Atmospheric
- Global Warming Reversed 6,500 Years Of Cooling
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In geological history, 90,000 of every 100,000 years has been ice ages, and it has been 12,000 years since the last one. In a 'glass half full' optimistic take on emissions, the Industrial Age put a halt to a 6,500 year cooling trend and the ice ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2020 - 2:31pm
- Climate Change: Engineering Models Hope For Best Outcomes- And Any Chess Player Knows That's Terrible Strategy
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Did you read a paper saying we can prevent ocean damage under climate change scenarios by dumping iron into water to spur phytoplankton growth? Germans did, and were so convinced they began doing illegal live experiments. The model used a best-case scenar ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2020 - 10:39am
- Did Climate Change Kill Off 5 Species Of Humans?
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Once upon a time, there were six different species of early humans. That's not science fiction, and they all belonged to the genus Homo, but only we Homo sapiens have survived. What killed H. habilis, H. ergaster, H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis, and ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2020 - 12:37pm
- Chaos, Chaos Everywhere
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In 1996 (or thereabouts) the new Meteorology building was opened at the University of Reading. The inaugural lecture was given by Ed Lorenz, widely regarded as the father of modern Chaos Theory. In this biography from the National Academy of Sciences, Edwa ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 27 2020 - 10:26am
- The Naturalistic Fallacy That Holds Back Some In The West From Progress Keeps India From Lowering Emissions Too
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A billion people still use wood for cooking and heating- and western countries are to blame. In the last decade, centralized energy production for developing countries was derailed unless they used solar or wind- neither of which are viable on their own. T ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2020 - 4:01am
- Cooking With Wood Increases Pollution: Real Pollution, Not The PM2.5 Virtual Kind
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In 2013, the U.S. government told the World Bank they would not help fund centralized energy in developing nations unless it used their pet projects, wind and solar. Which developing nations could not use much less afford. We set back sanitation and hygien ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2020 - 11:33am