An op-ed published last week in the Austin Texas American-Statesman is worth a read for its insight into how politics distorts science education. The authors are Camille Parmesan, a University of Texas at Austin geology professor, and Alan I. Lesher, … Continue reading
Wow, is this good. I started to watch it the other day and had a connection problem so I only just got around to viewing it. (Thanks to my brother Tom for recommending it, by the way.) In just a … Continue reading
The Veritasium YouTube channel produced the following short video responding to 13 misconceptions about global warming in about 30 seconds each: Link: http://youtu.be/OWXoRSIxyIU Click above for links to additional information. The video is quite good, but it omits (presumably for … Continue reading
Not many years ago most Republican leaders accepted the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, as this video reminds us: Link: http://youtu.be/ckxLgsUQmHg It’s remarkable that the GOP has shifted so far so fast under pressure from the extremists who tend … Continue reading
It was about 11 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 Celsius) when I got up yesterday morning, and it was not much warmer when I dropped off my car for service and walked to my office building. It reminded me a little of … Continue reading
According to an article published last week in The Guardian (based on a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy), U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are at their lowest level since 1994. (A separate report … Continue reading
The U.S, National Research Council has a quite good website explaining what is actually known about global warming and various approaches to dealing with the problem. The site is intended for the general public and presents the facts in a … Continue reading
Britain’s Guardian newspaper reports that Cambridge University’s Peter Wadhams, an expert on ice in the Arctic, fears that the Arctic Ocean will be essentially ice free in the late summer (August-September) as soon as four years given recent observations. Wadhams … Continue reading
A bill [PDF] approved yesterday by the North Carolina Senate’s Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee would force the use an approach dictated by politicians rather than the best available science to forecast sea level rise for regulatory purposes. This … Continue reading
Wolfgang Wagner, editor of the online scientific journal Remote Sensing, has resigned after criticism for publishing a paper about climate models that was outside the journal’s normal subject area and drew criticism from a number of scientists. Wagner wrote in … Continue reading