Anybody interested in a collaborative something for this? Call for Panels/Papers AAG 2014 Convenors: Elizabeth Johnson, Harlan Morehouse, University of Minnesota Rory Rowan, Wageningen University There is a growing consensus that in the 21st century the planet is no longer the concern of geologists and climate scientists alone, but that philosophical and social thought must …
Would be just that bit better without the canned laughter…
From Wikipedia Derecho comes from the Spanish word for “straight” (cf. “direct”) in contrast with a tornado which is a “twisted” wind.[1] The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on …
Go to http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/131-years-of-global-warming-in-26-seconds/ to see 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds The data comes from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures. As NASA notes, “in this animation, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower …
Climate change is here… NARRATION Something has changed too, for the Tuart trees. At Lake Clifton, south of Perth, their twisted skeletons rise through the peppermint groves. These ones died in the 1990s. In other areas, they are failing to fruit, and the species’ seed bank is drastically declining. Prof Giles Hardy Again, we …
tree death — mentions Lake Clifton but refers to deaths around the world Read More »
Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ [linking smoking with disease] that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy…if we are successful in establishing a controversy at the public level, there is an opportunity …
The Australian, Weekend Review, August 13-14, p. 4 Was surprised to read that according to Jane “when Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991 it threw out more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in its entire time on earth”. Googled this phrase and its part of …
Jane Fraser writes an opinion piece based on rumour-mongering chain-emails Read More »
The icelandic earthquake Eyjafjallajöku erupted a number of times in April and May 2010 causing considerable interference to airplane travel. According to Wikipedia what made this volcanic activity so disruptive to air travel was the combination of the following four factors: The volcano’s location is directly under the jet stream The direction of the jet …
They’re up there! First time in months.
Where is the action we need?
A video from Oxfam
Considering that I am finally getting a chance to get to Europe to do a workshop and present a paper I am hoping that plans won’t be scuppered. There is a very nice gif animation here — and you can get it on a tshirt (I’m waiting for the animated version)! http://nl.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=16kxkb6&s=5 This animation is …
Released yesterday by the Minister for Climate Change and Water, the Hon. Penny Wong, the report forecast reductions in runoff in South West Western Australia up to 49% over the next 20 years.
Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. This is a film called Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip by Leo Murray. Does it explain or hinder? Does it paralyse or promote action? Rhetoric or persuasion? I liked the poor man carrying the fat man …
Banks Island, Canada – Expanded Ranges. The Inuit now regularly see species common much further south that previously were never seen on the island, such as robins and barn swallows. Thunder and lightning, never before recorded in Inuit oral history, have also been reported. http://www.climatehotmap.org/namerica.html