Guest essay by Eric Worrall If you thought the job of insurance companies is to charge customers a competitive fee to cover insured risk, you’re sadly mistaken. According to regulators…
Day: May 31, 2018
Latest Forecast for the Atlantic Hurricane Season
Brief Note by Kip Hansen Phillip Klotzbach and Michael Bell, who continue the invaluable work of the late William M. Gray, at the Department of Atmospheric Science of Colorado…
Good news: real air pollution trends in US continue downward, but slower than hoped
From the “EPA models are always accurate” department comes this bit of good news. The air we breathe today in the United States is much cleaner than it was in…
Despite cooling problems NOAA GOES17 is producing good visible imagery
We reported last week on the cooling problems associated with GOES17 and the infrared imager. Now a new image has been released that shows the western U.S. and the Pacific.…
Inconvenient: new treeline paper suggests temperatures were warmer 9000 years ago
3 to 4 degrees centigrade warmer, in fact. Far greater than recent warming. The new paper, Kulman et al. 2018 relies on paleoclimatology, which as we’ve learned from Mann, can…
Study: UHI in Los Angeles is driving off coastal clouds that dampen California wildfires
From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and “an actual case of man-made climate change” department. Urbanization and climate change combine to heighten danger Sunny California may be getting too…
Claim: Global warming hits poorest hardest, new research shows
From the UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE and the “intelligent CO2 molecules with targeting vectors know just who to hit” department comes this statistical emotional mishmash of a paper with a stereotypical…
Your tax dollars at work: study posits how space aliens might solve climate change
From the Atlantic, by one of the authors of the study, Adam Frank: The universe does many things. It makes galaxies, comets, black holes, neutron stars, and a whole mess…
Claim: Global warming to make more lightning caused fires, but only in the Southern Hemisphere
From PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY and the “global warming, is there anything it can’t do with the help of interpreters” department: Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires, study finds Fires…
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