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May 22, 2013

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3:45 PM | FYI: Could Climate Change Cause More (And Bigger) Tornadoes?
Twister OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) A warming world pulls the two factors of tornado formation in opposite directions. Scientists generally agree that climate change will increase the likelihood of extreme weather events, but the jury is still out on how tornadoes will fare in a warming world. Tornadoes are fickle beasts, and it remains tough to predict a tornado a week from now, much less what they might be like over the next few years. "The most common finding is a […]
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2:58 PM | Seeking Clarity on Terrible Tornadoes in a Changing Climate
A deeper look at tornadoes in a changing climate.

May 21, 2013

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10:00 PM | Fisheries could be in hot water due to climate change
Warming waters are altering the distribution and abundance of fish species.
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9:34 PM | The Forces that Narrow the Climate Debate
Last week on Twitter I lamented the simplistic public discourse on climate change, how it’s often framed by those who dismiss the legitimate concerns of a warming planet and those who play up those concerns. American Politicians, especially those with leadership positions in the Republican and Democratic parties, could steer the debate into calmer waters [...]
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8:00 PM | Climate Change Will Increase Heat-Related Deaths In NYC, Study Says
New York City Heat Aurelien Guichard via Wikimedia Commons Summer in the city could get a whole lot more miserable in the coming decades, according to a new report. Warming weather could make summer in the city deadly in the next few decades, according to a study published this week in Nature Climate Change. By the 2020s, New York City will see 22 percent more heat-related deaths per year compared with 1980s, the researchers predicted. Urban centers like New York City are especially sensitive […]
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1:24 AM | Why Global Warming’s Effects Will Be Worse Than You Were Thinking
The story of climate change has always been more of worst-case, or at least, worser-case scenarios developing and less about good news showing up out of nowhere and making us unexpectedly happy. A few decades ago, it became clear that the release of fossil Carbon into the atmosphere primarily as CO2 was going to cause…

May 20, 2013

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3:34 PM | Who’s Escaping Climate Change ‘Mire and Muck’?
A radio show tries to find a route around conventional thinking on global warming.
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3:30 PM | The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania
There is a book called “The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania” produced by the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute is famous for doing all that work to prove that smoking is not bad for you, and more recently, that climate change is not real or is not important or…
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3:30 PM | The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania
There is a book called “The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania” produced by the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute is famous for doing all that work to prove that smoking is not bad for you, and more recently, that climate change is not real or is not important or…
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3:30 PM | Spring 2012 Was The Earliest On Record
Signs of Springtime USDA A prematurely sprung spring caused trouble with crops, insects, and pollen, according to a new report. Remember the 80-degree days and early daffodils last March? It wasn't just an early spring. For much of the U.S., it was the earliest spring since 1900, when systematic weather records became available for the entire U.S., according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey. The central and eastern U.S. saw spring come 20 to 30 days early, the study says, although […]
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1:41 PM | Another Week of Anthropocene Antics – May 19, 2013
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom May 19, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, Arctic Council, Consensus, Warren 400 ppmv, Ventus Project, Red List, Bottom Line, Cook Fukushima: Note, News…
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12:25 PM | Climate Game Changers
In a recent report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) lamented: The picture is as clear as it is disturbing: the carbon intensity of the global energy supply has barely changed in 20 years, despite successful efforts in deploying renewable energy. Another fact, noted in the IEA’s report, will disturb anyone concerned about climate change: The unremitting [...]
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12:19 PM | Consensus on Climate Change
A recent review finds that over 97% of scientists believe that human activity is contributing to climate change. That is a very solid consensus of scientific opinion. This, of course, does not mean that the consensus must be correct, but (along with other data) it makes it unreasonable to claim that there is no consensus, [...]

May 19, 2013

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1:34 AM | A New Zealand climate change pseudosceptic apologises!
Credit where credit is due, and I admit I never thought I would say this about local climate pseudosceptic Richard Treadgold – but “good on you mate.” I have often got into heated debate with this guy – my main … Continue reading →

May 18, 2013

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6:09 PM | Correcting BBC’s Lousy Journalim
Again and again. Do you have to take a stupid pill every day to be a reporter? Or are reporters like this one speaking down to their audience. Either way, it’s shocking.
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11:08 AM | Ocean heat puts pressure on poorest fisheries
The first evidence that climate change has affected fishing catches, revealed by William Cheung from the University of British Columbia and his team, shows tropical countries are set to be hardest hit.

