Climate Change Elucidated

As we have discussed in several earlier blogs, there are a number of carbon dioxide regulatory bills currently sitting in Congress. Eventually, some of these bills will likely get passed, but it could take a few years. According to some…

A study just released (link is their first news release on their page) Monday by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) says that a rapid development and implementation of advanced electricity technologies could reduce the costs of cutting future…

NOAA just released some July climate statistics for the U.S. and world. Here are some of the highlights from the press release I just received……… –The global average temperature (combined sea and land) was the seventh warmest on record for…

In a forecast update, researchers from the University of Colorado on Thursday stated that there is now a 92% probability that Arctic sea ice will melt to a record low this September. partially due to man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Arctic…

In a recent entry in our Global Perspective Blog (The Scientific Climate), Elliot Abrams touched on a couple of interesting topics, including the emotionally charged nature of the climate change debate. Elliot also briefly discussed the correction that resulted in…

The idea of pumping sulphur particles into the atmosphere as a last-ditch solution to global warming might have hit a snag, according to a pair of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. This process is supposed…

In her latest installment of Headline: Earth, Katie Fehlinger talks to Tom Delworth of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Delworth is a research scientist who works on global climate models, and he discusses some of what goes into the…

U.S. Representative John Dingell (D-Mich) who is the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman plans to introduce anti-global warming legislation that includes a new tax of 50 cents a gallon on gasoline, which would be part of a broader carbon…

There was a story last week, which most of you already know about, in that Mr. Steve McIntyre pointed out some errors in the NASA GISTEMP analysis for some stations across North America, which in the end made 1934 the…

I know some of you have already talked about this one already, but here it is….. Climate scientists at the UK Met Office predict that at least half of the five years after 2009 will be hotter globally than 1998,…