scientific research
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Help spread the word on "Straight Up"
Here’s something you can do to help spread the word about the book and the blog: Send out an email. I have some text below that you can make use of, but ideally you’d explain in your own words why you read the blog and why someone should buy the book. The review on the popular website Change.org […]
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The Great Global Warming Blunder: Roy Spencer and Marc Morano
Few folks have been as wrong about climate science as Marc Morano and Dr. Roy Spencer. So it’s no big surprise to see this laughable screaming headline on ClimateDepotted: Morano apparently couldn’t spend 30 seconds on Google to find the link to Spencer’s post on his new memoir, The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the Climate […]
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Top scientists call for research on climate link to volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis
Periods of exceptional climate change in Earth history are associated with a dynamic response from the solid Earth, involving enhanced levels of potentially hazardous geological and geomorphological activity. This response is expressed through the adjustment, modulation or triggering of a wide range of surface and crustal phenomena, including volcanic and seismic activity, submarine and sub-aerial landslides, […]
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Straight Up: How the press bungles its coverage of climate economics
In January 2009, I blogged on a remarkable study by a leading journalist documenting the media’s mistakes and biases during the 2008 Senate debate of the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. I posted it again last May since the media repeated the exact same mistakes in the debate over the House bill. I included it in my new book “Straight Up” — […]
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Insane posse of climate deniers?
I know you were probably a little worried that these guys had gone extinct, so I have some excellent news: Insane Clown Posse just came out with a new song! And that’s not all. It teaches us about science—with a twist—so no need to fret any longer about our flagging education system. It’s a little […]
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Hansen calls climate change "predominant moral issue of the 21st century," slams Congress
UPDATE: Hansen just won The Sophie Prize (see below). The country’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, writes in HuffPost: The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change, comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century. Our fossil fuel […]
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Contest: Rename the Scandal Formerly Known as Climategate
So, no conspiracy, no collusion, no manipulation of data, no corruption of the peer-review process, no scandal; just an understandable reluctance to hand over data to dishonest people with a history of misrepresenting it. Squibs don’t get much damper than “Climategate”. The most worrying aspect of the drama was the way in which most of […]
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How the world can (and will) stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm: The full global warming solution
In this post I will lay out “the solution” to global warming. I have argued that stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at 450 ppm or lower is not politically possible today, but that it is certainly achievable from an economic and technological perspective (see Part 1). I do, however, believe humanity will do it […]
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An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High Water
In this post, I will summarize what the recent scientific literature says are the key impacts we face in the second half of the century if we stay anywhere near our current emissions path. I will focus primarily on: Staggeringly high temperature rise, especially over land — some 10°F over much of the United States […]