No question. I remain horrified by the fact that civil rights style protests are necessary to help sway the general public and perhaps the Trump Administration for the cause of pure science. Scientists should be looked up to as the definitive experts on policy decisions by any government. After all, science has given us practically […]
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Roadmap to Recovery…. There is Hope
I promised that my next post would be more positive, so what I will present here is some good news concerning the world’s efforts to stem the worst future effects of climate change. Let’s all think positive, do our part to limit carbon pollution, and trust- I’ll emphasize trust!- experts and those implementing plans. The […]
Streak Dissection
In my last post I showed that the current streak of 28 months of more daily record highs than daily record lows in the National Center for Environmental Information database for the United States was also in association with the latest warmest 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 month periods going back from March 2017 since 1895 […]
Streaking Past a Tipping Point?
Those that have visited this site know that I am big into meaningful stats. One in association with record high temperatures, and thus climate change, is the current record streak of consecutive months of more daily high records than daily low records reported in the NCEI database. That alarming streak has reached 28 months as of March […]
More March Madness
Though March 2017 across the United States was not as relatively torrid as February, the last month marked by my count a record 28 months in a row of more daily record highs than daily record lows according to the National Center for Environmental Information: Yes, there were plenty of “bracket busters” or minor cold […]
Coal-Rollers…Thought That I Had Seen Everything
Editorial: In life, no matter how long one lives, we discover new, mostly wonderful things…art, writing, books, great natural landscapes, and insightful knowledge. Sometimes we come across something horrible to see, though. While reading I stumbled upon something relatively new from the world of climate change that I thought I would never see and is […]
Drought Part Two…… Flash Droughts
This week’s main subject is climate change induced drought. Dr. Michael Mann this week released an article on attribution, which I cited in my post Drought or Deluge: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/03/28/drought-or-deluge/ In Drought or Deluge we discussed how in the United States droughts lasting up to about five years over the last couple of decades were ending […]
Coal Hard Facts from the book From Kyoto to Katrina to Keystone… How right wing politics hijacked the climate issue
Was peeved enough to present this allegorical chapter from World of Thermo since President Trump signed an executive order rolling back President Obama’s climate initiatives today. For a detailed look at the ramifications of Trump’s executive orders on the EPA and climate please look at Dr. Jeff Master’s blog: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3591 Story 30. Hard Coal Facts […]
Drought or Deluge?
In a chapter from my potential book, World of Thermo, in an allegorical but amusing way, I told the story of three black birds on top of a wind turbine musing over a new, or second Dust Bowl in the 2020’s here: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/03/26/world-of-thermo-wind-whistler-story/ A second Dust Bowl would not be a laughing matter, however. The first one during the […]
Extreme Temperature Index-Some Calculations and Comparisons
This week Bob Henson and I introduced the world to the concept of an index which has the potential to rank and statistically compare surface temperature records. For a detailed explanation see: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/the-extreme-temperature-index-identifying-which-records-are-most-sign.html So for this post let’s do some calculations using the ETI for some very recently set records. These come from March 21st, 2017 […]