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The new geopolitics of climate change and conflict

Climate change, largely abstract in the United States, is already shaping conflicts... more

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Fox Again Turns To Tabloid For Climate Science

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Global Warming Denialism ‘Just Foolishness,’ Scientist Peter Raven Says

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Climate Change Denial and the Conservative Brain

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Vanishing act: drought and unseasonable warmth sends Colorado’s snowpack into freefall | Scholars and Rogues

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Will 2012 be the summer when Colorado finally burns to the ground? | Scholars and Rogues

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Maldives today, Manhattan tomorrow

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Fake Historian David Barton on the Environment, Abortion and Michael Vick? (VIDEO)

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'Compost bomb' is latest climate change ‘tipping point’

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A Planetary Fairy Tale

Just keep smiling (and get a snorkel).

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CLIMATE CHANGE: A three-degree warmer world by 2050

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Bangladesh - the coming storm

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NASA's New 'Earth-Now' App: Your World, Unplugged

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Make Winter Spring and Spring Summer

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Why Venus and Zeitgeist Don't Have It Quite Right

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March heat records: meteorologist says, "Not the atmosphere I grew up with"

2012 Heat Records Demolish Cold Records 14-to-1
It has been a summer to remember. In winter.

Like a baseball player on steroids, our climate system is breaking records at an unnatural pace. As Weather Channel meteorologist Stu Ostro says of the current heat wave:

This remarkable warmth is associated with a bulging ridge of high pressure aloft that is exceptionally strong and long-lasting for March. While natural factors are contributing to this warm spell, given the nature of it and its context with other extreme weather events and patterns in recent years there is a high probability that global warming is having an influence upon its extremity.

This year, U.S. heat records have been outnumbering cold records by a stunning amount — 14-to-1 (19-to-1 in March) – as this chart from Steve Scolnik at Capital Climate makes clear:

Monthly ratio of daily high temperature to low temperature records set in the U.S. for every month of 2011 and the first half of March, seasonal ratio for summer and fall 2011, winter 2011-2012 to date, and annual ratio for 2011 and 2012, data from NOAA.

I like the statistical aggregation across the country, since it gets us beyond the oft-repeated point that you can’t pin any one record temperature on global warming. If you want to know the historical ratios, see the 2009 analysis, “Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across U.S.,” which shows that the average ratio for the 2000s was 2.04-to-1, a sharp increase from previous decades. Gerald Meehl, the lead author and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), explained, “If temperatures were not warming, the number of record daily highs and lows being set each year would be approximately even.”

As Jason Samenow of the Capital Weather Gang notes, this week saw truly “Historic record warm weather“:

Temperatures more characteristic of June have broken hundreds of temperature records over the last several days and promise to continue into the next week in many areas. In some places, temperatures have been an eye-popping 30-40 degrees above normal, nearing or surpassing the warmest temperatures ever recorded so early in the season.

Since Sunday, an amazing 943 new record highs have been broken or tied across the U.S. compared to just 9 record lows

More at the link2012 Heat Records Demolish Cold Records 14-to-1 It has been a summer to remember. In... more

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Freak Heat Wave Makes Obama ‘A Little Nervous’ About Global Warming

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Waxman Challenges Deficit Hawks To Become Climate Hawks

“The U.S. is facing a range of unprecedented fiscal and environmental challenges,” said Waxman. “We’ve got a confluence of events happening all at once.”

Speaking at the Center for American Progress Action Fund today, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) said he believes a price on carbon pollution can provide a unique solution to both the country’s fiscal challenges and its looming climate crisis, uniting climate and deficit hawks. His presentation put the challenge to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the House Republican budget chief, who has claimed that Congress has a “moral obligation” to reduce the country’s debt. With former Republican congressman Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), Waxman explained how tackling climate pollution can address fiscal, energy, environmental, and economic challenges simultaneously:

“A price on carbon can give you a substantial amount of money to help deal with our fiscal problems. A price on carbon can move us away from our reliance on fossil fuels which add to the greenhouse gas emissions in our climate, and by doing that we can become less dependent on oil. We would be able to be a challenger in the economic future of clean energy.”

“Do people want to cut Medicare and Medicaid?” Waxman asked. A rising price on carbon pollution, Waxman said, could raise over $1 trillion over several decades.

Gilchrest rebuked Ryan for ignoring the climate crisis in his depiction of the “defining moment“:

“Paul Ryan said this is a defining moment for future generations as far as a fiscal sense for reducing the deficit. This is a defining moment on the planet of seven billion people extracting resources faster than they can be replaced, becoming a geologic force by pumping more carbon dioxide in decades than nature is able to store in the earth over millions of years. The defining moment is realizing that the market, capitalism, our civilization is actually a subset of the earth’s ecosystem. We’re not independent of the living machine that gives us life on earth. We’re dependent on it.”

“The U.S. is facing a range of unprecedented fiscal and environmental challenges,” said Waxman. “We’ve got a confluence of events happening all at once.”

Waxman and Gilchrest recently co-authored a Washington Post op-ed with Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Sherry Boehlert (R-MD) calling for climate-change policies to be considered for deficit reduction.

By Brad Johnson on Mar 19, 2012 at 4:30 pm“The U.S. is facing a range of unprecedented fiscal and environmental... more

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Met Office: World warmed even more in last ten years than previously thought when Arctic data added

The world warmed more in the last ten years than previously thought, according to a... more

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It’s not about 2050, it’s about 2012. Global Warming is happening NOW

Over a century of climate science never predicted what is happening right now. Rapid... more

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