Earth by mid-2010 was experiencing its warmest decade, the warmest year, and the warmest April, May and June on the instrumental record. In 2010, Russia (at 111 degrees F.), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (both 126), Niger (118), Sudan (121), and Pakistan (at 129) set all-time temperature records.
Read morePosted In: What's HOT in Global Warming
Why coal? Why here? Why now?
Read morePosted In: What's HOT in Global Warming
A funny thing happened to the climate contrarians on their way to driving a stake through the heart of global warming last winter. It was the fifth warmest winter on the instrumental record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center. The average global temperature for the winter was 54.09 degrees F.—1.08 above average.
Read morePosted In: What's HOT in Global Warming
Nasty winter, eh? Enough to make some of us question the association between sanity and a Nebraska address. La Vida Buena, anyone? I could use a transfer to the University of Nebraska at Key West.
Read morePosted In: What's HOT in Global Warming
I was reading the New York Times web page in my office when a story popped in describing how “dozens of developing countries, including China and India, threatened to walk out [of the Copenhagen climate talks] in protest, saying that the world’s richer countries were not doing enough to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.” Within minutes of that post, I received an email from NASA scientist James Hansen regarding a new paper he and several colleagues (most of them from China) had just had published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, entitled “Black Soot and the Survival of Tibetan Glaciers.”
Read morePosted In: What's HOT in Global Warming
