• On Muller

    Updated: 2012-07-30 22:03:04
    Kevin Drum approvingly posted this chart from Muller: I applaud the effort to match theory to actual, you know, observations rather than model results.  I don’t have a ton of time to write currently, but gave some quick comments: 1.  This may seem an odd critique, but the fit is too good.  There is no way [...]

  • Finally, A Good Record High! Car Fuel Efficiency in 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-30 20:10:57
    The summer driving season is in full swing and I’m sure many drivers are still recovering from the gas-price whiplash we’ve faced this year.  The good news is that the U.S. has been making some really smart choices and significant strides recently to improve the fuel economy of cars and trucks. That helps Americans save [...]

  • Assuming Your Conclusions

    Updated: 2012-07-30 18:57:09
    I haven’t had a chance to respond to Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article on global warming.  After hearing all the accolades for it, I assumed he had some new argument to offer.  I was amazed to find that there was absolutely nothing there.  Essentially, he assumes his conclusion.  He takes it as a proven given [...]

  • Climate Hope

    Updated: 2012-07-30 11:45:49
    I attended a sustainability seminar at Skidmore College last week. The process began with the assigned reading of Bill McKibben’s latest book: Eaarth. Eaarth is a somewhat hysterical rant about climate change, the end of growth and the lack of political will to effect change. I found the book irritating, even though I agree with [...]

  • Can a Bullet Train Shrink California’s Carbon Footprint?

    Updated: 2012-07-28 00:14:58
    A Berkeley study says it just might -- but not right away. Continue reading →

  • Site Lockouts

    Updated: 2012-07-27 23:27:12
    I have been trying to lock down the site better because of some bad behavior over the last several weeks by some odd attempts to penetrate off-limits parts of the site.  If you feel like you were locked out in error, send me an email to the link on the header of the site with [...]

  • This Weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-07-27 23:18:46
    There is a debate going on over about 80 miles miles of decaying railroad tracks in the heart of the Adirondacks, on whether tracks ought to stay, or go to create a recreational trail for hikers, bikers and snowmobiles. Speaking for trail supporters will be Lee Keat, a board member and treasurer of Adirondack Recreational [...]

  • Was the Medieval Warm Period Confined to Europe?

    Updated: 2012-07-27 21:07:23
    That’s what the self-anointed ‘consensus of scientists’ claims. As noted in a previous post this week, right after the IPCC famously declared that the 1990s were likely the warmest decade of the past millennium, they stated: “Evidence does not support the existence of globally synchronous periods of cooling or warming associated with the ‘Little Ice Age’ and [...]

  • Understanding the U.S. Drought and Heatwave: Five Good Visuals

    Updated: 2012-07-27 17:48:24
    As the drought drags on, here are graphics and interactive features that explain what's happening. Continue reading →

  • Ongoing drought lowers Hudson, shipping limit imposed

    Updated: 2012-07-27 17:36:45
    It’s official. New York is part of the drought that has embraced much of the U.S., and is the worst in some five decades. More than 92 percent of the state is either abnormally dry or in a moderate drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The amount of the state locked in drought began [...]

  • Turning the Tide at Ocean Beach

    Updated: 2012-07-27 01:34:32
    Pencil-ready: Funding comes through for Ocean Beach adaptation studies. Continue reading →

  • Disqus Comments

    Updated: 2012-07-26 22:50:04
    First, I have not changed my comment policy – no moderation except for spam.   But I have decided to force some kind of log-in on comments.  I am going to try Disqus, and am specifically doing so during a quiet period in my blogging to have time to test it.  Note that for a [...]

  • The Greenland Ice Melt: Should We Be Alarmed?

    Updated: 2012-07-26 21:20:44
    If you follow global warming news at all, you’ve probably seen the NASA satellite images (above) many times. The images show the extent of Greenland surface ice melt on July 8 (left) and July 12 (right). In just a few days, the area of the ice sheet with surface melting increased from about 40% to 97%, including Summit Station, Greenland’s [...]

  • Is Today’s Climate Warmer than the Medieval and Roman Warm Periods?

    Updated: 2012-07-26 16:21:43
    In 2001, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) featured a graph of Northern Hemisphere temperature history from a 1999 study by Profs. Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes. Because of its shape, the graph became known as the “hockey stick.” From A.D. 1,000 to about 1915, the graph depicts a gradual decline in Northern Hemisphere temperatures (the hockey stick [...]

  • Well, There is a First Time for Everything

    Updated: 2012-07-25 07:21:07
    In preparation for blogging more actively again here, I have been doing some security cleanup.  As part of that, I finally decided to delete my first comments ever.  I pride myself on leaving anything in the comments, on the theory that idiots just hurt their own cause by being idiots.  However, I deleted all the [...]

