Water woes likely to continue
As Colorado snowpack suffers, La Niña could persist into summer According to the latest forecast from the Climate Prediction Center, issued yesterday, the La Niña conditions that have contributed ...
Natural disasters were big news in 2011
But the environment generally barely registered in the news media and public mind Attention by the U.S. news media to environmental topics dropped from almost nil to all but nil in 2011, ...
Nothing new under the sun
The climate change wars have several historical precedents — right down to the nastiness and idiocy Both Nicolaus Copernicus and Albert Einstein became the target of ridicule after they proposed theories that were ...
Who should be rocketed into space?
Grist's still uncorrected headline about sending climate change deniers into orbit raises questions about journalistic standards in the age of proliferating niche media In this photo from the Seattle PI, California Gov. ...
Pictures tell the story
A picture is worth a thousand words — never more true than with these disturbing images. This satellite image, courtesy of DigitalGlobe, was captured Wednesday morning. It clearly shows ...
Nuclear power and the decarbonization challenge
Damned if we do, and damned if we don't? Severe damage caused by hydrogen explosions at two containment buildings housing nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear station in Japan is ...
“Today’s tsunami: This is what climate change looks like”
And the story in Grist with that headline is what yellow journalism looks like Explosions at industrial facilities like the one pictured above in Ichihara, Japan; a destroyed village inundated by water; ...
The Coven
The unmasking of our little secret — the Environmental Journalism Coven — began with Randy Olson's comments at DotEarth: The media were irrelevant and largely blameless in Climategate. The whole incident ...
Sobering news from Greenland and Antarctica
The Greenland Ice Sheet meets the sea in this picture by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. . Melting of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland is accelerating, according to a new ...
No serious energy policy in sight
Global warming debate in Congress almost seems like a sex addiction As oil prices rise, Rep. Ed Whitfield will hold hearings on global warming Here we go again . . . The ...
Confusion on global-warming link to snowstorms
Do we really need psychologists to explain it? The "Groundhog Day Blizzard" swirls across a large expanse of the United States on Feb. 1, 2011, as seen in this satellite image. The ...
In the curve
How we know CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing — and it’s our bad Duane Kitzis, a NOAA scientist, hauls a load of empty cylinders up Niwot Ridge in Colorado's Front Range. From a ...
I’m back
If you've been a regular reader of CEJournal, you've probably noticed that I've been gone for awhile. I should have hung a 'gone fishin' sign here to let people know where I ...
Graphics tell the story of record melting in Greenland
This movie, produced by the Cryospheric Processes Laboratory, consists of stills and video collected during 2009 and 2010. Meltwater is the theme. The vocal is a Shaman Inuit Chant. Greenland experienced a ...
The great water heist
The Colorado River near Moab, Utah. New research suggests that dust falling on snow in the mountains where the river is born is robbing it of enough water to serve Los Angeles ...
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