Mr. Nye had come to talk to them, and a few thousand of their friends, at Iowa State University. If he were a politician, college students would be his base. Instead, he is something more: a figure from their early days in front of the family TV, a beloved teacher and, more and more these days, a warrior for science. They, in turn, are his fans, his students and his army.
Talking Points Memo wrote of this:
Over the last few years, media outlets have been among the worst offenders maintaining virtual radio silence on how extreme weather patterns may be the result of manmade climate change. But CBS broke this so-called “climate silence” on Face the Nation Sunday, hosting a panel of meteorologists and climatologists to discuss the floods, droughts, and tornadoes that have plagued the country with increasing ferocity.
This is what climate change will do to San Diego. There are other examples of what could happen to other cities in the USA…kiss Miami, Charleston, S.C. and New Orleans (amongst others) goodbye.
Urgent Action: tell Senators not to fast track coal exports
Big Coal and its allies are attempting to sneak through a last-minute budget amendment to stop federal agencies from limiting the greenhouse gas emissions of exported coal and other fuels. Right now agencies are legally bound to consider the health and climate impacts of greenhouse gases when reviewing export proposals — including coal.
But under Senator Barrasso’s (R-WY) amendment (#184), agencies would be barred from considering environmental impacts from exporting coal or other fossil fuels.
If this amendment passes there will be nothing to stop Big Coal from sending millions of tons of U.S. coal to be burned in China. And we’ll all pay the climate and health consequences.
Here’s more background on the issue:
- Under the National Environmental Policy Act, an agency that issues a permit for a major project involving the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels has to consider the impacts of burning those fuels on the health and well-being of Americans, regardless of whether those fuels are burned in the U.S. or whether they are exported and burned somewhere else in the world
- When it comes to greenhouse gases, the impacts on Americans are exactly the same wherever the fuel is burned, because carbon pollution spreads globally and respects no boundaries.
- But under this new amendment the agencies would be forced to ignore the impacts on Americans, just because the fuels were exported.
- All this does is protect the profits of the big corporations that export fossil fuels, at the expense of the health and well-being of the American people.
Global warming deniers often claim that bias prevents them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals. But 24 articles in 18 different journals, collectively making several different arguments against global warming, expose that claim as false. Articles rejecting global warming can be published, but those that have been have earned little support or notice, even from other deniers.
A few deniers have become well known from newspaper interviews, Congressional hearings, conferences of climate change critics, books, lectures, websites and the like. Their names are conspicuously rare among the authors of the rejecting articles. Like those authors, the prominent deniers must have no evidence that falsifies global warming.
This improved certainty allows us to say definitively that both Antarctica and Greenland have been losing ice,” lead author Andrew Shepherd of the University of Leeds in Britain, told reporters. Not only that, but the pace has tripled from the 1990s, the data indicate.
Combining satellite data from dozens of earlier studies, the study “shows that the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have contributed just over 11 millimeters (0.4 inches) to global sea levels since 1992,” he added. Two-thirds was from Greenland, a third from Antarctica.
That’s 20 percent of all sea level rise over the last two decades, with the rest mostly from thermal expansion of waters due to warming sea temperatures, the authors noted. In recent years, however, the percentage “has gone up significantly” to nearly 40 percent, added co-author Michiel van den Broeke from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
A few days ago, I was walking in my condo complex, I saw these plants flowering in October and it got me wondering if climate change is getting them to flower in the autumn.
Hotter in San Diego
l3fan-o-rama replied to your photo: 100° F (37.8° C) in City Heights at 7:20 p.m. on…
hot as balls today. we are vacationing in sd and did not expect this…
This kind of heat is unique. It’s a new peak for me. One would have the heat but not the humidity this time of year with Santa Ana winds, but it seems like those are a thing of the past. Were this a Santa Ana, the heat would have dropped to at least 85° in the car by that time. The humidity, the monsoon flow, holds the heat and won’t let it go.
100° F (37.8° C) in City Heights at 7:20 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2012
We got climate change.
Once properly developed, nuclear fusion could provide an unlimited supply of electricity, with no significant environmental impacts.
You think that man is still going to put resources in to figuring out how to keep the genie in the bottle?…OK.
