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A climate hero: The early years A look back at James Hansen's seminal testimony on climate, part one	Guest author	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Worldwatch Institute is partnering with Grist to bring you this three-part series commemorating the 20-year anniversary of NASA scientist James Hansen’s groundbreaking testimony on global climate change next week. It is written by Worldwatch staff writer Ben Block. Here follows part one. Part two is here. ----- The speakers at a Washington, D.C., climate rally this past Earth Day, April 22, showcased the range of the modern environmental movement. They includ ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, National Academy of Sciences, politics (all these topics)

CEI-yai-yai CEI deniers praise Andy Revkin, diss Tiger Woods	Joseph Romm	14 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I'd like to thank the Competitive Enterprise Institute for publishing such an unintentionally informative and amusing newsletter. Rarely has the anti-scientific nature of global warming denial been so well stated in a mere two sentences: A scientist who says that the atmosphere is warming, and cites certain physical processes, is still a scientist. A scientist who argues that people must take certain acts to avoid disaster has become a priest. In other word ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Guess I won't be seaing you Arctic sea ice update: 2008 poised to repeat -- or beat -- 2007	Joseph Romm	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
For months, the deniers have been extolling the fact that the Arctic sea saw record refreezing last fall. And they have been claiming that this somehow fits into the absurd claim that the planet is now in a major cooling trend. But back in the real world, the planet keeps warming, and the Arctic is taking the worst of it, which could lead to potentially catastrophic methane emissions from the tundra, as noted here. The National Snow and Ice Data Center just reported:A ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

I'm melting Breaking news: Permafrost loss linked to Arctic sea ice loss	Joseph Romm	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A major new study published Friday in Geophysical Research Letters by leading tundra experts has found 'Accelerated Arctic land warming and permafrost degradation during rapid sea ice loss.' The lead author is David Lawrence of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who I interviewed for my book and recently interviewed again via email about his recent work. The study's ominous conclusion:We find that simulated western Arctic land warming trends during rapid sea ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (all these topics)

Still, waters run deep Mainstream media misses connection between global warming and Midwest floods	Joseph Romm	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The British and the Chinese understand global warming has driven their record flooding. The United States? Not so much. Although you wouldn't know it from most U.S. media coverage, the record 'once-in-a-hundred-year flooding' the Midwest now seems to be getting every decade or so is precisely what scientists have been expecting from the warming. A 2004 analysis [PDF] by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center found an increase during the 20th century of 'precipitation ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

IEA report, Part 2 I've got the 450-ppm solution about right	Joseph Romm	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Part 1 discussed the basic conclusion of the new International Energy Agency report -- cutting global emissions in half by 2050 is not costly. In fact, the total shift in investment needed to stabilize at 450 ppm is only about 1.1 percent of GDP per year, and that is not a 'cost' or hit to GDP, because much of that investment goes toward saving expensive fuel. In this post, I will discuss the basic solution IEA is proposing. I will also start to look at how the report ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Hi, my name is Sean and I'm fallible The challenges of reconciling science and policy	Sean Casten	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a post that I'm virtually certain will be misinterpreted. But it's an important enough issue that I'm going to bet that my writing skills are sufficient to provide clarity to a rather muddy issue. First off, though, a disclaimer: Science is good. Policy informed by science is good. Leadership informed by science is good. The alternative to all of the above is bad. Nothing I am about to say is to be taken as support for creationism, global warming denial, ...
Topics: climate science, legislation, climate (all these topics)

Blast from the future Why does the Post let conservative columnists make up climate facts?	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Memo: To Washington Post, circa 2008 From: Future Historians of America (FHA), circa [you wouldn't believe us if we told you] Re: Historical Fact Checking Via: T-mail (Tachyon-Mail) As we attempt to document the reasons carbon dioxide concentrations are currently 945 ppm and rising 5 ppm a year, the FHA has a few questions we hope you can answer for us. It seems like every time the United States contemplated legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

