facing the fire

Looking forward to the debate on climate change legislation, Paul Krugman takes the ethical position that action is urgently needed [ LINK ]...

Just a quick mention of an interesting study that I saw today. Three researchers from NASA and Purdue have a paper in the Journal of Physica...

Well, after yesterday's brief glimmer of hope, I read a similar article in the NYTimes.com [ link ]. This essentially gets back to the p...

Just read an interesting article about plans for the upcoming UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen [ LINK ]. Apparently the world leade...

I recently read a book called The Ethics of Climate Change by James Garvey, who is a philosopher. Rather than go into any details of the boo...

Over the past week or so, I've noticed a number of articles and posts about the Arctic. There seems to be some kind of ongoing flap abou...

So Japan's PM says that the country is going to reduce carbon emissions by 2020 to 75% of 1990 emissions [ LINK ], but is requiring othe...

An op-ed piece by Michael Lynch in the New York Times suggests that "peak oil theory" is just a myth [ LINK ]. Really what he'...

One of the scariest blog posts I've ever read: Tamino's Open Mind . I haven't been following these developments on possible evid...

I just read, and quite enjoyed, a Slate article by Nina Shen Rastogi looking back at the acid rain problems of the 1980s [ LINK ]. She bring...

The dearth of posts the last week or so has been because of a ramp-up of activity around here, including giving talks, traveling and buying ...

I've never really wanted a Nissan before, but this looks pretty sweet: the Nissan Leaf, an all-electric hatchback. [ News ]

I am finally giving in and starting what I'm sure will become a series of updates on the emerging warm-phase of the ENSO phenomenon, nam...

This is fun: World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vim...

Here is Dara O'Brian saying things more convincingly than most more serious folks: This video was drawn to my attention by Phil Plait...

I was just reading a Grist article about India wanting a global agreement on combatting climate change, while at the same time opposing bind...

Below find a nice short film about fossil-fuel based life. It's in German (w/English subtitles), and focuses on a German audience. Is th...

The singularity is the hypothesized moment when artificial intelligence becomes as intelligent as humans. At that point, machines might hav...

A study about precipitation patterns in the Mediterranean region finds that there is a ubiquitous decrease [ LINK ]. The news article doesn...

I just sat down to have a quick look at some of the (too many) RSS feeds I subscribe to, and I clicked on ClimateArk.org , which is essentia...