Things categorized as 'climate variability'
As G-8 climate talks fail, some analysts urge a different approach
• At the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy today, leaders of the world's 16 biggest polluters failed to reach agreement on specific targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The failure ...
An icy Antarctic paradox
3 The ozone hole is masking the impact of global warming in Antarctica This image from NASA's Aura satellite shows the extent of severe ozone depletion over Antarctica in September ...
Running on Empty Redux
2 The Colorado River flows through eastern Utah near Moab. A new study suggests use of the river water is unsustainable. (Photo: Tom Yulsman) John Fleck writes about a new study ...
Running on empty
• Decreasing flow and unrelenting demand on the Colorado River The solid lines in the graphs above show historical water use in the Colorado River system. (Source: When will Lake Mead ...
John Fleck: The Incredible Shrinking Lake Mead
5 The level of Lake Mead has dropped significantly, as the white "bathtub ring" in this photo demonstrates. (Photo: Chris M. Richards, via Flickr Creative Commons) In his blog today, ...
James Hansen: Reduce CO2 in atmosphere or face catastrophe
10 NOAA scientists agree the risks are high, but say Hansen overstates what science can really say for sure Jim Hansen at the University of Colorado's World Affairs Conference (Photo: Tom Yulsman) ...
There he goes again
4 George Will's latest foray into climate science is no better than the previous two I've spent way too much time focusing on the George Will Climate Change Follies so I hesitated ...
A question about models
12 Can we draw any lessons about climate model predictions from weather forecasting? Here's the National Weather Service radar image for the Denver area on Saturday, April 4 at about 4:20 ...
Arctic Ocean could be ice-free much sooner than expected
2 As this year's Arctic sea ice is confirmed to be fifth lowest on record, new research suggests the ice could be almost completely gone in summer in 30 years UPDATE 4/4/09: ...
A tale of two stories
21 New research published in Nature suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is vulnerable to collapse from global warming, but if it happens it would likely take place over ...Heart of this past winter was eighth warmest globally
• Dec '08 - Feb 09 was near average in the U.S., but very warm globally The National Climatic Data Center is reporting that the combined global land and ocean surface ...
Why Washpost fact checkers haven’t stopped Will’s serial errors
6 Had George Will and the Washington Post's fact checkers really wanted to assure accuracy, here is some of the data they should have considered. This graph shows that while ...
International Polar Year: clear signs of warming
• A scientists takes a snow sample as part of International Polar Year, which has found clear signs of warming in the Arctic and Antarctic, along with impacts on plants, ...
The American Dream: to Live (Unsustainably) in the West
3 Suburban life. (Photo: Johnnyalive, from Flickr Creative Commons) Even as millions of foreclosed and unbought dream homes molder, Americans still see the far-flung suburbs as the most ...
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