From Science: Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

May

7

2010

Over at Science There’s a letter with a veritable laundry list of signers regarding the recent (and not so recent) unconscionable attack on climate science by the media, politicians, and others. It’s very much worth the time it takes to read. We also call for an end to McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution against our ...
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climate change

Just went I thought you couldn’t sink any lower, Cuccinelli

May

5

2010

First, there was Cuccinelli and his anti-gay dickery. Then he jumped on to the healthcare reform lawsuit band wagon. Then he let us all in on his nipple phobia. Oh Ken Cuccinelli, is there no nuttery you will not force me to look at an say, “…seriously?” And now he’s after a climate change scientist. ...
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climate change

More on rocks as carbon traps

Jan

5

2010

Conveniently enough, there’s a Scientific American article about the use of basalt as a CO2 sink, which was posted yesterday. I suppose that using basalt for its CO2 sponging abilities isn’t a bad second option; if nothing else, there’s a lot more basalt in the world than there is easily available ultramafic rocks. Basalt is ...
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climate change

We’re not excited about Peridotite?

Jan

4

2010

Io9 did a post yesterday about peridotite and its ability to soak up carbon dioxide, and mentioned in the first paragraph that no one’s talking about it. And another article that says we’re not excited about it. I imagine a lot of people haven’t even heard of peridotite, or don’t know what ultramafic rocks are, ...
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climate change

Another bit on climate-gate.

Dec

13

2009

Mike Littwin did a lovely opinion piece in the Denver Post about it today. I don’t often read the local paper (unless they inexplicably have cattle mutilations as the front page story, as if the health care debate and even Tiger Woods had ceased to exist), and I hear a lot from my mother about ...
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climate change · colorado

A bouquet of Jellyfish and Algae

Nov

19

2009

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world Harmful Algal Blooms – HABs So, Japan is being invaded by swarms of jellyfish, and we’re being inundated with stinking, toxin oozing slime of the variety that doesn’t carry firearms to townhall meetings. The simple fact sheet on the algae doesn’t speculate as to cause, but the jellyfish are ...
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biology · climate change