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Motivating climate action: Last Chance – Preserving Life on Earth by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 5, 2009In the introduction to Last Chance – Preserving Life on Earth, author Larry J. Schweiger, the CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, comes right out and says that he’s not trying to change minds with this book. Instead, it’s his...
20 million years of CO2 and ice sheet/sea level correlation by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 2, 2009When you look at the ice core record, there’s a significant amount of correlation between sea level rise and the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air at the time. But the ice core record goes back less than a million years. A study publi...
Two very different climate disruption messages by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 30, 2009Most people view climate disruption as a horror that we and the generations before us are about to visit upon our children and grandchildren. And there’s a great deal of truth to this view. The “civilization will end if we don’t s...
Waste not want not (Blog Action Day) by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 15, 2009I have no doubt that the climate is changing, nor that it will continue to change. It seems reasonably well established that the Earth has gone through extreme climate swings in the past; on the basis of that i predict that it will do so again. M...
Insuring the world against climate disruption (Blog Action Day) by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 15, 2009Imagine that in a few years you wake up to news reports on the radio that your town is under a flash flood watch. The problem, apparently, is that the ground has been so baked by the recent drought that water can’t soak into the ground fast en...
The Weekly Carboholic: Tipping points will be difficult to identify by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 14, 2009Tipping points will be difficult to identify U.S. Chamber of Commerce President complains about environmentalists Barrels instead of bottles Ocean acidification to turn parts of the Arctic Ocean corrosive by 2018 El Niño and its relationship to ocea...
Gore says ‘tipping point’ close for public push on climate change by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 13, 2009SEJ member Tom Yulsman asks a question of Vice President Gore in Madison. Photo: Anne Minard. The fate of the earth could end up determined by which tipping point is reached first: a physical shift that ushers in abrupt climate change with catastrop...
The Weekly Carboholic: Climate disruption will disrupt volcanism too by Scholars & Rogues on Sep 23, 2009Climate disruption will disrupt volcanism too EPA Office of Inspector General finds standard gases not so standard after all Driest years in Pacific Northwest drier than expected Northeast Passage opened this year for commercial shipping 12% of the m...
Oxygen isotope proxy errors corrected in Greenland ice cores by Scholars & Rogues on Sep 22, 2009Scientists, mariners, and weather hobbyists started directly measuring temperature with thermometers globally in the late 1800s. When modern climatologists want temperature data farther back in time than those first global measurements, they have to...
The Weekly Carboholic: EPA Office of the Inspector General recommends EPA enforce Clean Water Act by Scholars & Rogues on Sep 9, 2009EPA Office of the Inspector General recommends EPA enforce Clean Water Act Climate change lobbyists grow by 31% leading up to ACES vote New information suggests climate change accelerating glacial erosion Wind turbines mistaken for tornadoes First de...
