David Archer on Ice Melt
Uncertainty in predictions of ice melt. The Paleo record has sobering evidence of massive melts in the recent past.
Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change
You can’t understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It’s the whole, or it’s nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies the big picture of climate change with mesmerizing models that illustrate the endlessly complex interactions of small-scale environmental events. You can’t understand climate change in pieces, says climate…
The Big Question: Why are we still debating climate change?
In the March edition of our Big Question video series, David Archer of the University of Chicago joins Booth professors Jesse Shapiro and Jane Risen to discuss why the public’s view of global warming is so far from the scientific consensus.
Die Vermeidung des Klimawandels – der dritte Teil des neuen Berichtes des Weltklimarates IPCC
Ein Gast Beitrag von Brigitte Knopf auf Stefan Rahmstorf’s Blog, erläutert den neuen Bericht der Arbeitsgruppe 3, des IPCC’s. „Die Emissionen steigen global weiter an und der Anstieg ist an erster Stelle auf das Wirtschaftswachstum zurückzuführen. Um Klimaschutz zu erreichen, muss die Nutzung fossiler Ressourcen ohne CCS in der Stromerzeugung bis Ende des Jahrhunderts auslaufen.…
Conservative Senator Calls out Hypocrisy of Fossil Fuel Incentives
Published on Apr 3, 2014 Senator Grassley on the importance of renewing the wind energy PTC absent comprehensive energy tax reform. Senator Charles Grassley is known to be a long time fiscal conservative Republican Senator from Iowa. Obviously, the size and scope of the Iowa wind industry belies the anti-renewable propaganda of the science denial…
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPCC AR5 WG2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo8do95XPH0 The summary of the report can be read here. Overview http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5 . . . You require a Full Access Pass to access this page.
No One Is Immune: IPCC Study Offers Bleak Climate Change Outlook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISUdkcHcMd8 A new massive report on global warming says dangers will worsen as the climate changes. Related
IPCC Climate Change Report The Five Key Points
The Guardian recently summarized the five keypoints of the new IPCC AR5 Impact Report. The world faces threat to food supply, conflicts over water rights and growing inequality. The only option to is cut emissions By Suzanne Goldenberg (
German Wikipedia admins delete article about the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
On March 7, 2014 a Wikipedia user initiated the deletion process of the German Wikipedia article on the scientific consensus on climate change and claimed the article was not required. A week later the page got deleted by an admin who claims that because of climate sceptics the page violates NPOV. An afford to revert the…
Worst Weather Ever: Record Breaking Heat Waves Explained
National Geographic: Experts compare modern heat waves to the past and show what’s really going on with Carbon Dioxide. Related Some 15% of Pacific islands wiped out by 1m sea level rise – IPCC Carbon dioxide benchmark hits new heights, worries scientists Citigroup says the ‘Age of Renewables’ has begun
10,853 out of 10,855 scientists agree: Global warming is happening, and humans are to blame
Virtually all of the scientific papers published in 2013 accept climate change By Lindsay Abrams (Salon): As geochemist James Lawrence Powell continues to prove, the only people still debating whether or not climate change is “real,” and caused by human activity, are the ones who aren’t doing the actual research. In an update to his ongoing project…
Private enterprise is beginning to take climate change seriously
Nature Editorial (Nature Climate Change doi:10.1038/nclimate2193): Even if some sceptics consider climate science akin to witchcraft and politicians pursue ineffective policies, private enterprise is beginning to take climate change seriously. Climate protection requires no magic solutions, but it does require boldness and resolve from policy makers. Instead, what we have is the kind of political timidity that…