The Weekend Wonk: PETM – the Fire Last Time
Useful 2014 Lecture above, reposting some info on this below. PETM, the Paleocene – Eocene Thermal Maximum. That’s the last time in earth history that things changed in a way similar to the way they...
View ArticleTexas State Climatologist on Drought, Warming
John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist, interviewed in Austin, June 2016.
View ArticleOil’s Tough New Landscape
EcoWatch: “This was retail politics and oil lost,” was how Adrienne Alvord of Union of Concerned Scientists summed up the stunning environmental victory Tuesday in the California legislature, a victory...
View ArticleDo Hidden Emissions Make Fracking a Bridge too Far?
Natural gas has been neck and neck with wind power for largest source of new electrical production in the US. Could this be the year renewables pull away? Zeke Hausfather for Yale Climate Connections:...
View ArticleTV Meteorologist: How I Learned About Climate Change
Dan Satterfield – Dan’s Wild, Wild Science Journal: Two politicians: one right-wing, and one left wing, made stunningly ignorant statements about climate change in the past two weeks. A U.S. Senator...
View ArticleWhen was the Dawn of the Anthropocene?
New conversation about exactly when the Anthropocene – a new geological age in which Man has been the primary driver of planetary conditions. Current discussion is around the idea that a “golden...
View Article“I Believe in Science..”
RT if you agree with @HillaryClinton! #ImWithHer #ClimateVoter pic.twitter.com/mH8SJb9RPe — Sierra Club (@SierraClub) July 29, 2016 Society is in trouble if “I believe in Science..” are now fighting...
View ArticleCampbell’s Soup: For Those 1000 Year Storms
Noticed this ad some time ago, was waiting for an excuse to use it.
View ArticleOffshore Wind is Rockin’a Hard Place
New York Times: Putting windmills offshore, where the wind is stronger and more reliable than on land, could theoretically provide about four times the amount of electricity as is generated on the...
View ArticleThis is Getting Real. NASA Working on Electric Flight
One more research initiative where tech breakthroughs could ripple through just about every aspect of society. NASA: With 14 electric motors turning propellers and all of them integrated into a...
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