facing the fire

Well, since we've been thinking about the tropical Pacific, here's a bit more to ponder. There is an ongoing discussion in the liter...

I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise, but it is now official: Copenhagen will not be the venue for a binding international agreement ...

The Climate Prediction Center recently released a new El Nino Advisor [ link ]. The advisory says essentially that all indicators suggest th...

Well, I just learned that NCAR has a whole bunch of videos posted on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ncarucar . These are videos about the r...

Everything that this woman says is completely wrong. I'm amazed that someone can be so wrong in such a short span of time. Did you watch...

Well, as expected, the republicans left the committee meeting yesterday, so no quorum could be established. There have been a lot of analogi...

Well, while I've been neglecting the blog, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has been arguing over the Kerry-Boxer Clima...

And today we have less positive numbers. This is a newer poll of 1500 Americans, conducted by Abt/SRBI Inc. for the Pew Research Center [ LI...

There was a survey conducted in the Fall of 2008 that asked detailed questions about climate-related issues. The study was conducted by the ...

Just was directed to a mesmerizing animation of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season via Jeff Masters . You definitely should go and watch. T...

I've been passively listening to some of the reaction to Google Wave lately. Yesterday (via Daring Fireball), I found a blog post by Da...

Well, I took the Pew Research Center's science knowledge quiz, and as you can see, I did quite well. Go take the quiz yourself: LINK .

On BBC.co.uk a story by Paul Hudson appeared with the title "What happened to global warming?" [ LINK ]. My opinion of this articl...

I just read an excerpt from Amanda Little's book Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells—Our Ride to the Renewable Future on Grist [ L...

Hey, I think this week's Crock of the Week by Peter Sinclair really shows how climate change deniers are chomping at the bit to get anyt...

It isn't a government agency, it's just a coalition of large businesses in the US. Really, it's a lobbying organization for thes...

So Carol Browner (director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy) says there's very little chance Congress (that...

Okay, nothing really to do with climate change.... yet. But I just learned what a blobfish is. Perhaps one of natures least lovable animals ...

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...