Jim Hansen Talks about Climate Change
Speaking in San Francisco’s Herbst Theater recently for City Arts and Lectures, Jim Hansen talks of the public perception of global warming, how the science has progressed, and the surprising rapidity...
View ArticleEnviro News Wrap: Rick Perry – an American Idiot? Keystone Pipeline Gets...
GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: Rick Perry, my new favorite American idiot. Ricky Perry thinks Climate...
View ArticleThe Water-Energy Nexus in a Climate-Changed World
Editor’s note: This post is a finalist in Masdar’s Engage blogging contest as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. Special thanks to Tim Hurst and Nick Aster. The water-energy nexus – the...
View ArticleResearch Suggests Climate Models Underestimate Climate Sensitivity
Climate models are wrong? Climate models are mathematical representation of an enormously complex system. They are intended to project trends, not predict events. They are an imperfect but...
View ArticleNASA Dataset Projects Climate Change in the 21st Century
NASA has released and opened a set of data to the public that shows how temperature and rainfall patterns may change through the year 2100 as a result of the ongoing rise in greenhouse gas (GHG)...
View ArticleLand Masses Soaking Up More Water as Climate Warms
As ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, continents and land masses around the world are soaking up and storing more water. That’s temporarily slowing sea level rise, according to new research from...
View ArticleNew Cloud Study Helps Reconcile Climate Model Predictions with Empirical Data
A study published July 11 in the online edition of Nature may explain why storm tracks, such as the paths of hurricanes and typhoons, may be shifting as a result of a warming climate. The research...
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