Richard Alley: The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s Climate History

Climate Proxies, CO2 Emissions, Education, Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases, Ice Cores, Lecture, Paleoclimatology, Science TalkLeave a comment

In 2009, climate scientist Richard Alley (Pennsylvania State University) held the talk, “The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s Climate History” (Bjerknes Lecture), at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. CO2 is, and has always been, the biggest climate control knob in the Earth’s history https://mind.ofdan.ca/co2-is-and-has-always-been-the-biggest-climate-control-knob-in-the-earths-history 2015 release by AGU https://youtu.be/3UVb–2-PBg

99 One-Liners Rebutting Denier Talking Points — With Links To The Full Climate Science

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By Joe Romm: Progressives should know the disinformers’ most commonly used arguments — and how to answer them crisply. Those arguments have been repeated so many times by the fossil-fuel-funded disinformation campaign that almost everyone has heard them — and that means you’ll have to deal with them in almost any setting, from a public talk to a…

James Hansen explains Climate Change and Free Market Solution

2013, History, Lecture, Policy, Science Talk1 Comment

39:00 min = topic Carbon fee  Climate Scientist Hansen Turns Activist, Advocates ‘Fee’ on Carbon Pollution Bloomberg: James Hansen, the former NASA climate scientist who first brought climate change to the attention of Congress in the 1980s, stepped down as head of the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies last month. That hasn’t stopped him…

Waleed Abdalati (NASA): Dramatic Changes in Polar Ice

2013, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Expedition, Glaciology, Greenland, Ice Sheets, Lecture, Polar Amplification, Science Talk, Sea Level RiseLeave a comment

Video: Welcome to the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Virtual Workshop live stream channel. Stay tuned to listen to featured keynote speakers covering research themes from climate modeling to remote sensing applications and high performance computing in Earth Sciences – Watch them live or browse through lectures from the video library. Please visit the NEX Virtual…

The Secret of the Seven Sisters

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“A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world’s oil.” Al Jazeera: Three men had an appointment at Achnacarry Castle – a Dutchman, an American and an Englishman. The Dutchman was Henry Deterding, a man nicknamed the Napoleon of Oil, having exploited a find in Sumatra. He joined forces…