Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by…
This video taken at 6am on Friday 8 November as Typhoon Hayian hit Hernani in Eastern Samar shows how quickly and intensely the storm surge hit.
Brilliant! Source: SMBC
Michael Mann echoing Keven Trenberth’s position that all weather now has a climate change component since it is occurring in an altered atmosphere (one with more GHGs, heat and water…
Something worth listening to this weekend
From USA TODAY: The vast majority of Americans in each of 40-plus states surveyed say global warming is real, serious and man-made, and the concerns tend to be slightly higher…
From The ongoing climate negotiations in Warsaw Poland: Canada has dropped any remaining pretences of supporting global action on climate change by urging other countries to follow Australia’s example in…
Typhoon Haiyan is photographed by Astronaut Karen L Nyberg aboard the International Space Station It is inevitable. After every extreme weather event the question: “Was it caused by climate change?”…
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Andy Extance has written two particularly appropriate posts on Bert Bolin the first chairman of the IPCC and an instrumental figure in getting the world to agree to negotiate a…
An open letter by leading climate scientists, Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel, James Hansen and Tom Wigley calling on green groups to stop opposing nuclear power: To those influencing environmental policy…
The RS-25, otherwise known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) At the California Science Center in LA
Mark Jaccard hitting home the point that, while spills might be locally devastating, they pale in comparison to the consequences of unmitigated climate change. Sorry, folks, but if you care…
Burton Richter a Nobel Laureate in physics has an interesting idea to stop the use of coal There is no excuse for the continued use of coal to generate electricity…
(h/t Andy Skuce) Andy also highlights some key points from the video which are worth highlighting: (more…)
A Canadian government report stating that Canadian GHG emissions in 2020 will be 20% higher than the governments promised reductions from the 2009 Copenhagen accord. The estimate of emissions is…
The Overton window and its relation to reality This figure by Michael Tobis should have been published when the IPCC AR5 was released as a reminder of how skewed the…
