien...

The international astronomical union is going to vote on a new system for classifying heavenly bodies as planets [ LINK ]. Essentially the n...

If you ever scroll down the page, take note of a new feature here on Facing the Fire: "An Idiot List." It is just a static list of...

Competitive Enterprise Institute Ad - parody on Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel took the CEI add and spoofed it. The first half of the video is th...

Because I missed it on 19 July, I've been watching parts of the webcast of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing called Que...

During my morning procrastination, I came across two blog entries about Senator Inhofe's recent appearance on CNN. He is amazingly wrong...

Somehow I missed this Op-Ed in the LA Times yesterday by Naomi Oreskes [ LINK ]. It is called "Global Warming -- Signed, Sealed, and De...

First, I want to let you know that I am still interested in these "atmospheric rivers." I've tracked down some additional refe...

Well, in a small step toward more focused posts, I wanted to write a few thoughts about a short paper that is in Geophysical Research Letter...

GWB just said in his press conference this morning that he thinks there was a "reasonable" chance of shooting down that long-range...

I haven't posted much lately, I know. I don't know about you, but I've been overwhelmed with the various climate-related news, m...

Acclaimed skeptic Michael Shermer, head of the Skeptic Society among other things, has a recent column in Scientific American in which he ad...

Last hurricane season, I blogged a few times about Bill Gray, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University. For those of you out of...