Mark Sorenson and I just published an op-ed in response to George Will’s misguided essay denying global warming. Not anthropogenic global warming, but simply global warming. He argued on Oct 4 in the WaPost (and countless other papers around the country) that the warming has plateaued. Sadly, he is wrong.
Will picked up [...]
The Maldives cabinet ministers are planning to hold a sub-aqua session to ratify a treaty calling on other nations to curb their greenhouse gas emissions. Some ministers are learning to dive for the first time for this special meeting and will be using hand signals and whiteboards to communicate underwater.
Here is a video i’ve just uploaded that pieces together a fascinating presentation given by Dr Todd LaJeunesse at Heron Island Research Station earlier this year as part of the Coral Reef Targeted Research meeting. Todd is a great speaker, and the presentation (a little under 30 minutes in length) is a great [...]
“You can’t change world by wearing sandals”
True enough.
The quote is from Michael O’Leary, Chief Executive Officer of the Irish airline Ryanair.
He has quite a lot to say about climate change, whether it is real and [...]
UBC climate scientist Simon Donner published a gloomy paper a few months ago in PLoS One titled “Coping with Commitment: Projected Thermal Stress on Coral Reefs under Different Future Scenarios” link to the paper
The paper is the most sophisticated analysis to date of how climate change will increase the frequency of mass coral [...]
Protection of the Great Barrier Reef is usually a pretty contentious issue in Queensland. Just last night a law was passed in through parliment aiming to half the amount of pesticides entering the Great Barrier Reef lagoon from the catchments in under four years time. In order to achieve this, there needs [...]
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) released a press release yesterday about recent trends in Arctic sea ice. Highlights include:
“At the end of the Arctic summer, more ice cover remained this year than during the previous record-setting low years of 2007 and 2008.” – relatively good news, sure to be [...]
Another great video by Peter Sinclair, this time addressing confusion (to put it charitably) over changes in arctic sea ice, an issue we have covered repeatedly here on CS, e.g., here, here and here.
See the NYT series on Arctic melting here and go to the National Snow and Ice Data [...]
Billy Causey is the Southeast Regional Director for the National Marine Sanctuary Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Billy managed National Marine Sanctuaries in the Florida Keys since 1983, when he became the Manager of the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary. As the manager of this marine protected area he developed the education, [...]
Slightly old news, but I just came across this piece from Greenpeace featured on BBC News. US Artist Spencer Tunick encouraged 600 people to on the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps in the name of climate change. Here is Greenpeace’s take on the event:
An emergency provokes extreme [...]
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