July 13, 2013 – 3:10 pm
I’m betting you can guess why Everyone knows the bad news about climate change, said former Virginia Congressman Tom Perriello. Costly weather disasters are increasing. Kids in North Carolina don’t have clean air to breathe. But there is good news, too, Perriello told a group gathered to greet the “I Will Act On Climate†bus […]
July 11, 2013 – 3:40 pm
Back to this again (Asbury Park Press) The world could see as many as 20 additional hurricanes and tropical storms each year by the end of the century because of climate change, according to a study out Monday. “Could”, huh? So they have no idea, which means this isn’t science. The study was in the […]
July 8, 2013 – 2:15 pm
Here’s Al Gore’s Climate Reality CEO Maggie Fox providing yet another July 4th rant about fossil fuels. Apparently she wants everyone to stop breathing (via Tom Nelson) Declaring Our Independence from Carbon Pollution Last week, I watched President Obama stand up to the fossil fuel industry and all their friends in Congress and for future […]
July 2, 2013 – 11:46 am
There couldn’t possibly be another explanation than people living high carbon lifestyles, right? Here’s Excitable Shea Gunther at Mother Nature Network You know it’s hot outside when the traffic lights are melting WIth temperatures hovering around 110 degrees in Kuwait right now, it shouldn’t be too surprising to see something like a melted traffic light. […]
July 1, 2013 – 8:46 am
Sad when we have to start the post with a facepalm, rather than ending with one (Bloomberg) The El Nino weather pattern that can bring drought to Australia and rain to South America was “unusually active†at the end of the 20th century, possibly due to climate change, a University of Hawaii study found. Researchers […]
June 27, 2013 – 9:06 am
The best is the one from Hawaii, which notes (via Watts Up With That?) The US Department of Agriculture designated 31 counties in Hawaii as primary natural disaster areas due to damages and losses from drought in 2012. Hawaii has 5 counties. One would think that a president who was raised there might know that. […]
June 12, 2013 – 2:07 pm
Alternate headline: Guy with a pretty darned big carbon footprint who’s mayor of a city with a pretty darned big carbon footprint forgot to take his meds (via Watts Up With That?) (NY Daily News) CLIMATE CHANGE is real — and it could turn the city into a flood-prone danger zone with summers as sweltering […]
June 10, 2013 – 8:47 am
All hail the computer model!!!!! (Washington Post) Global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose 1.4 percent to 31.6 gigatons in 2012, setting a record and putting the planet on course for temperature increases well above international climate goals, the International Energy Agency said in a report scheduled to be issued Monday. The agency […]
June 1, 2013 – 3:48 pm
Like, super duper doomed!!!!!1!!!!, per Soros funded Climate Progress How Climate Change And Budget Cuts Could Make This The Most Dangerous Hurricane Season Ever The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins tomorrow and despite warnings of an above-average season and increasingly intense storms driven by climate change, key agencies are facing mandatory cuts that threaten their […]
May 25, 2013 – 5:45 pm
Because, you know, doom (even though that 400ppm thing didn’t happen the other week) (via Tom Nelson) (Spanner Films) You’ve probably heard the appalling news that, for the first time in human history, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has just passed 400 parts per million. (Eh? Scientific America’s explanation here).  It’s been 2.5 […]
