Tag Archives: climate
Climate Skeptics vs Children: Heartland Institute Says Bet on the Kids
Last week, someone posing as a Heartland Institute board member persuaded a staff member to send him a “new email” board package, which he then released to environmental activist websites. The package contained descriptions of Heartland’s intention to develop curriculum for K-12 children that would recast current teachings on global warming as...
Big Business is Finally Taking Climate Seriously
Along with increased environmental awareness, cold, hard facts have led many to stop questioning climate change and environmental degradation. It is not just remote areas of the world that are beginning to feel the impact of climate change. Areas of the Western World are seeing droughts, wild weather, and other phenomena that are associated with...
Dramatic drop in background radiation just before radioactive cloud detected in Australia
This spike in radiation was detected on the 8th January 2012, on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. The wind direction was NNE at 22degrees. Geiger Counter Alarm starting going off at around 6.30 pm. Raised radiation levels lasted until around 9.45 pm.
The Gammascout Geiger Counter alert alarm was set to go off at .50 uS/Hr, and to record data every 10...
Humans and Climate Contributed to Extinctions of Large Ice Age Mammals, New Study Finds
The genetic history of six large herbivores — the woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, wild horse, reindeer, bison, and musk ox — has shown that both climate change and humans were responsible for the extinction or near extinction of large mammal populations within the last 10,000 years. The study, which is the first to use genetic, archeological,...
Global Warming Skepticism Crumbling
During much of the last decade, LLNL researcher and University of California Physics professor Richard Muller has been something of a darling too the right-wing GW deniers. In December 2003 Muller published a column in the MIT’s Technology Review, announcing support for the contentions of notorious climate change skeptics Steve McIntyre and Ross...
Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real
WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.
The study of the world’s surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected...
Calera founder turns to deep water desalination
Brent Constantz, the founder and former CEO of Calera — a startup that turns carbon dioxide into cement — is having a second act in clean water. Constantz stepped down from the Board of Directors of Calera in February, and left the CEO position last year (he’s also a Stanford professor and serial entrepreneur) and Constantz tells me in an interview...
How Global Temperatures Predictions Compare to What Happened (Skeptics Off Target)
Skeptical Science has another great post up this week that I just have to repost in full (which includes some pretty wicked graphics). It takes a look at how various climate scientists’ predictions ended up comparing to what we’ve actually seen. As you’ll be able to see, several skeptics basically failed, while leading scientists such as Dr. James...
Indonesia Earthquake: Powerful Temblor Strikes Off Popular Resort Island Of Bali
BALI, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia’s popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, sending people fleeing from their homes and hotels in panic. No tsunami alert was issued, and there were no immediate reports of injuries.
Some roofs collapsed, and witnesses told local radio and television stations they saw cracks in the...
WeatherBill morphs brand to focus on climate
Startup WeatherBill has built a business around offering farmers financial protection against weather, but the underlying goal of the company has always been to help companies adapt to a changing climate, the company’s CEO and Co-founder David Friedberg told me. That’s why on Tuesday WeatherBill launched a rebranding effort, and is now going as...
