Study: ‘Apples losing their crunch to global warming’ — But ‘consumers might not perceive these subtle changes’
Apples losing their crunch to global warming – FRANCE 24 http://www.france24.com/en/20130815-apples-losing-crunch-global-warming 15 AUGUST 2013 – 16H10 Apples losing their crunch to global warming A red apple lies among green ones at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in January. Global warming is causing apples to lose some of their crunch but is also making them […]
Obama Says Hurricanes Are Getting More Deadly — Reality Check: ’23 of the 25 deadliest US hurricanes since 1850 occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. 94% of the deaths occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. 92% of these deaths occurred before Obama was born’
Via Real Science: Obama Says Hurricanes Are Getting More Deadly http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-says-hurricanes-are-getting-more-deadly Twenty-three of the twenty-five deadliest US hurricanes since 1850 occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. 94% of the deaths occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. 92% of these deaths occurred before Obama was born. Deadliest U.S. Hurricanes of All Time | Weather Underground
New peer-reviewed paper: ‘Our findings contradict the view that a warming world will automatically be one of more overall climatic variation’ — ‘Evidence from Greenland ice cores shows that year-to-year temperature variability was probably higher in some past cold periods’
Uh oh: New peer-reviewed paper: “Our findings contradict the view that a warming world will automatically be one of more overall climatic variation.” http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/08/uh-oh-new-peer-reviewed-paper-findings.html No increase in global temperature variability despite changing regional patterns : Nature : Nature Publishing GroupEvidence from Greenland ice cores shows that year-to-year temperature variability was probably higher in some past […]
Report: EPA chief Lisa Jackson illegally contacted lobbyist from private email
EPA chief Lisa Jackson illegally contacted lobbyist from private email http://junkscience.com/2013/08/14/epa-chief-lisa-jackson-illegally-contacted-lobbyist-from-private-email The Washington Free Beacon reports: Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson used her private email to conduct official business, including with a lobbyist, in a possible violation of federal record laws. The emails were part of the latest batch of documents released […]
New review paper finds climate sensitivity to CO2 is miniscule
New review paper finds climate sensitivity to CO2 is miniscule http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-review-paper-finds-climate.html A new review paper from SPPI and CO2 Science finds on the basis of observations that the response of the climate to radiative forcing from clouds indicates that the “concomitant 20-year change in radiative forcing due to CO2 alone would have had to have […]
Current Wisdom: Even More Low Climate Sensitivity Estimates: The federal government is ‘ignoring all the new science indicating less expected future warming when calculating future damages, and inexplicably doubling the damages estimated to be caused by a given increment of carbon dioxide (a.k.a., social cost of carbon)’
Current Wisdom: Even More Low Climate Sensitivity Estimates http://www.cato.org/blog/current-wisdom-even-more-low-climate-sensitivity-estimates Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger The Current Wisdom is a series of monthly articles in which Patrick J. Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science, reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not have received […]
End Times! UK Guardian: ‘Are you ready to embrace the apocalypse?’ — ‘Facing up to the slow collapse of our planet is hard, but thinking apocalyptically could help us prepare for the crises to come’
Are you ready to embrace the apocalypse? | Hal Niedzviecki | Comment is free | theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/15/embrace-apocalypse?CMP=twt_gu
New paper finds Greenland melt ‘strongly influenced’ by natural geothermal heating
New paper finds Greenland melt ‘strongly influenced’ by natural geothermal heating http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-paper-finds-greenland-melt-strongly.html Greenland ice sheet IS melting but much of the heating is coming from INSIDE the earth Study suggests melting in an area is due to composition of Earth’s mantle The IceGeoHeat team claims they produced more accurate forecasts by adding their new findings […]