Daily Archives: September 7, 2010

Arctic in the Holocene, narwhals, and all that

UPDATE: Apparently Joe Romm can’t handle this information. Ecotretas records the action here. Readers may have seen this BBC story: BBC – Earth News – Climate change threatens slow swimming narwhals “That places them at high risk from climate change, … Continue reading

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Posted in Arctic, Paleoclimatology | 41 Comments

Penn State’s greenhouse gas solution: cow beano

Now if they could only provide a solution for Mannian emissions, they’d really have something. It does seem better though than the Bovine Fish Oil Methane Cure and certainly less ridiculous than Climate idiocy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium – cow … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News | 96 Comments

Climate Craziness of the Week: Global scale nanosphere nuttiness

Let’s see, what would we make those nano-disks out of? He says (see PNAS paper below): Silica-alumina ceramic hollow microspheres with diameters of 1 μm. (aka 1 micron) Do you think putting nano-sized silicon based pollutants into the atmosphere will … Continue reading

Posted in Aerosols, Climate Craziness of the Week | 93 Comments

Atlantic hurricane season halfway point

Tropical Storm Hermine rapidly developed and has moved into South Texas soaking rather moist ground from previous Hurricane Alex and TD2.  Scattered areas of interest in the Atlantic include the remnants of Gaston and a couple African Easterly Waves about … Continue reading

Posted in hurricanes, Weather | Tagged , | 19 Comments

The Unbroken Record of Broken Icons

Guest post by Thomas Fuller and Tony Brown When we separate what scientists have actually said from what messages are carefully prepared and communicated to us through the media, one thing jumps out to the most casual of readers. Some … Continue reading

Posted in Opinion, Sea level | 184 Comments

Climate Change = Erratic Rainfall= ‘big dam dilemma’

Hmm. Since all weather and hence climate on a longer scale is essentially chaotic, isn’t rainfall generally erratic as a consequence of that chaos?. Isn’t that why we have some areas that get droughts in one season and floods the … Continue reading

Posted in Climate News | 124 Comments