NASA inspector general: NASA suppressed climate science	David Roberts	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Remember when James Hansen made a big fuss, saying NASA has been distorting, downplaying, and outright censoring climate science? And conservatives launched a wave of personal attacks against him? Well according to NASA's inspector general, Hansen was right.
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen, shenanigans (all these topics)

Krauthammer, Part II The real reason conservatives don't believe in climate science	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Part I discussed the odd anti-science part of Krauthammer's screed, 'Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment.' I ended by asking, Why does he break faith with so many conservatives and worship at the altar of evolution science, but stick with them on climate denial? My book discusses this general question at length, and offers the answer: The answer is that ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to g ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, dumbassery (all these topics)

News flash: Newton's laws were 'overthrown' Bizarre talking points of WaPo columnist Krauthammer	Joseph Romm	31 May 2008	Gristmill
Sir Isaac Newton is one of the towering geniuses in all human history. Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer? Not so much. Krauthammer has written a classic anti-science screed, 'Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment,' that recasts many favorite anti-scientific denier memes in odd terms. You still hear and see all of these today, so let me touch on a few of them. And as I will discuss in Part 2, the article is most useful be ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, insanity (all these topics)

Lethal injections Science: Geo-engineering scheme damages the ozone layer	Joseph Romm	30 May 2008	Gristmill
Science has published a major new study, 'The Sensitivity of Polar Ozone Depletion to Proposed Geoengineering Schemes' ($ub. req'd). The study finds: The large burden of sulfate aerosols injected into the stratosphere by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 cooled Earth and enhanced the destruction of polar ozone in the subsequent few years. The continuous injection of sulfur into the stratosphere has been suggested as a 'geoengineering' scheme to counteract global w ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, geoengineering, ozone (all these topics)

Checking it twice More than 1,700 scientists and economists call for deep cuts in U.S. emissions	David Roberts	30 May 2008	Gristmill
You know how some wackadoo rightwing group is always touting a new list of scientists who don't believe in global warming? And it always turns out the list is populated with a bunch of random people who either don't know they're on it or don't have the first bit of expertise on the subject? Well, the Union of Concerned Scientists is trying a different tack. They've compiled a list composed of actual Ph.D. climate scientists who have published in peer-reviewed journa ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, Union of Concerned Scientists (all these topics)

Well, You Don't Say White House admits humans causing climate change		29 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:00 PM on 29 May 2008 The White House has begrudgingly admitted that "most of the recent global warming is very likely due to human generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations." In a 271-page report -- court-ordered and four years late -- federal scientists have created a "one-stop shop" summary of potential climate impacts on the U.S. environment, economy, and public health. The report ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, progress, White House (all these topics)

Boxer bill update Probably no U.S. CO2 emissions cuts from new Lieberman-Warner bill until after 2025	Joseph Romm	28 May 2008	Gristmill
I made a mistake about the Boxer substitute for the Lieberman-Warner bill. Every year, it allows enough offsets into the market to cover 30 percent of the total quantity of emissions allowances. I had said it was 15 percent, which was a loophole the size of the Gateway Arch. How big a loophole is 30 percent offsets? Wait and see. I had said the three offsets -- domestic, international, and international forestry -- could make up 15 percent of allowances because the ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Slip of the tundra CO2 released from disappearing permafrost must be factored into climate projections	Joseph Romm	23 May 2008	Gristmill
What is the point of no return for the climate -- the level of CO2 concentrations beyond which catastrophic outcomes are virtually unstoppable? No one knows for sure, but my vote goes for the point at which we start to lose a substantial fraction of the tundra's carbon to the atmosphere -- substantial being 0.1 percent per year! As we saw in my last post, frozen away in the permafrost is more carbon than the atmosphere currently contains (and much of that is in the fo ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The permafrost won't be perma for long More carbon in the Arctic than previously thought	Joseph Romm	23 May 2008	Gristmill
The tundra is probably the single most important amplifying carbon-cycle feedback. None of the IPCC's climate models, however, include carbon emissions from a defrosting tundra as a feedback. Yet, as NOAA reported last month, levels of methane (a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) rose last year for the first time since 1998, which may be an early indication of thawing permafrost. So it seems like a good a time for a review and update of what we know. The tund ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The Will to disbelieve Conservative pundit correctly recognizes the radical implications of the polar bear decision	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
This ran on VanityFair.com earlier today. George Will is far from the only middle-aged Boomer pundit who spends his time shadowboxing Dirty Hippies on the Washington Post editorial page, but his Thursday column is a doozy even by that genre's dubious standards. Seems the Communist Greens, with their 'hostility to markets' and contempt for individual freedom, have teamed up with Activist Judges yet again. They're after America's vital fluids! Amidst the error and ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, endangered species, habitat loss, polar bears (all these topics)

