One of the biggest myths about climate change is that emissions reductions cool Earth. This is nowhere close to reality. Even the Paris Commitments of 80 percent emissions reductions by…
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The IPCC changed their fundamental philosophy on how they evaluate scenarios of our future climate in their 2013 reporting, but they have yet to acknowledge the most common and meaningful…
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Previous Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses: "A" was in 1995, "B" in 2002. The collapses around Antarctica are increasing in frequency farther south as global warming progresses. NASA Image. Scientists may…
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Ilulissat Icefjord discharge, Greenland. Looking out to sea from the mouth of the icefjord. The tallest bergs are over 200 feet high. Ice loss from Greenland has increased over 600…
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Wind scoured blue ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Katabatic winds, or gravity driven monster winds up to 150 mph sustained, can literally blow the ice away. It's easy to…
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A quick note on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's review of climate pollution reform technologies: Climate Intervention -- Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration, June 2017. Theoretical academic…
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An iceberg armada at the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord that funnels discharges from the world's fastest and most prolific ice sheet discharge glacier in Greenland. Ice loss from Greenland…
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Halloween Flood 2013 Aftermath, Austin Texas. It's all around us but masked by "noise" in the media; enabled by fairness in journalism, driven by myth that has been propagated by…
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It's a widely held misconception that implementation of Paris Climate commitments would tame the climate beast. This has no more been the case in the past than it is today.…
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Lake Buchanan, Central Texas, Drought 2011. Though generally, rainfall only bounced to record low levels once, there were several pulses (2003, 2007, 2009) where inflows to the lakes were at…
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Sea level rise erosion, South Padre Island, about mile 20 up the four-wheel drive beach. This erosion is occurring during normal, non-storm tides when the sun and moon align to…
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Ice Waves -- The most fantastic climate science of last week (that crossed my desk): This work evaluates a new discovery of melt waves of increased ice and water discharge…
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Drought kill live oak in Central Texas: These trees illustrate a portion of the findings in this article led by researchers from Purdue University. Increasing moisture in western parts of…
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Global warming psychology, this burgeoning new discipline of science that seeks to understand why we don't trust climate scientists when we trust virtually all other scientists almost implicitly, is very…
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Global warming psychology, this burgeoning new discipline of science that seeks to understand why we don't trust climate scientists when we trust virtually all other scientists almost implicitly, is very…
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Bubbles of ancient preserved air in Greenland ice tell the story of abrupt climate changes in our ancient past. (Photo: Bruce Melton) First published on Truthout, April 15, 2017. In…
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President Trump it seems, has given us permission to backslide with our thinking about climate change. Until we have rule or law that tells us we must do something about…
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The collapse of the Delaware-size Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica has begun. Caused by warming and similar to the demise of the Larsen B and Larsen A in 2003…
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The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland is the fastest-discharging glacier in the world. Pictured here is its "melange," the result of a disintegrating ice sheet, which is comprised of "brash" (crushed…
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South Padre Island, Texas: Mile 14 beyond the end of the road. There is supposed to be a big wide beach here, but erosion due mostly to sea level rise…
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