On the Verge of the Darkness: Dystopic Movies and Contemporary Global Challenges
E-International Relations,
Critiquing dystopic movies as representations of the here and now is a good method to raise interest about modern challenges…
Critiquing dystopic movies as representations of the here and now is a good method to raise interest about modern challenges…
Source: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september16/patton/09patton.htmlD-Lib MagazineSeptember/October 2016Volume 22, Number 9/10Table…
Article by Robert M. Patton, Christopher G. Stahl and Jack C. Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A temperature increase of less than one degree has already disrupted the global climate system, and this is only the beginning.
This is a re-post from Roz Pidcock at Carbon…
Which of the many thousands of papers on climate change published each year in scientific journals are the most successful?
IPCC reports have extensive reference lists but unfortunately they don’t include direct links to papers. Below are the…
IPCC reports have extensive reference lists but unfortunately they don’t include direct links to papers. Below are the…
We have learnt a lot from the 2007/8 food price spike, but the future will be a bumpy ride says GFS Champion Tim Benton. The…
by Andrew Glikson“The 1st Law of Humanity: Don’t kill your children!”(Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, chief climate advisor to the…
For the globe overall, last month turned out to be the second warmest June on record, data from NASA's Goddard Institute for…
Image: This extraordinary photograph of the bushfires engulfing the small Tasmanian town of Dunally in January 2013 shows Tammy…
By Andrew Glikson, Australian National UniversityAndrew Glikson, earth andpaleo-climate scientist atAustralian National…
By James Stafford, editor of OilPrice. Cross posted from…
The link between extreme weather events, climate change, and national security is discussed in Extreme Realities, a new episode…
By Chip…
I am searching for papers on the variability of climate and its natural variability and possible changes due to climate change.
There are extremes and then there are EXTREMES. Last year seemed to bring one weather-related disaster after another, including…
by James Bradbury and Sarah Parsons, via the World Resources Institute According to new data, 2012 was a chart-topping year for…
Columnist Doug Friedenberg looks at why the American understanding of climate science has been exceptional, why substantial…
Superstorm Sandy hit North America's east coast in a devastating way. This justifies an analysis of the forces behind Sandy and…
Here are some reflections occasioned by (1) Andy Revkin's excellent dotearth blog post on the relationship between climate…
It should come as no surprise that as Hurricane Sandy spiraled up the eastern seaboard, a variety of media outlets sought to…
Da “EcoEquity”. Traduzione di Massimiliano Rupaltidi Tom Athanasiou Ricordate quando il cambiamento climatico era qualcosa del…
By Andrew Glikson, Australian National UniversityAndrew Glikson, earth andpaleo-climate scientist atAustralian National…
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck…
Just a quick follow-up to the previous post on attributing extreme weather events to climate change. Joe over at It’s Okay to…
Frank…
There has been a lot of discussion related to the Hansen et al (2012, PNAS) paper and the accompanying op-ed in the Washington…
by Frank Lowenstein and Evan Girvetz, via Planet Change In the wake of the economic crash of 2008, the resilience of millions…
By Evan Girvetz and Frank…
I found this data graphic entirely too interesting: The graphic comes from The Economist, and is based on last week’s PNAS…
By Keith Kloor, a freelance journalist whose stories have appeared in a range of publications, from Science to Smithsonian.
Let me be clear right off the top: global warming is real. There is vastly overwhelming evidence for it and scientific…
Is that a three omicron? Nope. Three, rho? Strike two. Our latest Earth Indicator is three-sigma. In Greek, sigma (σ) is the…
by 21TonGiant Extreme Heat Is Covering More of the Earth, a Study Says [Via NYT > NYTimes.com Home] The percentage of the earth…
Even ignoring the wildfires and drought this season, the sweltering heat itself is proclaiming this an intense summer. And…
Even ignoring the wildfires and drought this season, the sweltering heat itself is proclaiming this an intense summer. And…
Even ignoring the wildfires and drought this season, the sweltering heat itself is proclaiming this an intense summer. And…
Bloomberg: The likelihood of unusually warm or cool weather events has increased over the past 30 years, according to NASA’s…
The drought and heat wave of 2011, an example of an extreme event. …
We'll be on travel for the next two weeks, returning to Washington, DC, on August 20. Posting will be infrequent, if we post at…
By James Hansen, Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy (available at PDF here)The greatest barrier to public recognition of human-made…
Captain Kimo, via…
Calling climate change an issue of intergenerational justice on a par with ending slavery, James Hansen will argue in his…