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I spend most of my time thinking about clouds in the tropics and subtropics, but lately there's been a lot of mainstream coverage of the...

It has been far too long since my last post... the casual blogger's constant lament. In my own defense, a lot has happened in the past f...

So apparently people now think they can make money by throwing iron into the ocean... YES, throwing iron into the ocean. Here's the, act...

Here's a quick story that seems like it is important. I will refrain from any interpretation of speculation here. Army funds supercomput...

For lack of time and energy to blog, please go read an update about our friend Phil Cooney: Ex-Bush Aide Challenged on Climate Reports - New...

So you by now know, I hope, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued it's Fourth Assessment Report of working group...

Well, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, 2006 was even warmer than 2005. That means, if you haven't been keeping sco...

I don't have time to really think too hard about this story, but it is making the rounds, so I'll at least acknowledge it. Some NCAR...

A small story, ultimately of no consequence, suggesting the "need" for a Nobel Prize for the Environment: LINK . Funny as it may s...

Today's little tidbit is a short news story about a Journal of Climate paper [ LINK ]. The paper is about a climate simulation that incl...

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...