Atmospheric

Lightning, Not Utilities, Are Major Cause Of California Fires

California is primarily a desert and with no way to generate enough of its own electricity, the state must run power lines from other states through dry areas to keep a growing population in air conditioning. When wildfires occur the state routinely blames ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2022 - 12:04pm

Invisible Air Pollution Can't Cause Obesity, But Epidemiologists Will Link It Anyway

The United States has some of the cleanest air in the world, at least when it comes to actual dangerous smog, PM 10- particulate matter 10 microns in size. It is a clear killer, at one point leading to the deaths of over 10,000 in London during a weather a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 17 2022 - 1:48pm

Short Extreme Rainfall Events Are More Common- Climate Change Implicated

If you have ever visited or Florida or any place with rainfall extremes at sub-hourly timescales- short storms- residents joke that if you don't like their weather, wait five minutes and it will change. A new analysis says those changes may be happeni ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2022 - 8:10pm

Less Air Pollution Has Meant More Fertilizer In Farming

You wouldn't know it from listening to epidemiologists inside EPA or local weather personalities, but American air quality is better than it's been in 150 years. So clean they had to define "clean" down and start touting small micron pa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 11 2023 - 5:02am

Atmospheric Rivers Are A New Name For Old Events- And They've Long Had Implications For Arctic Ice

In 1994, the term “atmospheric river” appeared in a paper to describe narrow amounts of atmospheric water vapor across the mid-latitudes but now a week doesn't go by without a weather forecaster on the local news claiming it is hitting their viewers. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2023 - 6:31am

Is A Hamburger Really Worse For Pollution Than A Diesel Truck?

In "Science Left Behind", the oft-regurgitated 'it takes a gallon of gas to make a pound of beef' nonsensical metric is revealed for what it always was; a claim put into a book that was derived from an advocacy press release in the 1980 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2023 - 9:56pm

The Racism Of Virtual Pollution

When smog was prevalent, it was easy to see. Particulate matter 10 microns in size hover in the air, the famous London Fog was not natural moisture, it was PM 10 pollution. In one event, nature combined with smog in London to kill 12,000 people. After that ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 28 2023 - 8:44am

Climate Doomism Is Bad Storytelling

When news about the climate is published, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, frightening headlines like “final warning” or “now or never” are often the norm. Some activists call this approach “climate doomism”, and are qui ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 28 2023 - 5:12pm

Forget Oil, Says James Hansen, Cleaner Coal Emissions Will Cure Global Warming

An ongoing rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels might be kept below harmful levels if emissions from coal are phased out within the next few decades, say researchers. They say that less plentiful oil and gas should be used spari ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2023 - 9:27am

How One 'Warm Ice Age' Permanently Changed Climate Cycles

In recent geological history, 90,000 of every 100,000 years have been ice ages. It's been 12,000 years since the last one so we may be due. Or not. Climate science has a few rules but a lot of exceptions and 700,000 years ago a big exception occurred. ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2023 - 8:43am