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Satellites Report Hottest February By Far, Confirm Global Warming
Posted by ThinkProgress: Joe Romm on March 2nd, 2016
ThinkProgress: February smashed monthly global temperature records, according to the satellite data analyzed by the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH). At the same time, a brand new study concludes that miscalculations explain why the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) satellite temperature dataset had appeared to show a relatively slow rate of global warming. So Ted Cruz and his fellow climate science deniers need a new meme to replace their “satellites find no warming since 1998” talking point, which replaced...
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Comments Off on Satellites Report Hottest February By Far, Confirm Global WarmingSizzling September Keeps 2015 on Track for Hottest Year on Record
Posted by ThinkProgress: Joe Romm on October 14th, 2015
ThinkProgress: Once again, it`s the hottest year on record by far through last month, NASA reports. We`re running out of headlines for this repetitive monthly warm up, but with the recent death of the legendary Yogi Berra, one of his classic lines comes to mind, "It`s like deja-vu, all over again."
Last month was second only to 2014 for hottest September in the NASA dataset.
With the long-term warming trend caused by human activity boosted by the short-term warming caused by the strongest El Niño since the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Sizzling September Keeps 2015 on Track for Hottest Year on RecordHistoric Blizzard Poised to Strike New England: What Role Is Climate Change Playing?
Posted by ThinkProgress: Joe Romm on February 8th, 2013
ThinkProgress: An epic blizzard is bearing down on New England - fed in part by relatively warm coastal waters.
I asked Dr. Kevin Trenberth, former head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to comment on the role climate change has on this storm. He explained:
This is a perfect set up for a big storm, with the combination of two parts: a disturbance from the Gulf region with lots of moisture and a cold front from the west.
Ingredients for a big snow storm include...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Historic Blizzard Poised to Strike New England: What Role Is Climate Change Playing?Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To 9% From Gas Fields, Gutting Climate Benefit
Posted by ThinkProgress: Joe Romm on January 5th, 2013
ThinkProgress: Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reconfirmed earlier findings of high rates of methane leakage from natural gas fields. If these findings are replicated elsewhere, they would utterly vitiate the climate benefit of natural gas, even when used to switch off coal.
Indeed, if the previous findings - of 4% methane leakage over a Colorado gas field - were a bombshell, then the new measurements reported by the journal Nature are thermonuclear:
... the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Bridge To Nowhere? NOAA Confirms High Methane Leakage Rate Up To 9% From Gas Fields, Gutting Climate BenefitNY Times Warns On Climate Change: ‘Fear Death By Water’, Rising Seas Likely To Swallow Up City If We Don’t Act Soon
Posted by ThinkProgress: Joe Romm on November 25th, 2012
ThinkProgress: The NY Times (finally) goes apocalyptic on climate change. Here`s the cover image of their big Sunday Review piece, "Is This The End?"
The sub-hed of the print story is "Whether in 50 world 100 or 200 years, there is a good chance New York City will sink beneath the sea." The story begins:
WE’D seen it before: the Piazza San Marco in Venice submerged by the acqua alta; New Orleans underwater in the aftermath of Katrina; the wreckage-strewn beaches of Indonesia left behind by the tsunami of...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on NY Times Warns On Climate Change: ‘Fear Death By Water’, Rising Seas Likely To Swallow Up City If We Don’t Act SoonClimate Change Is Already Worsening Droughts In Many Ways – Nature Gets It Wrong–And Right
Posted by ThinkProgress: Joe Romm on November 20th, 2012
ThinkProgress: Trenberth slams new Nature article on drought: "The conclusions of the paper are likely wrong."
A flawed new article in Nature has a title that sums up its controversial conclusion, “Little change in global drought over the past 60 years.”
I generally judge an article at odds with the broad literature in two ways. How well does it cite and respond to the literature? What do the other leading experts in the field say? This new article comes up short in both areas.
Kevin Trenberth, former...
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