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Via Tamino’s excellent Open Mind blog: This is climate change: This is weather: Put them together, you get a death spiral for Arctic sea ice:

Michael Tobis’ contribution to the Daily Kos Climate Change SOS: The only game in town is the Last Ton game, where the lower the amount of fossil fuels burnt before the last ton is burnt, the better the ultimate result is for humanity and pretty much all other species.

Depressingly, I agree: One of the government’s most senior scientific advisers has said that efforts to stop a sharp rise in global temperatures were now “unrealistic”. Prof Sir Bob Watson said that any hope of restricting the average temperature rise to 2C was “out the window”. He said that the

From the Telegraph: Wind farm developers using ‘tricks’ to make turbines look smaller Wind farm developers make turbines look smaller than they actually are when applying for planning permission in order to ‘trick’ councils into giving them the go-ahead, a leading architect has warned. What is this nefarious trick? Using

It turns out pipeline operators aren’t required to tell anyone: After the dilbit gushed into the river, it began separating into its constituent parts. The heavy bitumen sank to the river bottom, leaving a mess that is still being cleaned up. Meanwhile, the chemical additives evaporated, creating a foul smell that lingered

When people say of the fight to cut GHG emissions, “this isn’t working; let’s try something else” they are never referring to making our (if it really is “our”) actions bigger; they always want to make our goals smaller. There is always a prominent complaint of how “poisonous” the climate

My last article took issue with the trend of calling extreme heat-waves (like the one currently affecting much of the US) a new normal. But that doesn’t mean that the normal climate hasn’t shifted. This is made clear by this animation made from data in Hansen et al. 2012: Clearly

I have always felt that the choice of Kitimat BC (which lies at the end of a long narrow fjord) as the destination for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline was odd. Surely a narrow winding fjord presents a navigational challenge for large oil tankers. But put on your Enbridge supplied

Good news Everyone! Only two per cent of Canadians who responded to a new opinion poll believed climate change is not occurring. A further nine per cent believed climate change is occurring naturally and 54 per cent felt both humans and nature are playing a role. I would like more

via Tree Lobsters!” I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine who are the zombies

David Appell crunches some numbers and finds that if the US were to use natural gas exclusively for all its energy production it would reduce GHG emissions from 5471 Mt to roughly 4800 Mt. A reduction of 13% which is far less than needed to stabilize the climate.

The recent wave of extreme heat-waves and drought over much of the U.S. has rekindled the public’s interest in and acceptance of climate change. The inevitable question that always gets asked is “is this caused by climate change” and the resulting answer is never as simple as the yes-no answer

After a couple of days filled with rumours and wild speculation we finally know what all the commotion was about. Richard Muller, the head of the BEST project, has written an op-ed in the NYTimes: CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is holding a round table on Nuclear Power and climate change with a focus on developing countries.

More than half of the country was under moderate to extreme drought in June, the largest area of the contiguous United States affected by such dryness in nearly 60 years. Nearly 1,300 counties across 29 states have been declared federal disaster areas. Areas under moderate to extreme drought in June

Not exactly shocking news, James Annan reports on the recent paper investigating: how much of the decline in sea ice was plausibly due to various natural phenomena like the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Arctic Oscillation. The answer…maybe a little, but not a lot. The Guardian has more: We could only

Now that Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon Mobil has admitted that CO2 emissions will cause warming David Appell thinks some follow-up questions are in order: Last month, Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO ex Tillerson said, at the Council of Foreign Relations: “Increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere will have a warming

From the article: WSJ mangles history to argue government didn’t launch the Internet The Wall Street Journal has earned a reputation for producing in-depth and meticulously fact-checked news coverage. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always apply that same high standard of quality to their editorial page. The Wall Street Journal’s reputation has taken a