Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
It is here. The long anticipated IPCC 1.5 C Special report #SR15 report has been formally issued. Here are the links that take you directly to the alpha source and so bypass all of the press articles. The press release Frequently Asked Questions The Summary For Policy Makers (SPM) The full report What is Driving this … Read more
For those living in the arctic region, there is no debate regarding the reality of climate change. Each and every year they can see the ongoing decline of sea ice. Every season marks another data point. NSIDC Update If you check out the National Snow and Ice data centre then you can find very precise … Read more
From 12-14 September the Global Climate Action summit took place in San Francisco. This was a time for focus and a place for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action on what is the most important challenge our species has ever faced. Hosted by Gov Jerry Brown it has indeed lived up to the vision that initiated … Read more
In the not too recent past the BBC has managed to make a complete hash of their climate change reporting. Last August 2017 Al Gore was in the UK promoting the sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”. The BBC quite rightly interviewed him on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship program “Today”, a slot that literally millions tune into … Read more
On a planet where we are increasing the amount of greenhouse gases, both the atmosphere and also the ocean become warmer. The rather obvious consequence is of course the the melting of ice and rising sea level, but other things also happen. Tropical Cyclones, (also known as Hurricanes) which are driven by warm oceans become … Read more
Elizabeth Shogren writes in Reveal on 10th Sept about the censorship of National Park foundation documents. Apparently they contained naughty words that should not be committed to paper. To be specific it involved the specific term “Climate Change”. Under the title “National park officials were told climate change was ‘sensitive.’ So they removed it from … Read more
