Daily Archives: November 28, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28hedin.html He probably would have liked the Dust Bowl better.

Meteorological Autumn is September/October/November. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11855579 h/t to reader “Malaga View”

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http://earth.350.org/ This is an obviously brilliant solution, other than the fact that Brighton Beach hasn’t changed for at least 120 years. http://www.shellbellestikihut.com/2009/07/vintage-beach-photos-bathing-machines.html  

Up to three billion people could lose access to clean water supplies because global temperatures cannot now be stopped from rising by 4C. We will reach a tipping point from which temperatures will go up even faster. The world will … Continue reading →

Article II, Section 2, paragraph 2 of the United States Constitution states: [The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_and_consent Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

What more needs to be said?

We have reached an irreversible tipping point death spiral loss of ice sheets catastrophe from which we can’t recover. James Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warns that if our “present overshoot” of the 350 ppm … Continue reading →

They started with this bold campaign two weeks ago. http://www.latimes.com/la-na-climate-scientists-20101108,0,4825399.story That quickly got demoted. FOR THE RECORD: Climate scientists: An article in the Nov. 8 Section A about a campaign by scientists to push back against congressional conservatives who have … Continue reading →

Mark Serreze commented that he thinks geoengineering the Arctic is a bad idea. He seems to be in agreement with this assessment from 1975, when climatologists wanted to melt the Arctic ice cap to stop global cooling. The Cooling World … Continue reading →