House Dems Try To Link Natural Disasters To Climate Change In Hearing
CCD Editor’s Note: Yesterday, the House Oversight and Reform Environmental Subcommittee held a Hearing on Recovery, Resilience, and Readiness – Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change. It’s fascinating to watch Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann try to…
Guest blog – The (new) M4 is no more! by Ian Rappel
Ian Rappel is a conservationist and activist of 25 years. He’s currently Chief Executive for Gwent Wildlife Trust, and lives in Talgarth on the northern fringes of the Black Mountains. In March 2017 he wrote a guest blog here entitled…
Computer scientists predict lightning and thunder with the help of artificial intelligence
(Saarland University) Together with Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst, computer science professor Jens Dittrich and his doctoral student Christian Schön from Saarland University are working on a system that is supposed to predict local thunderstorms more precisely than before.
New Research for week #25, 2019
Posted on 25 June 2019 by SkS-Team 49 publications for this week. The last paper in this week’s list features Skeptical Science volunteer and highly cited researcher Stephan Lewandowsky along with Skeptical Science founder John Cook as first and second…
Oregon GOP Won’t Return Until Expensive Carbon Tax Bill Is Scrapped
One of the runaway Oregon Republican senators said they won’t return to the state until the “inefficient, complicated, and expensive” carbon tax is scrapped and a bipartisan solution is found. Oregon State Senator Tim Knopp appeared on “Fox and Friends”…
Scientists Suggest Turning Methane Into Carbon Dioxide Could Reduce Global Warming – Forbes
A group of climate researchers from Stanford University have proposed that an effort to turn one of the worst greenhouse gases, methane, into carbon dioxide – not the worst greenhouse, but much more abundant – could still work out positive for the…
Greenland Ice-Loss Predictions Are Clouded By Clouds
Predicting where, how and how quickly Greenland’s ice will melt is difficult. Projections by the best models are cloudy, and new research suggests clouds are doing the clouding. Currently, models of Greenland’s melting ice sheet put the greatest emphasis on…
A new material that's part plastic and part rock is forming on this Portuguese island
Ignacio Gestoso first found signs of plastic-infused rocks during a 2016 visit to Madeira. (Photo: Ignacio Gestoso) You know we have a problem when our plastic pollution starts becoming a permanent fixture of the planet’s geology. And that seems to…
10 takeaways from Circularity 19
A few sips from the firehose of insights that spewed from three days of North America’s largest circular economy event.
New research shows how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the sea
(University of Bristol) The findings of a research expedition to coastal Greenland which examined, for the first time, how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the oceans has been published in the journal Progress in Oceanography.
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