Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres is perhaps best known for one thing, the Paris Climate Agreement. In other words, in the long historical view she may actually be one of the most important humans alive today because she has potentially saved our species. In 2010, roughly about six months after the failure of COP15 in … Read more
John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is perhaps best known for his specific interest in the satellite remote sensing of global climate change. The climate change denial community love and adore him because he and several others are staunch critics of the climate models. He not only maintains the stance that they are … Read more
Justin Gillis, a journalist who covers science and climate change, writes within the New York Times – Carbon in Atmosphere Is Rising, Even as Emissions Stabilize. So what is the story here, what is this about? He describes how a group of scientists are attempting to come to terms with a bit of a puzzle that … Read more
The canary in the coal mine, the world’s Coral Reefs are now in extreme distress. Not too long ago I was blogging about the unprecedented back-to-back mass bleaching event that has taken place on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The actual scope, the big picture here, is that it is not simply one famous Coral Reef … Read more
There is a truly excellent article within the New York Times that clearly lays out the potential impact of the on-going climate change. It is not simply the words, but perhaps the graphics that come with it that help to convey the impact. 95 Degree days When the temperature soars to 95 F, (35 C) … Read more
A new study entitled “Global risk of deadly heat” has just become available online. It is very timely given the observation that currently we have a Heat Wave in various locations including the US and the UK at the moment. That however is just a coincidence. The paper has been in the pipeline for some … Read more