Michael Mann: If You See Something, Say Something

2014, Denial, Energy, Policy2 Comments

If You See Something, Say Something http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/if-you-see-something-say-something.html and http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/01/if-you-see-something-say-something/ The ‘Clear and Present Danger’ of Climate Change Interview by KCRW 21 Jan, 2014: Almost 100% of climate scientists now say global warming is caused by human behavior and that action now is a moral imperative for future generations. But public perception is moving the other way,…

Australia: Top temperature forecast to reach 46C | Heat stress | Power outages | Wildfires

2014, Australia, Drought, Extreme Weather, Health, Heat Stress, Heat wave, Region, Wildfire9 Comments

Adelaide could break its 75-year-record for its hottest day – a searing 46.1C in January 1939 – after its warmest night in five years. The mercury only dropped to 29.9C just before 6:30am, with the temperature still above 35C at 2:00am. Acting regional director at the Bureau of Meteorology, John Nairne, says a new record…

UK and Poland announce plans to push fracking across Europe

2014, CO2 Emissions, Economy, Emissions Reduction, Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Greenwashing, Methane (CH4), Natural Gas, Policy, Region, UK3 Comments

David Cameron tells Polish Prime Minister that he will cooperate to prevent EU legislation that could slow down fracking industry By Sophie Yeo | Release URL  The UK and Poland have pledged to work together against any EU regulation that could threaten the shale gas industry. Speaking to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the phone, David…

What has the West Virginia chemical spill to do with climate change?

2014, Coal, Conflict, Ecocide, Energy, Environment, National Security, Policy, Water SecurityLeave a comment

Both involve the Koch Brothers In 2008, Freedom Industries was specially selected by Georgia-Pacific Chemicals as a distributor of G-P’s Talon brand mining reagents for West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Minnesota, Kentucky and Michigan. Georgia-Pacific Chemicals is, of course, a subsidiary of Georgia-Pacific, which was acquired by Koch Industries in 2005.  URL Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that…

Australia’s 2014 Heat Wave Picks Up Where 2013 Left Off

2013, 2014, Australia, Drought, Extreme Weather, Health, Heat Stress, Heat wave, Region1 Comment

The U.S. may just be climbing out of the freezer, but Australia has been sweating through a major heat wave to start the year. Heat records fell across a large part of the country in the first week of the New Year. The warm weather is currently centered over sparsely populated Western Australia, but it could hit major population centers…

Mass Extinction: Let’s Not

2014, Abrupt Climate Change, Anthropocene, Films, Global, Mass Extinction, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, Paleoclimatology, Permian119 Comments

Notice: The original video is no longer available. Published on Sep 28, 2013: “Last Hours” is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster. Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these…

How the Koch Brothers hijack the System

2014, Coal, Denial, Energy, Natural Gas, Oil, Policy, Study, Tar Sands20 Comments

By Climate Science Watch | January 8, 2014 | Release URL Almost four years ago we started to call attention to the Koch brothers, radical ‘free market’ oil and gas conglomerate multibillionaires, as significant funders of the global warming denial machine (Koch Industries multibillionaire Koch brothers bankroll attacks on climate change science and policy). Since then, the Koch…

Thawing Permafrost Could Release Vast Carbon Deposits, Diseases

2014, Arctic, Arctic Amplification, Arctic Circle, Biosphere, Climate Feedbacks, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Erosion, Freshwater, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Microbiology, Pedology, Permafrost, Polar Amplification, Region, Soil, Study, VirusesLeave a comment

by Science World Report | January 8, 2014 | Release URL Dr Guido Grosse has been studying the Arctic for fourteen years to find out how the frozen ground, known as the permafrost, is reacting to an environment that is getting hotter all the time. The samples he has drilled out – in regions so…