2011-03-27

African biomass burning (part 1?)

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The amount of area and material that is burned each year in tropical Africa is staggering. The series of maps shown here is from NASA, showi...
2011-03-04

Glory of the sea?

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I recently wrote about the Glory satellite mission [ LINK ]. Early this morning, the rocket carrying Glory to orbit was launched from Vanden...
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George Will want(ed) high speed rail

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I've said it before, and I say it again: George Will is an ass. [ LINK ]
2011-03-01

Taking the conserve out of conservative

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Today I heard a story on NPR that I think makes plain the GOP position on all matters environmental: LISTEN ON NPR They won't even co...
2011-02-25

Horse dies, Inhofe continues beating it anyway

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I can't believe that the scandal that was known as "climategate" continues to give climate change deniers some kind of special...
2011-02-18

Response to House continuing resolution cuts

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The House Appropriations Committee today introduced a Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government for the last seven month...
2011-02-17

Fickle conspiracy theorists

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Richard Linklater's 1991 film "Slacker" touches on a number of persistent conspiracy theories. Many of them, such as moon land...
2011-02-09

Dansgaard Dies

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Just saw the LA Times obituary for the Danish  paleoclimatologist Willi Dansgaard [ LINK ]. Dansgaard was a physicist by training, with a sp...
2011-02-03

un-story

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WalesOnline.co.uk has the most unremarkable story on climate change that I have every seen [ LINK ]. The byline says it is by Chris Kelsey, ...
2011-01-24

The Hindu: "Expert wants cosmic rays' impact on global warming assessed"

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The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Energy & Environment : Expert wants cosmic rays' impact on global warming assessed Sigh. More on this at some...
2011-01-21

Rolling back the job-destroying (greenhouse gas) regulations

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A McClatchy Newspapers article [ LINK ] suggests that the House republicans are going to move on to the Clean Air Act now that they've ...
2011-01-20

Glory Be.

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Well, it might be, depends how the launch goes. Glory is the new NASA "A-Train" satellite that is supposed to be launched on 23 Fe...
2011-01-11

Keeping perspective

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MySpace is firing about half its employees, about 500 people, as it struggles to stay relevant [ LINK ]. Contrast with Wikipedia, which has ...
2010-11-30

UN not putting mirrors in space

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An article in the Telegraph by Louise Gray carries the headline, "Cancun climate change summit: UN considers putting mirrors in space...
2010-11-24

Invitations to contribute chapters

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Yesterday I opened my email and found an invitation to contribute a chapter to a book on climate change. Huh? Yeah, reading through, it wasn...
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2010-11-11

Mass Extinction #6

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One of these days I should go back and take a look at the details of the first 5 mass extinctions. The last one was 65 million years ago, an...
2010-11-01

Coherence

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Just saw a post from a month ago on Skeptical Science [ LINK ] that makes an important point about so-called climate skeptics (aka climate c...
2010-10-25

The Whale Pump

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It's this kind of shit that makes oceanography so hard... whale shit, literally. A new study suggests (and does not prove) [ LINK ][ PLo...
2010-10-20

Coffee forests threatened by climate change impacts

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This is serious. At least superficially similar to the pine beetles infecting forests in the Rockies, there's a pest called the coffee b...
2010-10-19

Blame Cheney

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Well, at least a recent NYTimes editorial does: LINK , worth a read. It says that Cheney-style denialism of anthropogenic climate change is ...