Holocene Climate – 11,300 years of temperature
In a recent report published in science, Marcott et. al. have reconstructed the temperatures for the past 11,300 years. Basically covering the entire “modern geologic age” called the Holocene. This...
View ArticleLEEDS Homes Really Work
About a month ago, we moved into the new house. We’ve combined households and my mom is living with us. So we built a large house. After a month the first full electricity bill is in and I was very...
View ArticleGlobal Warming by the Decade
Hopefully everyone has seen this and I’m beating a dead horse, but it bears repeating and reposting and sharing. I’ll just post this image. The World Meteorological Organization did something very...
View ArticleScience News Updates
I’ve found a bunch of interesting articles recently, so I thought I would just combine them into one post. Commercial spaceflights are on track for 2014 as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two completed...
View ArticleIt’s Only a Few Pitiful Holdouts Now
The New York Law Journal (Volume 25-No.52) published an article by Michael B. Gerrard on Thursday. In the article, Gerrard tells about the various court cases involving (to some degree or another)...
View ArticleUpdates on Wind Power
It’s no secret I like renewable power. I will happily tolerate nuclear. Anything that gets us away from fossil fuels. A recent article about the current status of wind power and wind technology...
View ArticleClimate News
Bunch of little things to mention, so one big post. First, here’s an excellent TED talk by Gavin Schmidt. He’s a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and is Deputy Chief at the...
View ArticleRandom Climate News
I’ve been sitting on this for a week or two binge watching Fringe instead of blogging like I’m supposed to. Fringe is excellent, by the way. While the science is nothing short of abysmal, the...
View ArticleThe Anthropocene
Geological time is divided into various lengths and kinds of sections. This is to make it slightly easier for people to understand what we’re talking about. Everyone (now) knows that when you say...
View ArticleMethane
I’m sure that, by now, you’ve all seen the pictures of the “craters” in Siberia that had no explanation. I’ve avoided talking about them (as I do for most things) until some understanding exists. I may...
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Catholics and Climate Change
According to several news sources (Thinkprogress, The Guardian for example), the Pope will issue several decrees (or whatever they are called) to his 1.2 billion followers to take action on climate...
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It’s Official: 2014 Is Hottest Year in 134 Years of Records
We all knew that this was coming, but I wanted to wait for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and NOAA to make it official. And now it is. 2014 was the hottest year in 134 years of global...
View ArticleThe Role of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Heat Waves
The summer of 2011 in Texas was pretty brutal. Some cities had over 90 days in a row with temperatures exceeding 100ºF. June, for example, had over 1,200 high temperature records set by various weather...
View ArticleWho Are the Corporate Shills?
I have a few pro-GMO posts on this blog and in every one of them, you will find someone accusing me of being a corporate shill. Someone who takes or accepts money to promote a particular position on a...
View ArticleEarth Day – 2015
Another Earth Day is nearly over, the 45th day in which celebrate and talk about trying to protect the only place in the universe that we can live without massively complex technology. There are some...
View ArticlePhotosynthesis Technology
One method of preventing a climate disaster would be to eliminate the extra CO2 from the atmosphere. This would be a fantastic plan if we could. The big reason that we’re having such an issue is that...
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Carbon Dioxide and Climate
A recent, lengthy, exchange with a climate denier and several more after the California governor’s announcement has given me a bit of insight to Anthropogenic (man-caused) Global Warming (AGW) deniers....
View ArticleWhy the Minority isn’t Always Correct
In almost any discussion about science where there is a mainstream viewpoint and a contrarian viewpoint, someone on the contrarian side will invariable bring up Galileo. Usually stating that the...
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Tree of Life
A couple of news tidbits, then we get to something really awesome. First, Microsoft is officially on my shit-list. First, I started to list the things I loathe about the latest Excel, but I stopped...
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The Gulf Stream and Global Warming
Recent weather events in the north eastern US have brought some interesting research to the forefront. The result is that the Gulf Stream may be stopping and that has huge implications for weather in...
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