Archive for the ‘Climate Change’ Category
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Chasing Ice — A Movie, And Evidence, Not To Miss
28 Dec 2012We’d put Chasing Ice, a new documentary by Jeff Orlowski, on the second tier of movies-to-see over the holidays. But…
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and Power by Steve Coll
15 Nov 2012The London Review of Books [8 Nov, 2012] reviews Steve Coll’s new, indispensable volume, Private Empire: ExxonMobile and Power. Coll will be…
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
27 Oct 2011Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing…
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Jared Diamond on The Most Important (12) Environmental Problems
23 Jun 2011If no video showing, click here. “We are working so hard for our children and grandchildren. All of us parents…
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Climate of Denial — Al Gore
22 Jun 2011Al Gore has a very good article in the current Rolling Stone. Get it! Get 5 and leave them around…
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Food, Floods and Drought
07 Feb 2011Krugman looks at Egypt, food prices and the fast changing world climate: We’re in the midst of a global food…
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Fast
31 Jan 2011New research shows that 2010 set new records for the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, expected to be a…
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GOP Wants to Withdraw from Climate Panel
24 Jan 2011The Republican Study Committee last week released a list of proposed budget cuts totaling $2.5 trillion, including a recommendation to withdraw…
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2010 Wettest Year on Record – and Tied for Hottest
13 Jan 20112010. What more can be said? Queensland, Australia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are being swamped from unprecedented rains. In…
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Weather Weather Everywhere and Not A Plan in Sight
02 Jan 2011It is hard to get people impressed with the size of the disaster flooding over Australia’s north east province of…
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More Warmth More Snow
28 Dec 2010From Wunderground: The remarkable Post-Christmas blizzard of 2010 has ended for the United States, as the storm has trekked northeastward…
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Gobal Surface Temperature Keeps Rising: Japan Meteorlogical Agency
26 Dec 201021 December 2010 Japan Meteorological Agency Global Temperature in 2010 Most Likely Second Warmest (preliminary) The annual anomaly of the…