Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
A common rebuttal to the current concern regarding the observed climate changes that are upon us is “Oh but the climate is always changing, this is nothing new, it has been worse in the past“. There is nothing “natural” about what is currently being measured and observed, we know with a high degree of certainty … Read more
A new study that has just been published in Nature reveals that something dramatic is happening in Greenland. The title of the study is “Nonlinear rise in Greenland runoff in response to post-industrial Arctic warming“. When you are talking about a measurement of meltwater from a body of ice that by itself contains enough water … Read more
After flattening out for a few years between 2014 and 2016 the overall rates of Global carbon emissions in 2018 have once again reverted back to their rapid upwards trend. Translation: if this does not change very soon, then we are well and truly F**ked. Here are the numbers. Where do these numbers come from? … Read more
David Attenborough, who hopefully needs no introduction, has been speaking at day 1 of COP24, the UN Climate Change conference … “Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years.Climate Change. If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much … Read more
Katharine Hayhoe is not only a professor and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, but she is also the lead author on volumes one and two of the fourth national climate assessment. This means that she will find herself being faced again and again with climate change denialism and so she … Read more
As part of the buildup to the start of the UNFCC conference in Katowice, Poland tomorrow (2nd Dec 2018), various interested parties have been publishing statements and reports that feed the very best and latest evidence-based observational data into the process of understanding the #climate. As part of that pattern, the World Meteorological Organisation has issued … Read more