  • Quick Link: “California debates $23.7 billion water tunnel system”

    Updated: 2012-07-24 20:15:15
    A briefing from KQED’s Lauren Sommer on the upcoming plan for a pair of multi-billion-dollar tunnels designed to shuttle water from the Sacramento River across the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. If you’ve got six minutes, it’s a good backgrounder on the long-debated idea. Source: Continue reading →

  • Quick Link: “How droughts will reshape the United States”

    Updated: 2012-07-22 16:27:55
    Including some useful perspective on recent comparisons to the 1930s Dust Bowl. Source: Washingtonpost Continue reading →

  • Drought Has Ties to La Niña, with Global Warming Assist

    Updated: 2012-07-20 22:25:45
    La Niña has been linked to historical droughts, including the Dust Bowl Continue reading →

  • Quick Link: Coastal Tribes Take On Climate Change

    Updated: 2012-07-19 21:56:23
    Native Americans have weathered climate change before, but now there are new challenges Rising sea levels will affect all coastal communities. But for Native Americans, the pace of climate change threatens traditions that go back thousands of years. PBS Newshour reports on how the Swinomish Tribe in the Pacific Northwest is trying to adapt to … Continue reading →

  • Shade to Beat the Heat

    Updated: 2012-07-19 18:16:12
    I saw something today that I’ve never noticed before. In the heat of the midday sun, the creatures at our birdfeeder all congregate in a tiny patch of shade created by the feeder itself. I first noticed a little cardinal and mourning dove crouching inches apart in this sliver of relief from the sun. Next [...]

  • UPDATED: This weekend on Capital Green Scene

    Updated: 2012-07-13 21:22:38
    There are an increasing number of choices for “green” goods and services as people look for ways to reduce their environmental footprint Now, people in the Capital Region for the first time have a green choice for their final resting place. The Albany Diocesan Cemeteries has opened the region’s first natural burial ground _ Kateri [...]

  • Computer Generated Global Warming. Edit – Past Special – Add

    Updated: 2012-07-13 18:32:20
    Way back, I had a number of posts on surface temperature adjustments that seemed to artificially add warming to the historical record, here for example.  Looking at the adjustments, it seemed odd that they implied improving station location quality and reduced warming bias in the measurements, despite Anthony Watts work calling both assumptions into question. [...]

  • Hot Topic: Climate Change and Our Extreme Weather

    Updated: 2012-07-13 16:33:39
    Americans have been griping all summer about the weather. It feels hotter than usual this year. Turns out, that’s because – it is. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just confirmed that America is enduring the hottest weather in our recorded history. In fact, the past 12 months have been the warmest 12 months [...]

  • Irony of Ironies: Europes Switches to Coal as US Switch to Gas Drives Down Emissions

    Updated: 2012-07-13 09:49:17
    : Log in RSS news feed Email Log in RSS news feed Email MY NEW E-BOOK JUST PUBLISHED March 2012 Power Politics reveals that pretty much everything we have been told about energy just isn't true . Available now . Click to go to Amazon Kindle Store UK just 3.23 or Kindle Store US just 4.99 and other E-publishers soon . nbsp An excellent , readable book for anyone who wants to know the real implications of climate madness for energy policy . Steve Goreham author Climatism : Science , Common Sense and the 21 st Century's Hottest Topic a watershed book . Donald G . Nelson Direct click through to page from Continuum Amazon US Amazon UK and from Borders Waterstone and all usual . booksellers Subscribe Log in RSS news feed Email Navigation HOME BLOG ARTICLES GREAT MATERIALS to buy The Dark Side of

  • Summer of the Shark, Climate Edition

    Updated: 2012-07-12 20:49:44
    My new column is up, comparing coverage of this summer’s heat wave to “Summer of the Shark” Before I discuss the 2012 global warming version of this process, let’s take a step back to 2001 and the “Summer of the Shark.”  The media hysteria began in early July, when a young boy was bitten by a [...]

  • My oh Miocene!

    Updated: 2012-07-11 14:47:53
    Guest commentary by Sarah Feakins Our recent study in reconstructed conditions at the Antarctic coast during a warm period of Earth’s history. Today the Ross Sea has an ice shelf and the continent is ice covered; but we found the Antarctic coast was covered with tundra vegetation for some periods between 20 million and 15.5 [...]

  • Tree Rings and Climate: Some Recent Developments

    Updated: 2012-07-08 18:01:33
    by Michael E. Mann, Gavin Schmidt, and Eric Steig Update 7/12/12: Media Matters comments on the latest misrepresentations of the Esper et al study discussed in our article: ‘Surprise: Fox News Fails Paleoclimatology’ Update 7/13/12: Further comment from Bob Ward of the Grantham Institute in Huffington Post UK “The World’s Most Visited Newspaper Website Continues [...]

  • Unforced Variations: July 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-03 23:48:03
    Have at it.

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