Higher Albedo Roofs Could Cool Planets
Raising the albedo (reflectivity) of roofs and pavement with lighter colored and more reflective material could delay the effects of higher atmospheric CO2 by about 2 years. In the latest study, the...
View ArticleThe Oracle Speaks: Global Warming Will Kill All Humans In 100 Years
Frank Fenner, looking appropriately smug in a photo from The Daily Mail. Frank Fenner, a scientist who helped eliminate smallpox, has predicted that human race will become extinct at some point soon,...
View ArticleSoot Seen As Major Climate Warmer
Cutting soot emissions could cool the planet. The quickest, best way to slow the rapid melting of Arctic sea ice is to reduce soot emissions from the burning of fossil fuel, wood and dung, according to...
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Bye Bye Rainforests: According to a new study, climate change and deforestation are going to wipe out tropical rainforests in about 90 years. (via Treehugger) Post from: BlissTree (Source:...
View ArticleClif 2 Mile Challenge: Can You Switch From Car To Bike For 2 Miles or Less?
Blisstree is big on biking â for both exercise and as an eco-friendly transportation alternative â so we’re pretty stoked about the Clif 2 Mile Challenge. Here’s how it works: At least 40% of...
View ArticleGlobal Warming? Hardly.
New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on Politics Daily. Global Warming? Hardly. Who ya gonna believe? Me? Or your fryin’ eyes? Filed under: Politics Daily Tagged: climate change, comics, global...
View ArticleCleaning up emissions
Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known...
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Global Warming: The rising temperatures that have occurred in the last ten years have diminished plants’ ability to soak up carbon from the atmosphere. (via Guardian) Post from: BlissTree (Source:...
View ArticleJohn Cleese Makes Climate Change Funny, Tortoise Makes It Cute
Sick of all the depressing photos of the effects of climate change? Then you’ll be glad to watch this adorable video courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium (and John Cleese). Personally, we don’t think...
View ArticleYou Know You're Unwell If...You Spend 10 Days In a Traffic Jam
like hundreds and hundreds of bummed-out people recently did on China’s National Highway 110 outside Beijing. Nothing was moving for more than 60 miles. Drivers were playing board games in the middle...
View ArticleLike Coffee? Stop Driving Your Car
photo: Thinkstock If you’re one of millions who can’t fully function without a cup of coffee in the morning, you might want to rethink your driving habits. The coffee berry borer beetle thrives in warm...
View ArticleClimate Change Cynic Changes His Mind In New Book
photo via Guardian One of the most high-profile climate change skeptics in the world has decided that he was wrong. Bjørn Lomborg, a Danish scientist who has been compared to Hitler by the United...
View ArticleClimate Engineering Delivers Uneven Costs And Benefits
Your position on climate engineering might be driven by how it will change rains and temperatures where you live. Reflecting sunlight from the Earth by geoengineering would undoubtedly cool the...
View ArticleThe Current Wisdom
By Patrick J. MichaelsNOTE:Â This is the first in a series of monthly posts in which Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may...
View ArticleOn Election Eveâ¦
By Michael D. TannerWith Tuesdayâs election widely predicted to bring a near-historic shake-up of the political establishment, here are some things we can say for certain even before the first...
View ArticleThe Shocking Truth: The Scientific American Poll on Climate Change
By Patrick J. MichaelsNovemberâs Scientific American features a profile of Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist Judith Curry, who has committed the mortal sin of reaching out to other scientists...
View ArticleWarming World or Just World?
From UCBerkeley News: Dire or emotionally charged warnings about the consequences of global warming can backfire if presented too negatively, making people less amenable to reducing their carbon...
View ArticleClimate change and digital music
Information technology has a carbon footprint, that’s beyond doubt. Now, writing in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Christopher Weber, Jonathan Koomey and Scott Matthews in the US...
View ArticlePlant Growth Negative Feedback On CO2 Warming
CO2 is food for plants and so higher atmospheric CO2 will boost plant growth. GREENBELT, Md. -- A new NASA computer modeling effort has found that additional growth of plants and trees in a world with...
View ArticleThe Current Wisdom
This study provides an elegant solution to one of the two key ice sheet instability problemsâ noted by the United Nations in their last (2007) climate compendium. âIt turns out that, contrary to...
View ArticleWhy It's Wrong to Decorate a Christmas Tree
photo: Brennan Cavanaugh By Brennan Cavanaugh This story begins with my killing several of my Facebook friendships last holiday season. In one of my “let’s fix the world we’ve ruined” moments, I...
View ArticleWind Turbines Alter Farm Microclimates
Researchers at the U.S. Department of EnergyÂs Ames Laboratory and the University of Colorado find evidence that wind turbines alter microclimates for farm crops, possibly for the better. ÂWeÂve...
View ArticleThe Current Wisdom: Better Model, Less Warming
By Patrick J. MichaelsThe Current Wisdom is a series of monthly posts in which Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not...
View ArticleOrganic Milk Against Global Warming
Who knew? What will organic apples do? Organic meat? Wetter, cooler summers can have a detrimental effect on the milk we drink, according to new research published by Newcastle University. Researchers...
View ArticleYet more science news
Latest science news snippets from Sciencebase Bee team funded by Bayer – It is revealed that the lead investigator in the study that recently published results suggesting that bee colony collapse...
