Entries from Element List tagged with 'climate'

The Tyranny of the Most Important Problem

Apple's iTunes has hundreds if not thousands of university lectures available for download from such top schools as MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Stanford. Last Spring, I came across a wonderful survey course called Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental...

Posted on January 31, 2010
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Mapping Around the Blogosphere

Google is not trying to hide the roads in Georgia - At least that's what Googlers say on Google's Lat Long Blog. Google Product Manager Dave Barth writes that Google simply isn't satisfied with the quality of the street...

Posted on August 13, 2008
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Heidi Cullen Profiled in NY Times

It's been a while since we last posted about Heidi Cullen's progress at The Weather Channel. (Yes, we know, it's been a while since we posted anything.) Regardless, we couldn't miss mentioning our famous Lamont-Doherty alumnus' interview with Claudia Dreifus...

Posted on July 31, 2007
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New York City Hurricane History

We just heard the CNN morning weatherman say that New York City has not been hit by a major hurricane since "maybe" 1410. If he had done a little research, he'd know that the New York City region was directly...

Posted on May 23, 2007
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One Mt. Pinatubo Every Two Years: Is This What It Would Take to Slow Global Warming?

After spending the last hundred years pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through automobiles and smokestacks, can we cool the atmosphere by pumping in sulphur dioxide? Mt. Pinatubo did it. But if we could do it, could we end global...

Posted on May 17, 2007
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IPCC Releases Part Three of the Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change

For those who haven't been keeping up, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been spending the last six years on the Fourth Assessment Report on climate change and just last week released the final report of the latest...

Posted on May 6, 2007
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Get Your Copy of the IPCC Working Group II Report

If you didn't get around to downloading the IPCC Working Group II Report "Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability" yet, here are some handy links for you. For a quick overview, see the video of the Brussels press conference, where the WGII...

Posted on April 9, 2007
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All Eyes on the Capitol as Gore Addresses Congress

Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that the big event of today will be former Vice President Al Gore's address to Congress on global warming. CNN will be broadcasting the event online. You can also find...

Posted on March 21, 2007
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Overheard in the Science Blogosphere: Climate Blogging

Kevrin Vranes, from NoSeNada and Prometheus blogs, was quoted in the NY Times today. Over at Prometheus, Kevin confirms a rumor about his political ambitions, previously posted here, writing that he is "angling for a position in the Gore White...

Posted on March 13, 2007
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Jeffrey Sachs Wants You to Join NextGenerationEarth

Nearly 100 companies and organizations ranging from Alcoa to the National Council of Churches last week endorsed what is being called a "bold post-Kyoto framework" for addressing climage change at the Global Roundtable on Climate Change, hosted by the Earth...

Posted on February 27, 2007
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Bloggers Respond to AEI's $10,000 Prize

Global Warming is Fake! [Wonkette] Observation-based science at its best: Dear American Enterprise Institute:Global warming is totally made-up and not real. We are burning a barrel of oil right now and it’s still freezing out! Have you been outside today?Please...

Posted on February 4, 2007
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IPCC Report and the Official U.S. Political Reactions

You're better off not listening to the PR spin about the latest IPCC report on GLOBAL WARMING, but I'm posting the links at the bottom here anyway. Just read the report. It's only about 10 pages of text with...

Posted on February 4, 2007
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Chris Mooney on Bush's State of the Union Address

Chris Mooney wrote one of the best reviews of President Bush's State of the Union speech from the climate change angle this week. Chris is author of The Republican War on Science and has a new book coming soon called...

Posted on January 26, 2007
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Ayles Ice Shelf Breaks Free in Arctic

The major news organizations are reporting that the Ayles Canadian ice shelf has broken free of Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, creating an island of floating ice that reaches up to 15 kilometers by five kilometers wide. Oil platforms, boats,...

Posted on December 29, 2006
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AMNH Earth Viz Video of Arctic Sea Ice Fluctuations

The American Museum of Natural History's Science Bulletins website has some amazing Flash movies covering various earth science topics, including one pictured here on the steady decrease in Arctic sea ice volume since 1979. The Earth Viz movie is based...

Posted on December 29, 2006
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