Category Climate change

In an unusually strong attack on politically powerful deniers of global warming, 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 32 from Northern California, have charged that opponents are using “McCarthy-like tactics” against legitimate climate scientists. The letter condemning…

The Kauaian notes how the weather in Hawaii is getting weird, then generalizes. Those who build models of “system dynamics” tell us this weirdness is an expected consequence of the “hockey stick” trends we’re now seeing. Every major geo-physical indicator…

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It’s heavily financed by out-of-state oil companies, no big surprise,and another example of why the California proposition system is broken, easily gamed, and needs to be replaced. Even the Governator thinks the proposition is evil. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a strong…

March 2010 was the warmest month on record when combining land and ocean temperatures worldwide, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose records go back to 1880. Is this a fluke, a one-time spike in temperatures? Could be, but…