Just over half make the link, which is pretty bad since the science says yes, they are linked. My friend Hunter Cutting at Climate Signals just sent me this clip of a Quinnipiac poll: The usual suspects are as usual suspect in this travesty.
using “Ice Age” as a control, Google N-Gram style:
Three items all in one handy post. First, Peter Gleick has an Op Ed in the Washington Post in which he chastises Trump for his boneheaded tweets about water and the fires in California. Peter is the world’s leading expert on water in California (see: California Drought and Syrian Refugee Crisis with Dr. Peter Gleick) … Continue reading Trump Tweets Nonsense, Saudis Back Tesla, Fires and Climate Change
An excellent PBS News Hour piece called “Climate change is making wildfires more extreme. Here’s how.” It starts with California but discusses this as a world wide problem. Has a segment with Michael Mann, author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (recently … Continue reading Climate Change and Wild Fires
Attributing major weather related disasters, such as the current wildfires in California or the recent heat waves in Japan, to climate change is a little like attributing deaths due to respiratory illness to influenza. Before going further with that concept, let me be clear: Those extreme weather events are highly unlikely to have happened had … Continue reading Weather, Climate Change, Influenza, and Wizards
If you’ve not read Barbara Kingsolver’s interesting novel set in the American south, about climate change and butterflies, now is your chance to do it on the cheap, as the book is now 2.99 in Kindle form. I enjoyed it. Flight Behavior: A Novel The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner … Continue reading Kingsolver Climate Change Novel
Rapidly rising sea levels likely to happen over the next couple of decades may destroy an important part of the very Internet itself… From “Lights Out: Climate Change Risk to Internet Infrasctructure, by Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Carol Barford, and Paul Barford:
R. Alexander Pyron, a professor of Biology at George Washington University, wrote an OpEd in the Washington Post urging us humans to care much less than we do about species extinction. In the essay he says:
Alaska Public Media reports that Alaska Senator and Republican Lisa Murkowski, while speaking at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, broke with the anti-Science Trump/Republican position on climate change. Specifically, she said:
Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Changeis everyperson’s guide to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The IPCC issues a periodic set of reports on the state of global climate change, and has been doing so for almost two decades. It is a massive undertaking and few have the time or training to read … Continue reading Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, Must Read Book
This graphic, by Boggis Makes Videos and put on YouTube just a few days ago, breaks all the rules of how to make effective, understandable graphs for the general public. However, if you follow all those rules, it is difficult or impossible to get certain message across. Therefore, this graphic is necessary if a bit … Continue reading An Interesting New Graphic Showing Climate Change
This graphic, by Boggis Makes Videos and put on YouTube just a few days ago, breaks all the rules of how to make effective, understandable graphs for the general public. However, if you follow all those rules, it is difficult or impossible to get certain message across. Therefore, this graphic is necessary if a bit … Continue reading An interesting new graphic showing climate change
True that. In the US, energy policy and regulation happens much more at the state level than the federal level, and our federal government went belly up last January anyway. Some states will not lead, they will go backwards, but others will lead, and show the way. So, here I want to highlight this new … Continue reading States Can Lead the Way on Climate Change
Ya don’t know, you just don’t know. Note: I’m pretty sure that at the time Trump made those remarks, the Coast Guard was still hunkered down.
Three statisticians go hunting for rabbit. They see a rabbit. The first statistician fires and misses, her bullet striking the ground below the beast. The second statistician fires and misses, their bullet striking a branch above the lagomorph. The third statistician, a lazy frequentist, says, “We got it!” OK, that joke was not 1/5th as … Continue reading New Research on Assessing Climate Change Impact on Extreme Weather