climate

Hothouse — A paper has appeared in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) that is attracting a lot of media attention. Titled “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” it lays out a possibility that we face a runaway climate hothouse. Note the word I’ve underlined. Many of the […]

What does the alpha source for “Hothouse Earth” actually tell us?

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science study and tagged Anthropocene climate feedback hothouse on August 8, 2018 by Dave

UK Climate — The UK’s Met office has published a full scientific report on the state of the climate in the UK. The Press Release is here. The full report published within The International Journal of Climatology is here (open access). The report is a summary of the UK climate in 2017 and […]

UK Met Office: The Climate in the UK is changing

This entry was posted in Climate Change news science and tagged climate report UK on August 3, 2018 by Dave

heatwave — Weather and climate are not the same thing. We can and do have weather events that that are extreme. Often such events are attributed to climate, but the subject matter experts generally tend to pause and not make that leap.What about the current heatwave, is that an extreme weather event, […]

Can we attribute the heatwave to Climate Change?

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science and tagged climate heatwave on July 26, 2018 by Dave

climate change — When it comes to dealing with Climate Change we perhaps think about big ticket items such as coal fired power stations. On a far smaller scale what exactly can we as individuals do that will really make a difference, if anything? We often strive to recycle, and to also use […]

Climate Change: You want me to do what?

This entry was posted in Climate Change People science society and tagged actions climate impact on July 10, 2018 by Dave

heat — The heat is cranking up everywhere. Jason Samenow writes in the Washington Post about the heat records that are being shattered all around the planet. He starts off by correctly pointing out that a new record in just one place is not Climate, but instead is weather. We will hit extremes, […]

Red-Hot Planet: heat records set all over world during past week

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science and tagged climate heat on July 6, 2018 by Dave

May 2018 — When it comes to the topic of Climate Change the IPCC provides quite literally heaps of scientific information. In fact there is so much of it that many a forest positively quivers at the idea of it all being converted from PDF into FDT (Flat Dead Tree). AR5 is available, […]

May 2018 Climate Updates – Fire and Ice

This entry was posted in Climate Change news science and tagged climate May 2018 NOAA on June 21, 2018 by Dave