View ArticleEven more science news
Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Sir David King on climate change – King said, “We hear enough from the climate change skeptics that I have to repeat some fundamentals...
View ArticleThe Current Wisdom: The Short-Term Climate Trend Is Not Your Friend
By Patrick J. MichaelsThe Current Wisdom is a series of monthly posts in which Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not...
View ArticleSupreme Court Takes Up Butterfly Effect
By Ilya ShapiroAs Congress debates cap-and-trade, new fuel standards, and subsidies for "green" companies, some still feel that political solutions to global warming are not moving fast enough. In the...
View ArticleHeptastic science news
The full list: The Twitter 100 – Its 200 million users share 110 million messages a day – and if you don't know who rules the twittersphere, you don't understand the 21st-century world. This guide is a...
View ArticleFive picks from the science news
Fix your H, increase citations and get more grant money – Citations have become the currency of science, which is used to reward scientists and scientific institutions. Small variations in citation...
View ArticleAmerican Pacific Northwest Headed For Drier Climate?
The 20th century was an outlier in terms of precipitation. PITTSBURGHÂUniversity of Pittsburgh-led researchers extracted a 6,000-year climate record from a Washington lake that shows that the famously...
View ArticleUS Southwest At Risk For Megadrought?
Megadrought. What a great word. Not tinny at all. Looking at the previous interglacial most like our current Holocene era some climate history researchers found that the US southwest can undergo a...
View ArticleHard Water: Is It Hard On Your Skin?
Hard water is tap water thatâs high in minerals such as calcium and magnesium. Hard water isnât harmful, except the minerals prevent your soap from sudsing. Some people think that hard water is...
View ArticleThe Current Wisdom: Overplaying the Human Contribution to Recent Weather...
By Patrick J. MichaelsThe Current Wisdom is a series of monthly posts in which Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not...
View ArticleObscure Blogger Vilifies Johnny Ball? No, Actually
I thought I might get back into blogging some time but didn't know it would happen like this.I wrote this small scale blog for a few years before taking a long break. In that time I deleted most of my...
View ArticleGuardian Journalist Explains
After posting yesterday on the Johnny Ball fiasco, I had a conversation on Twitter yesterday with Leo Hickman who wrote the 2 Guardian articles regarding the imaginary hounding of Johnny Ball. His...
View ArticleHey Johnny Ball, how about an apology?
Hi Johnny, old friend.You've been leading those poor gullible journalists a merry dance, haven't you, you old rogue?! Perhaps you never expected them to be so lazy that they wouldn't check what you...
View ArticleFive more science stories
Sperm condensation – Protamines are small basic proteins that condense the genetic material, the DNA, in mature sperm helping to form the head of the sperm. They are rich in the amino acid arginine...
View ArticleCongress: The Least Dangerous Branch
By Gene HealyThat’s the topic of my Washington Examiner column this week. In it, I discuss last week’s budget battle and the failure of “policy riders” designed to rein in the Obama EPA’s attempts to...
View ArticleThursday Links
By George Scoville One thing is clear after President Obama’s speech yesterday: He envisions a smaller national debt, but a much bigger government. One percent is better than nothing, but it’s still...
View ArticleSun Spot Activity Coming Back: Little Ice Age Averted?
Okay, anyone fantasizing about a new Little Ice Age due to an extended period of low sun spot activity should probably give up hope for revival of Thames frost fairs on a frozen river because the sun...
View ArticleThe Psychological Situation of Climate Change
Situationist friend, Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology, describes the psychological impulses that make it difficult for humans to confront the threat of global warming. Related Situationist...
View ArticleTuesday Links
By George Scoville Please join us this Thursday, April 21 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern for a book forum and debate on “green energy” policy, following the recent release of the Cato book The False Promise of...
View ArticleA lot of spectroscopy and a little maths
Uranium hard drive – A new uranium-containing compound maintains its magnetic behaviour at low temperatures. The discovery could take us a step closer to magnetic memory devices with capacities...
View ArticleCoccoliths Better Suited For Acidifying Oceans
An interesting article in Wired looks at research on the relative resistance of different types of plankton to increasing acidity caused by rising carbon dioxide dissolving into the oceans. The results...
View ArticleCurricula with an Agenda? It Ainât Just Big Coal
By Neal McCluskeyToday the Washington Post has a big story on efforts by the coal industry to get public schools to teach positive things about â you guessed it â coal. The impetus for the article...
View ArticleJournal of Public Health 2011 (Vol 33 No 2)
This article considers the impact of the use of private cars on people’s health and what measures could be initiated to reduce car dependence. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Filed under:...
View ArticleCoal Sulfur Prevented Global Warming For 10 Years?
Robert K. Kaufmann of Boston University and a few other researchers have proposed a theory to explain why global warming basically stopped for about 10 years: sulfur aerosols emissions from China's big...
View ArticleCan YouTube save us from climate change?
New media has rapidly become the mechanism by which information is spread quickly in many walks of life from alerting the public to local traffic incidents, terrorist attacks, earthquakes and celebrity...
View ArticleScientists Study The Shape Of The Nose And Its Relationship With Climate
The basic function of the human nose is to warm and humidify the air before it reaches the lungs. Because of the wide variation of human habitats from the polar cold and dry air to the equatorial hot...
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