Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and … Continue reading →
Last week, someone on a mailing list I belong to suggested that there might be a visible spike in CO2 concentration, and wondered whether it was due to emissions from the war against Iran. It was based on daily data … Continue reading →
Last month was the hottest March on record for CONUS (the CONtinental U.S., a.k.a. the “lower 48 states”), beating the previous record for monthly average temperature (from back in 2012), but only by 0.45°F. Where in the U.S. was the … Continue reading →
In the western U.S. this winter, temperature was far above normal; the region has been through its hottest winter on record, by a large margin. Here is the winter average temperature anomaly for a large area in the west which … Continue reading →
Saturday my wife and I saw the movie Project Hail Mary, the story of unwilling astronaut Ryland Grace (portrayed by Ryan Gosling) and his mission to save us from a plague which threatens the source of life on Earth: the … Continue reading →
Remember the Climate Working Group organized the the Dept. of Energy? The group which produced a report disputing the danger of climate change in general and CO2 specifically? It seems they didn’t just gather together and take an objective look … Continue reading →
For Americans living in the eastern half of the country, this winter seemed quite cold, and for some states winter temperature was indeed colder than average (average defined by the period from 1895 to the present). Those states are shaded … Continue reading →
My paper with Stefan Rahmstorf showing that global warming has accelerated was published in Geophysical Research Letters today. The main result is that global warming is NOT proceeding at the same old rate it has been since 1975. It’s going … Continue reading →
Now that 2025 is complete, several organizations have published year-end results for an important measure of climate change: the Global Mean Surface Temperature anomaly. These include NASA (the Goddard Institute for Space Studies), HadCRU (the Hadley Centre/Climate Research Unit in … Continue reading →
Three things stand out about Donald Trump’s hour-long speech at the United Nations. First, he hurled a lot of insults, including insulting the United Nations, all while telling representatives of most of the world’s nations that their countries were on … Continue reading →
