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West Antarctica Warming Three Times Faster Than Global Average, Threatening To Destabilize This Unstable Ice Sheet
This is a repost of a National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) news release (plus links and excerpts from other recent studies at the end). BOULDER—In a finding that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea...
Top Ten U.S. Weather Events Of 2012
Guest post by Jeff Masters, via the WunderblogIt was another year of incredible weather extremes unparalleled in American history during 2012. Eleven billion-dollar weather disasters hit the U.S., a figure exceeded only by the fourteen such...
Climate Story Of The Year: Extreme Weather from Superstorms to Drought Emerges as Political, Scientific Gamechanger
Global Warming, Record Arctic Ice Loss Create Deadly ‘New Normal’ With Twenty-Five Billion-Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters In 2 YearsThis year brought staggering weather extremes, record loss of Arctic ice and a growing body of scientific analysis...
From Doha To Divestment: The Search For A Real Strategy To Combat Climate Change
by Jim ShultzIf you wanted to design a global crisis that the world’s political systems would be particularly incapable of solving, it would be hard to do better than climate change.Unlike a meltdown of the banking system or an attack from the sky,...
Obama To Name Climate Hawk John Kerry Secretary Of State
In the first serious indication Obama will focus on climate change in his second term, media outlets report the President will nominate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) to be Secretary of State.Kerry is one of the Senate’s leading climate hawks who has...
Cartoon of the Week: "Blind Faith of Climate Change Deniers Endangers Us All"
Opine away!Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David Horsey had a cartoon and column in the L. A. Times this week, “Blind faith of climate change deniers endangers us all.” Here’s an excerpt:Great harm is what comes from denying scientific facts about...
Why China Is So Wary Of Ambitious International Climate Targets
China's chief climate negotiator, Su Weiby Melanie HartFrom many perspectives, China is a global powerhouse. China is the world’s second largest economy in terms of gross domestic product, the world’s largest energy consumer, and a global leader in...
What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors?
“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent…. Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have...
Deadlock In Doha: Is Qatar Going To Be The Place Where International Agreements Go To Die?
by Rebecca Lefton and Andrew LightThis year’s UN climate negotiations have once again deadlocked. Negotiators and observers in the hall are concerned that this meeting could end with no outcome, much like the long-stalled Doha trade...
How A Progressive Carbon Tax Will Fight Climate Change And Stimulate The Economy
Superstorm Sandy. Massive droughts. Devastating tornadoes. Horrific wildfires. The United States has certainly seen the dramatic weather-related effects of climate change in 2012, and every American has in some way been negatively impacted....
Negotiations Over The Kyoto Protocol Continue At The Doha Climate Talks
The UN climate talks currently taking place in Doha will decide the future of the Kyoto Protocol, which is the world’s only legally binding climate treaty. Although the protocol’s impact on global emissions has been limited, it is still...
Scientific American: ‘Loss of Ice, Melting Of Permafrost And Other Climate Effects Are Occurring At An Alarming Pace’
Another day, another (accurate) apocalyptic review of climate science. Joining recent articles in the New York Times and New Scientist is a terrific piece in Scientific American by science writer John Carey.Carey has collected an assortment of epic...
