Dr. James E. Hansen has announced his retirement as head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, where he began his career in 1967. He plans to engage more actively in … [Read full article]
Tag: Climate Science and Research
Climate Science Mistake,.. Don't Go Overboard or Make Generalizations (Climate Scientists Caught It)
You may have heard about the mistake in a recent report published by an NGO on climate change and food production in the next 10 years. I imagine global warming … [Read full article]
New Report Shows that Climate Change "Literally Affects People in Their Backyards"
It’s in the papers and on TV. It spreads across the Internet (including this very post), and it is finding its way into the classroom. Global climate change is nothing new. And it certainly isn’t going away. Not yet, anyway.
West Antarctica Soon to be under Full Observation
Antarctica has always been the last frontier for scientists on Earth. It even parallels to space exploration, considering just how inhospitable its lands are. Windy, cold, and for half the … [Read full article]
Saharan Dust Responsible for 2006 Hurricane Season?
The hurricane seasons of 2005 and 2006 have posed a bit of a mystery to climatologists recently. After a whopping 15 hurricanes were forged out of the North Atlantic in … [Read full article]
Arctic Ice in Battle for its Life
You know, I really thought I was done with the ‘Arctic Ice’ stories. One would have thought that the entire world by now knew that it had not been a … [Read full article]
Western Rockies under Climate Change attack
Many of us have those geographical features that are, for all intents and purposes, our definition of home. For me personally, my ‘home’ is at the beach, and if I … [Read full article]
Messing with Probabilities, Impacts, Black Swans
How do you prepare for “high impact-low probability” events? That’s a phrase that crops up regularly in global warming research and insurance industry talk. It’s also one that’s given me … [Read full article]
UK Energy Power to go Windy
There is no doubt in many of your minds that I am a bit of a wind-power nut. I love to focus on it at any chance I get, but … [Read full article]
Save the Amazon, Save the World
Just as to ‘Save the Cheerleader’ was to ‘Save the World’, so we too must save the Amazon Rainforest, or risk letting our planet slide further in to a global … [Read full article]
UN Climate Panel to Tackle Greenland Next
The award winning UN Climate Panel that took home this year’s Nobel Peace Prize (along with Al Gore) hopes to look towards the mysteries of Greenland. After three successive overall … [Read full article]
Multiply Your Wind-Farms like you would your Hamsters
The continuing quest for cleaner power has finally brought humanity to kneel before Mother Nature, pleading for some help. We have damaged her planet so effectively, and now we are … [Read full article]
More Storms and More Dry Thanks to Expanding Tropics
Climate science is really one of those things that I’ve developed quite an attachment to. If I ever manage to get back in to university, it will definitely be high … [Read full article]