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Can Las Vegas grow without limits in a drought?
Abraham Lustgarten, a top-notch reporter for the public interest site Pro Publica, a couple of years ago wrote the toughest story on fracking ever, in my limited experience. Here's the money quote from...
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Blogging the Pope’s “Praise Be”: on Nature as a book
In Chapter 12 of Pope Francis' encyclical, "Praise Be," in our language, just before he launches into an appeal to all people to come together to save the world, the pontiff brings up the idea of...
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Hansen sees sea level rise of ten feet this century
James Hansen and a team of researchers have published a paper that foresees huge sea level rises changes this century, of ten feet in fifty years, which would doom much of developed south Florida and...
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Patzert: El Niño 2015 a potential Godzilla. Maybe.
On a slow news day in August, NOAA’s prediction yesterday that El Niño will continue to strengthen and may well bring big precipitation to the southern half of the country (not just SoCal) made...
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CA leading on climate as well as water: LA Times
Yesterday the NYTimes’ lead op-ed in the Sunday Review was about how California is Winning the Drought (as discussed here a couple of days ago) from a respected author on water issues. Today the lead...
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El Niño in charts: August 2015
An Atmospheric El Niño index surges into unprecedented warmth: Today sets the record for our Atmospheric El Nino index with a +4.62 sigma amplitude. Pretty remarkable. pic.twitter.com/4uWi5HZcEw —...
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The silence of the deniers: Toles
Besides being the best political cartoonist on the subject of climate and the environment, and actually funny as well, Tom Toles publishes almost as many sketches as he does full-fledged cartoons, plus...
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Pope Francis: The universe is calling to us
Francis, the Pope, has made headlines by visiting Washington and calling for action on climate change, on poverty, on immigration, and for religious freedom. But that’s nothing! In his startling...
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Not climate change: Climate Rupture
As Tom Toles says in a column today: First it was called the Greenhouse Effect, then Global Warming, then Climate Change. Each accurate enough, as far as that goes, but all woefully inadequate at...
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FORECAST: GODZILLA
Here’s the image that inspired scientist Bill Patzert to call a particularly epic El Niño “Godzilla.” See that monster lurking off Central America? With the jagged...
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Poll: US sees no problem with climate change
Have been struggling a bit with climate “overwhelm” — the volume of bad news is drowning out my efforts to keep up and post, even my own thoughts. I sympathize with a JPL/NASA scientist and publicist...
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FORECAST: GODZILLA (take two)
Another paper published my FORECAST: GODZILLA story, which includes an amusing history of the “meme” from the weather reporter’s friend at JPL/NASA, Bill Patzert. Don’t usually repost my reporting, but...
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Exxon knew and that truth hurts all of us
Today the state of New York announced it will be investigating Exxon corporation for, essentially, crimes against the climate and humanity. From the NYTimes: According to people with knowledge of the...
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Hansen sees sea level rise of ten feet this century
James Hansen and a team of researchers have published a paper that foresees huge sea level rises changes this century, of ten feet in fifty years, which would doom much of developed south Florida and...
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Reporter brings science to politics of climate
Reporters can fall into ruts and become predictable and dull, like anyone else, so it’s worth noting when a veteran reporter tries a new trick. Such was the case this past week, as the Associated...
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The inevitability of warming: a matter of degrees
In Tales of a Warming Planet in today’s review section of the Sunday NYTimes, Curt Stager makes some central points about climate change well-known and accepted by climate scientists, but still new to...
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A day in Paris for the climate
Where does one start with the news from Paris, from COP21? With the speech from the President? Images from the fantastically imaginative demonstrations from the day before, in defiance of police...
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Chris Christie “doesn’t buy” climate change
As David Roberts of Grist/Vox has been saying for literally years now, the GOP base is batshit crazy, and as a result, Republican candidates have to compete to out-crazy each other when it comes to...
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Climate warriors in Vogue: Hindou Oumaro Ibrahim
A feature in Vogue focuses on thirteen “climate warriors” at the Paris climate conference (#COP21) from around the world. It’s beautiful — and the words of these women hit home. HINDOU OUMAROU IBRAHIM...
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If climate talks fail, blame GOP: Krugman
If they fail, Paul Krugman says, we will know who to blame: the GOP. Future historians — if there are any future historians — will almost surely say that the most important thing happening in the world...
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