Cheung, W., Watson, R. & Pauly, D. (2013). Signature of ocean warming in global fisheries catch, Nature, 497 (7449) 365-368. DOI:

Payne, M. (2013). Fisheries: Climate change at the dinner table, Nature, 497 (7449) 320-321. DOI:

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May 17, 2013

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4:11 PM | The Other Climate Science Gap
A flurry of discussion about public misperception of climate scientists' views misses another science perception gap.
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11:41 AM | Rocky Mountain Melting Threatens Drinking Water
Melted snow from the Rocky Mountains supplies drinking water for about 70 million Americans, but a study by the U.S. Geological Survey warns that warmer springs reduced snow cover in the mountains by 20 percent since 1980. Continue reading →
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11:00 AM | Human-caused climate change--Now even realer
John Cook from the University of Queensland and his colleagues have now put to rest the idea that there’s no consensus on global warming. Global warming is real, and it’s caused by humans. So say over 97% of peer-reviewed climate studies.The researchers pored through nearly 12,000 published papers on climate science and separated them into ones that explicitly endorse anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming, those that explicitly reject that premise, and those that offer no position on […]

May 16, 2013

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4:00 PM | Global Warming Consensus: We can haz it!
An important study has just been published1 examining the level of consensus among scientists about climate change. The issue at hand is this: What is the level of agreement in the scientific community about the reality of climate change and about the human role in climate change? The new paper, Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic…

Cook, J., Nuccitelli, D., Green, S., Richardson, M., Winkler, B., Painting, R., Way, R., Jacobs, P. & Skuce, A. (2013). Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, Environmental Research Letters, 8 (2) 24024. DOI:

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4:00 PM | Global Warming Consensus: We can haz it!
An important study has just been published1 examining the level of consensus among scientists about climate change. The issue at hand is this: What is the level of agreement in the scientific community about the reality of climate change and about the human role in climate change? The new paper, Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic…

Cook, J., Nuccitelli, D., Green, S., Richardson, M., Winkler, B., Painting, R., Way, R., Jacobs, P. & Skuce, A. (2013). Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, Environmental Research Letters, 8 (2) 24024. DOI:

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4:00 PM | Global Warming Consensus: We can haz it!
An important study has just been published1 examining the level of consensus among scientists about climate change. The issue at hand is this: What is the level of agreement in the scientific community about the reality of climate change and about the human role in climate change? The new paper, Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic…

Cook, J., Nuccitelli, D., Green, S., Richardson, M., Winkler, B., Painting, R., Way, R., Jacobs, P. & Skuce, A. (2013). Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, Environmental Research Letters, 8 (2) 24024. DOI:

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3:29 PM | Climate Change Consensus Tracked
A new study finds near-unanimity among climate scientists: humans are causing global warming. Continue reading →
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11:59 AM | Top 10 Headlines Today: Clones Become Stem Cells, Oldest Water Found…
The top 10 stories on our radar today: Scientists have created stem cells from cloned human embryos, 1.5-billion-year-old water has been found in a deep Canadian mine, and...
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8:54 AM | First Gray Whale Recorded in Southern Hemisphere
Is the sighting of a gray whale off Namibia a sign of climate change? Continue reading →
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4:42 AM | “Citizen Science”: Scientific Consensus On Global Warming
I came across an interesting study about the consensus in the scientific community on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), i.e. the idea that human activity is very likely causing most of global warming. What makes this study so interesting is the fact that it involved a “citizen science” approach. Volunteers who contributed to the Skeptical Science website were asked to grade the abstracts of 11, 944 scientific papers on global climate change that were published in the years 1991-2011.  […]
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2:51 AM | Pseudosceptics are at it again – misrepresenting and attacking climate scientists
I have already mentioned the irony of a failed politician attacking climate scientists, accusing them of treating science like a religion while declaring his own faith that: “The world stopped getting warmer 17 years ago. That’s incontrovertible.” (See “Incontrovertible” is … Continue reading →

May 14, 2013

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4:44 AM | Confusion and distortion – has global warming stopped?
There’s a mantra circulating at the moment claiming that global warming “stopped 17 years ago.” It is of course being pushed by the pseudosceptics in the climate denial echo chamber. However, even people who should know better have been heard … Continue reading →
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2:31 AM | Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 12, 2013
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information is not Knowledge…Knowledge is not Wisdom May 12, 2013 Chuckles, Beauty, COP19+, G8, Red Lists, 400 ppmv Lake El’gygytgyn, CCAC,…

May 13, 2013

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9:09 PM | More on a Sensitive Climate Question
A fresh look at studies finding a less potent warming from the continuing buildup of greenhouse gases.
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