From Eos. Using satellite remote sensing data sets can be a daunting task. Giovanni, a Web-based tool, facilitates access, visualization, and exploration for many of NASA’s Earth science data…
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Evidence for Little Ice Age in Antarctica
The actual title of the article is: Century-old seal pelts reveal changes in Ross Sea ecosystem. ~ctm From the UC Santa Cruz Newscenter Scientists found valuable samples for comparison…
America Is on the Verge of Ratpocalypse
Warmer weather is fueling a rodent surge, straining public health systems and the economy. It’s time for the federal government to step in. From The New Republic By Emily Atkin…
Thanks for nothing: Provincial cash for social housing must go to green energy projects
From The Toronto Sun First posted: Sunday, August 27, 2017 03:14 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, August 27, 2017 03:22 PM EDT This is a case where you want to…
World’s soils have lost 133 billion tonnes of carbon since the dawn of agriculture, study estimates
From The Independent Amount of carbon released from the Earth is about the same as released by deforestation Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent @montaukian Tuesday 29 August 2017 19:25 BST The…
Grizzly bears go vegetarian due to climate change, choosing berries over salmon
The comments under the original story warm my wittle heart~ctm From The Telegraph Victoria Ward 28 August 2017 • 8:32pm Grizzly bears have stopped eating salmon in favour of elderberries…
Australian leader hints at a clean energy target by year's end
August 28, 2017 / 4:16 AM / 2 days ago From Reuters Reuters Staff SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia could adopt a clean energy target by the end of the year,…
Hurricane Harvey Proves Global Warming Increases Lifespans
August 30, 2017 From Real Climatologists First, I (Dr. Duane Thresher) do not make light of the deaths and damage Hurricane Harvey has caused. I know all too well the…
Former Obama Adviser Uses Hurricane Harvey To Attack GOP On Climate Change
Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 10:48 AM 08/29/2017 Former White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes used the devastation that Hurricane Harvey brought to Texas as an opportunity…
Trump’s EPA Chief Investigated For Taking Weekend Trips Home
Energy Michael Bastasch 4:28 PM 08/28/2017 From The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) inspector general has opened an investigation to see whether or not taxpayers footed the bill…
Electricity consumption in Europe will shift under climate change
Public Release: 28-Aug-2017 From Eurekalert Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions will fundamentally change electricity consumption patterns in Europe. A team of…
Study gives first proof that the Earth has a natural thermostat
From Phys.org I was taught in high school in the 70’s that clouds and the phases of water perform this function. Read about it in Scientific American as well sometime…
Is the European Commission Waking up to Electricity Consumer Pain?
From The GWPF Date: 25/08/17 Dr John Constable: GWPF Energy Editor Specialists have long known that the system management cost of even medium and certainly higher levels of non-despatchable renewable…
EPA ends sponsorship of climate leadership program
From Reuters. August 25, 2017 / 3:17 PM / a day ago Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will no longer sponsor an awards program…
Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats
From PLOS Gregory S. Okin Published: August 2, 2017 Abstract In the US, there are more than 163 million dogs and cats that consume, as a significant portion of their…
Ecojustice – Competition Bureau Inquiry The Competition Bureau has discontinued the inquiry into Friends of Science Society that Ecojustice publicly called for on Dec. 3, 2015.
Just received this. Nice comprehensive piece. ~ctm [UPDATE 11:18 PM PDT] VIDEO TRANSCRIPT AND RELATED LINKS Some people have requested a transcript of the video. Here it is. Also, just…
3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths – and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry
From The Telegraph Sarah Knapton, Science Editor 24 August 2017 • 7:00pm A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were…
The 'Climate Change: Believe It Or Else' Prize from @AGU
This essay is from the Real Climatologists blog, by Dr. Duane Thresher. I strongly recommend their About Us page. HT/Science or Fiction August 21, 2017 The American Geophysical Union (AGU)…
STUDY: Al Gore Might Have Beaten Bush If There Had Been More Warming
Energy More Al Gore because [insert politically incorrect joke or blog policy violation here] ~ctm From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch Former Vice President Al Gore might have won the…
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