Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The short summary is this – progress was made, but it is simply not enough to address the galloping pace of climate change. What has been agreed is not pointless, it does help, and yet which would you rather be, nearly saved or nearly drowned. Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, … Read more
Starting in 2006 an annual Arctic report card has been published by NOAA. The 2018 Report card is now available, and it is not exactly good news. The more appropriate word is perhaps “dire”. The 2018 Report Card Here is a brief summary of it all … Highlights Surface air temperatures in the Arctic continued to … Read more
Next Sunday on 2nd December 2018 the next UN Climate Change conference starts. It runs from 2-14 Dec in Katowice, Poland. This is the international body that pulled together what is commonly referred to as the Paris Agreement, and so this conference is all part of that roadmap. As input for this conference, the UN 2018 … Read more
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published their latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on 22nd Nov. Warning: It is not good news. You can find it on this page here. Let’s go though some of the highlights within it. Greenhouse Gases are all still Increasing The following chart is the summary of it all. It shows that the … Read more
On the 31st October a paper was published in Nature that laid out the evidence for Earth’s oceans soaking up about 60% more heat that had been previously estimated. On 2nd Nov I wrote a posting that highlighted it. Since then there has been an update on all of this. Mathematician Nic Lewis, who is … Read more
When we think of the term “Global Warming” we often tend to think of it as a measurement of specific things. For example weather extremes such as an increase in the frequency or distribution of storms, or rising temperatures. Familiar as they all are, they are not the only metrics. There are other very specific … Read more
