How to Scare and Deceive without Lying: JPL Cries Wolf about Polar Glacial Melt
Yesterday NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory published “The Anatomy of Glacial Ice Loss.” For the most part it’s an interesting, though not particularly revolutionary, discussion of the various forces that add to and subtract from glacial ice. Nothing wrong with that.
But its authors took the opportunity to insert a poison pill, a little bit of fearmongering, in a video caption:…
Carbon Credits: Irish Farmers Being Paid to Destroy Their Fields
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Centuries of efforts to drain swamps to extend arable land in Ireland are being reversed, in an effort to trap more carbon. Cuilcagh Mountain: Coconut logs form dams to fight climate change By Conor MacauleyBBC NI Agriculture & Environment Correspondent On a County Fermanagh mountain, a helicopter has flown in……
Comparing USCRN and nClimDiv to USCHN
By Andy May Steven Mosher complained about my previous post on the difference between the final and raw temperatures in the conterminous 48 states (CONUS) as measured by NOAA’s USCHN. That post can be found here. Mosher’s comment is here. Mosher said the USHCN is no longer the official record of the CONUS temperatures. This……
Perhaps the dumbest article title ever: “The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years”… AEUHHH???
Guest “you can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton The sad thing is that this was apparently written by two geoscience professors. The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years – and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planetSeptember 30, 2020 Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks……
The Guardian: Tax Meat to Hit Paris Agreement Climate Targets
According to The Guardian, meat intake in rich countries must be cut, to help the world keep global warming under 1.5C.…
IDMC: International Climate Refugees are a Myth
IDMC, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, thinks there are lots of climate refugees, but they mainly stay at home.…