climate

If you’ve passed through a pine forest west of the Continental Divide you’ve no doubt seen the devastation the pine beetle has wrought. In British Columbia the government went all out in its fight against the scourge, but has created another through salvage logging. In an effort to stop the… Read the rest

In the latest marine life misfortune, dozens of starving sea lion pups are washing ashore in southern California, which has scientists speculating the possibility of El Niño climate conditions.
Most of the pups are under 6 months of age and are so emaciated that they’ve begun digesting their blubber and… Read the rest

What with organizers having to truck in snow to Cypress Mountain in Vancouver, British Columbia for this year’s Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has expressed concern for global warming. IOC President Jacques Rogge said:

“Global warming is definitely a factor that must be taken into account in Olympic preparations.”… Read the rest

While recent surveys have shown that public concern over global warming has dropped significantly, a new study shows that a majority of Americans — regardless of political affiliation — support federal climate and energy policy.
The results of the survey, which were just released by Yale and George Mason Universities,… Read the rest

Regardless of ClimateGate, and more recently, the UN’s mistake regarding the melting rate of the Himalayan Glaciers, NASA scientists have confirmed that the earth is — indeed — warming.
The decade that ended with 2009 was the warmest on record, with 2009 being the second hottest year since modern temperature… Read the rest

The C.I.A. and the nation’s top environmental scientists are now working together to use federal government intelligence tools to track environmental change. They hope to use the tools, which include spy satellites and other top-secret sensors, to learn more about climate trends from clouds, deserts and other natural phenomena.
In… Read the rest

Geoengineering is what human beings would be doing if we purposely tweaked the earth’s climate in order to stave off the effects of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions. The National Academy of Sciences defines it as the “large-scale engineering of our environment in order to combat or counteract the… Read the rest

Jon Bowermaster, an expedition sea kayaker and Wend … Read the restcontributor (vol. 4, #1) who’s paddled about the globe as part of his OCEANS 8 project, is not stoked on the outcome of the climate talks in Copenhagen.
Blogging in the wake of calving glaciers in the Antarctic Sea, Bowermaster has this

As another year comes to a close, many of us start to think about what the next one will be like… And this is exactly what the U.K. Met Office, a leader in public weather services, has been doing. Their prediction for 2010 is that it will be the hottest… Read the rest