They blinded me with bad science Should you believe anything John Christy and Roy Spencer say?	Joseph Romm	22 May 2008	Gristmill
I don't believe 'em. But should you? You can't read everything or listen to everybody. Life is just too short. I debated Christy years ago, so I know he tries to peddle unscientific nonsense when he thinks he can get away with it. But some of the comments in my recent post 'The deniers are winning, especially with the GOP' can't seem to get enough of the analyses by these two scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville who famously screwed up the satell ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, shenanigans (all these topics)

350.org conference call	David Roberts	22 May 2008	Gristmill
As he told Grist readers earlier this year, Bill McKibben is kicking off a new campaign based around the number 350 -- as in 350 parts-per-million of CO2 in the atmosphere, the level scientists like Jim Hansen now believe is the safe upper threshold. (The bad news: we're already closing in on 390.) The website, 350.org, officially launches in June, and in the meantime you can check out the 350 Challenge. McKibben held a conference call with bloggers yesterday, wherei ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate science, grassroots activism, websites (all these topics)

What's happening in the world of Brave Heresy? RPJr. is at it again	David Roberts	20 May 2008	Gristmill
Roger Pielke Jr., last seen bobbing and weaving in an online bout with an Actual Scientist -- and getting pummeled -- can now be found in a story in the Moonie-owned, far-right Washington Times: Roger A. Pielke, environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, and not previously a global warming skeptic, reacted to the Nature article: 'Climate models are of no practical use beyond providing some intellectual authority in the promotional battle over ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

CJR panel on climate journalism	David Roberts	20 May 2008	Gristmill
The Columbia Journalism Review recently held a roundtable on climate journalism: There were three journalists: Andrew Revkin, the New York Times's lead climate reporter/blogger; Bill Blakemore, who has spearheaded climate coverage at ABC News for the last four years; and John Rennie, the editor in chief of Scientific American who recently helped craft two issues on climate change that have sold better any other issue in the magazine's long history. And there were two ...
Topics: climate, climate science, IPCC, magazines (all these topics)

Cause and effect Human-caused warming is resulting in a broad range of impacts across the globe	Joseph Romm	15 May 2008	Gristmill
Nature has published the first article to 'formally link observed global changes in physical and biological systems to human-induced climate change, predominantly from increasing greenhouse gases.' See news story here and the article, 'Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change' (subs. req'd, abstract below). NASA's discussion of the piece here explains, 'human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natur ...
Topics: climate, climate science (all these topics)

Our tails get in the way The problems and principles of energy descent	Sharon Astyk	15 May 2008	Gristmill
'How did you get there, Roo?' asked Piglet. 'On Tigger's back! And Tiggers can't climb downwards, because their tails get in the way, only upwards, and Tigger forgot about that when we started, and he's only just remembered. So we've got to stay here for ever and ever -- unless we go higher. What did you say, Tigger? Oh, Tigger says if we go higher we shan't be able to see Piglet's house so well, so we're going to stop here.' -- A.A. Milne, 'The House At Pooh Corn ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate science, energy, fossil fuels (all these topics)

The jewel of denial The delayers' paradox	Joseph Romm	14 May 2008	Gristmill
The primary goal of the global warming deniers and their disciples is to waste time and delay action, which is why I prefer to call them delayers. (This post is inspired by the surprising finding that only 27 percent of conservatives say the earth is warming because of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels.) The delayers' paradox The deniers and delayers are those who argue that failing to embrace strict reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions will not lead to s ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

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