Daily Archives: July 18, 2011

One year with unusual erosion proves a trend. 2009 winter coastal erosion linked to climate change By SUZANNE BOHAN Oakland Tribune Posted: 07/18/2011 01:43:09 AM PDT Updated: 07/18/2011 01:43:10 AM PDT The storms that battered the West Coast during the winter of … Continue reading →

During an economic depression, it is always a good idea to force employers to purchase an expensive, worthless, imaginary commodity. On July 10, the Australian government outlined a national carbon pricing scheme to tax greenhouse gas emissions at $23AUD per … Continue reading →

“The Arctic we see today is very different from the Arctic we saw even five years ago,” Jackie Richter-Menge, the report’s chief technical editor, said in a statement. “It’s a warmer place with less thick and more mobile sea ice, … Continue reading →

Given time lags of 30-50 years, we might have already put enough extra greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to have crossed a threshold to these bombs exploding, their released greenhouse gases leading to ever accelerating global warming with future global … Continue reading →

“I met Jack Kennedy, and Barack Obama is no Jack Kennedy” Cape Canaveral — NASA’s mighty astronaut corps has become a shadow of what it once was. And it’s only going to get smaller. It’s down to 60 from an … Continue reading →

In celebrating the success of this weekend’s non-event known as Carmageddon, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said he wanted to give everyone in the city “A big hug.” I will politely decline the political embrace, because instead of a big hug, all … Continue reading →

    It may be ice, but it is a dry ice. http://www.hotelarctic.com/om_hotel_arctic/webcam/

That is why everyone is moving from Florida to Winnipeg.

07.12.11 Fourteen U.S. states, from North Carolina to Arizona to Texas — where conditions are crushing records set in 1917 — are currently in the midst of devastating droughts. Many are seeking emergency disaster aid; most notably so is Governor … Continue reading →

Southwestern U.S. headed for a ‘perpetual drought’ the terrible Dust Bowl years of the 1930s in North America ended, Dr. Richard Seager told the Toronto Star on Thursday. This one won’t. http://www.thestar.com/ Heavy rain is forecast for the permanent drought … Continue reading →