SubscribeElsewhere on Mixxed Green: Wind power | Endangered species | Nuclear energy | Climate change | Clean coal | Solar energy | Biofuel |
# 5 Blogger
leisureguy (WordPress)
leisureguy (WordPress) (leisureguy.wordpress.com) has great Global warming news, photos, videos and more
Saturday, Jan 30
Good post by James Fallows
For the world as a whole, 2009 was the second warmest year on record, and the 2000s were the warmest decade. (See NASA/ Goddard Institute for Space Studies report here.) As more and more people have heard, this winter’s we-are-no-longer-amused cold siege in the middle latitudes of North Am...
Wednesday, Jan 27
Denialist's asymmetric sensitivity
Yesterday I had a brief exchange with a climate-change denier in the comments. I was struck by the great sensitivity of denialists, and how asymmetrical it is. Yesterday I had a brief exchange with a climate-change denier in the comments. I was struck by the g
Sunday, Jan 24
Nightmare visions: Our probable future
Johann Hari reviews James Hansen’s new book Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity: Johann Hari reviews James Hansen’s new book Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Co
Peer-reviewed impacts of global warming
Dana Perino, not a publishing climatologist, once offered her own projections of the effects of global warming, which were quite positive: people would fare better in winter, for example. John Cook of Skeptical Science has a nice table that summarizes peer-reviewed findings of the imp...
Thursday, Jan 14
Texas textbook censors draw a bead on climate change
A similar scenario played out during the battle over science standards, which reached a crescendo in early 2009. Despite the overwhelming consensus among scientists that climate change exists, the group rammed through a last-minute amendment requiring students to “analyze and eval...
Monday, Dec 21
Abrupt Climate Change: Should We Be Worried?
Most of the studies and debates on potential climate change, along with its ecological and economic impacts, have focused on the ongoing buildup of industrial greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and a gradual increase in global temperatures. This line of thinking, however, fails to con...
Sunday, Dec 20
Sun sets on skeptics' case against global warming
If the link between cosmic rays and clouds is confirmed it implies global cloud cover has decreased during the last century. Simple estimates indicate that the consequent warming could be comparable to that presently attributed to greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels," th...
Thursday, Dec 10
Andrea Mitchell interviews Al Gore
These effects are taking place all over the world exactly as predicted by the scientists, who have warned for years that, if we continue putting 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day, the accumulation — that’s going to trap lots more heat, raise temper...
Monday, Dec 7
What happened to the evidence for man-made global warming?
Cognitive dissonance is the uncomfortable feeling you get when confronted with two contradictory ideas. For example, how can one be skeptical about man-made global warming when there is so much empirical evidence? Climategate has provided a way for some to resolve this issue – simply d...
Sunday, Dec 6
Why 2º C really matters
From Climate Progress: Most CP readers know about the 2°C warming limit, but many don’t appreciate its full implications. This short essay by two of the analysts who completed the first comprehensive analysis of that limit back in 1989 elaborates on the most important of these implicati...
Saturday, Oct 31
An open letter from Real Climate to Stephen Levitt
The problem of global warming is so big that solving it will require creative thinking from many disciplines. Economists have much to contribute to this effort, particularly with regard to the question of how various means of putting a price on carbon emissions may alter human behavior. S...
Monday, Oct 26
Fascinating review of national-security implications of climate change
There’s only so much coal, oil and natural gas in the world. Eventually we’re going to run out, even if global warming weren’t a factor. Since these energy sources have other powerful downsides—pollution, resource wars, vulnerability to market and political manipulation, etc.—it make...
Wednesday, Oct 21
Was it pride or complacency that preceded their fall?
GLOBAL COOLING, GEORGE WILL STYLE: Levitt and Dubner spend much of their time channeling conservative columnist George Will, complaining about a "drumbeat of doom" growing louder from "doomsayers" even though a "little-discussed fact about global warming," they say, is that the av...
Sunday, Oct 18
Where we are now in global warming
Climate Progress: “Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas, and geological observations that we now have for the last 20 million years lend strong support to the idea that carbon dioxide is an important agent for driving climate change throughout Earth’s history,” she said.
Thursday, Oct 15
How do we know CO2 is causing warming?
Figure 1: Change in spectrum from 1970 to 1996 due to trace gases. ‘Brightness temperature’ indicates equivalent blackbody temperature (Harries 2001). And, if you’re still not convinced, you need to explain why: the empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that global warming is du...
Monday, Oct 12
How do we know CO2 is causing global warming
The blog Skeptical Science: Examining the science of global warming skepticism should be on the radar of all global warming skeptics: only here are their arguments taken seriously, examined, and (alas) found wanting. Here’s a recent post:
Global warming continues
From Climate Progress: The planet is heating up, thanks to human-generated emissions of greenhouse gases. But as a new NOAA-led study, “An observationally based energy balance for the Earth since 1950” (subs. req’d, release here) concluded:
Monday, May 18
California car standards to go national
“This is a very big deal,” said Daniel Becker of the Safe Climate Campaign, a group that has pushed for tougher mileage and emissions standards with the goal of curbing the heat-trapping gases that have been linked to global warming. “This is the single biggest step the American governmen...
