After a winter that’s seemed long and harsh in much of the country, there’s good reason to be excited about the earliest signs of spring. Here’s one more: It can help scientists track climate change. The popular National Public Radio program “Science Friday” apparently crashed the server at the National Phenology Network’s website this afternoon, by [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about my disenchantment with the plummeted quality of the global warming debate, because it distracts well-meaning people from action that could address the problem. And I promised I’d dedicate some of the posts on this blog to solutions. Here’s one I’ve recommitted to in my own life, thanks to a solution-oriented blog I’ve [...]
After a couple of days off from my usual Twitter-checking and blog reading, I returned to discover a global warming flap that’s been simmering for a week or two has come into full bloom. In case you haven’t heard, here’s a recap: Washington Post columnist George Will wrote about the follies of global warming believers, just after former vice president [...]
There’s a whole new world buried under more than two miles (4.5 km) of ice in East Antarctica — or at least a whole new mountain range. An international team of researchers, braving insanely bone-chilling conditions, has used twin-engine light aircraft, along with a network of seismic instruments that would span Texas, to map the mammoth [...]
Well, that was about the saddest news briefing I’ve ever seen. At a hastily-arranged press conference, three NASA officials spoke on NASA TV this morning about the failed launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a satellite that was supposed to fill in some missing links about the role of human-emitted carbon in climate change. [...]
