Tracking Global Warming Means Finding The Flaw In Old Data – NPR
Scientists are using statistics, history and computer modeling to understand exactly how much hotter the oceans are today then they were before industrialization. Harvard researchers just found a clue in shipping records digitized after WWII. Suomi NPP — VIIRS/NASA Earth…
Why climate change is so hard to tackle: The global problem – Axios
Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for aggressive action to reduce heat-trapping emissions, while nations are facing pressure to ramp up commitments ahead of a major United Nations summit next month. The big picture: Despite that fervor, progress on climate change…
Meet WASP-121b, a hot âheavy metalâ exoplanet
For the first time, heavy metal gases like magnesium and iron have been detected floating away from an exoplanet, a planet orbiting a distant sun. Why? Because the planet – which is about as big as Jupiter – is orbiting perilously close to its star.
New discipline proposed: Macro-energy systems — the science of the energy transition
(Stanford University) In a perspective published in Joule on August 14, a group of researchers led by Stanford University propose a new academic discipline, ‘macro-energy systems,’ as the science of the energy transition.
2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #33
Latest Posts Archives Climate Hustle Posted on 17 August 2019 by John Hartz A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Aug 11 through Sat, Aug 17, 2019 Editor’s…
Scott Morrison blasted by Pacific heat while trying to project calm on climate | Katharine Murphy
We’ll get to climate, and the rumble in the Pacific, but I want to begin closer to home. It’s been a busy news week, so you might have missed an excellent story from my colleague Adam Morton on Tuesday revealing…
Why we need fewer, smaller, lighter, slower cars: Plastic particulates from tire wear are being found in the Arctic
This problem gets worse as cars get bigger and heavier, no matter what they are powered by.
The ‘tipping point’ has arrived as temperatures rise in 70 US counties
Looks like the heat is on this summer … even in Alaska thanks to what has been referred to as the “tipping point.” Apparently, the warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — or the global average forewarned against in the 2015 Paris Agreement centered on climate change — has hit some places in the United States pretty hard. Related: For
example, according to the Washington Post the fastest state to experience such warming is
Alaska which has seen a recent increase
of…
This Isn’t A Map of Global Warming, It’s A Map of Corrupted Temperature Stations
Kevin Drum published this map on his blog, which he says was originally from the Washington Post. He does not include a link so I can’t give any more background on the chart. For example, I have no idea which…
OLYMPICS: Tokyo’s summer heat forces triathlon test to be shortened
Tokyo’s summer heat has forced an Olympic women’s triathlon qualifying event to be shortened because of high temperatures that are likely to affect next year’s games.
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