By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentTROLL STATION, Antarctica, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A deep freeze holding 90 percent of the world's ice, Antarctica is one of the biggest puzzles in debate on global warming with risks that any thaw could raise sea

Global Temperature Anomalies: 2007 In 2007, a moderately strong La Niña event put a chill on the eastern Pacific Ocean, and the Sun was near the low spot in its 11-year cycle of variability. Nevertheless, global average surface temperature in 2007

I just did an interview with CNN (Miles O’Brien) re “censoring science”. The point I emphasized is that overreaching by the Executive Branch, trying to make government science submit to political command and control, is a threat to our democracy, and,

By Doug Struck Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, January 21, 2008; Page A06 You can flip off your widescreen TV with the remote control. Power down your computer to standby. Unplug your cellphone from its charger. But as you leave the room, the

Marc Kaufman and Eric RignotWashington Post Staff Writer and NASA Scientist, respectivelyMonday, January 14, 2008; 12:00 PMWashington Post staff writer Marc Kaufman will be online at Noon ET on Monday, Jan. 14 to discuss the shrinking of the Antarctic

The pdf file with the GISS results data is available at this link:http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20080114_GISTEMP.pdfLet me summarize it this way: 2007 was very hot, and it would have been hotter had it not been for the effects of the La Nina/Southern

14 Jan 2008, 1952 hrs IST,AFPPARIS: Global warming has caused annual ice loss from the Antarctic ice sheet to surge by 75 per cent in a decade, according to the most detailed survey ever made of the white continent's coastal glaciers.In 2006, accelerating

I spent the weekend at Rustycon, which is a small local science fiction convention in the Seattle area. I moderated two panels on global warming. Unlike the larger conventions, the panelists were generally bright and well known fans, but not experts

by Lee Shearer (lee.shearer@onlineathens.com)Story updated at 11:11 p.m., on Sunday, January 13, 2008A University of Georgia scientist's research has revealed a dramatic rise in the rate of melt in the vast ice sheet of Greenland -- 60 percent higher

Please go to this site and download the free pdf book that Dr. Bob Altemeyer (a Canadian psychology professor) has written. The book is so well written that it is a page turner, and explains how it has been possible for the closed-minded, amoral authoritarians

When global-warming experts want to come in out of the cold, they turn to one man BY JOEL WARNERFrom the Boise Weekly, December 12, 2007In the middle of a table in Konrad Steffen's office at the University of Colorado in Boulder sits a strikingly

I don't often get sent books to review - I do recommend books that I like on my own writing site, and Glen Hiemstra and I both occasionally recommend books on Glen's Futurist.com site (and I will cross-post this there in the future with comments on a

Well, two days ago, I predicted the weird weather would continue this year. Here, it's cold and wintry, and kind of normal. But they've had tornadoes in the Midwest this morning. This is not a normal winter event, and it ties in really well with the

sWell, in 2007,I started taking the bus at least a few days a weekWe changed out the washer and dryer for energy star appliancesWe changed out half of the windows for more efficient onesWhen we replaced some carpet, we used green carpetWe tried out green

There is a 124-page PDF file available at the following link:http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071105_ageofconsequences.pdfThe short quote below is from the report. Anyone who has paid attention and looked at the old IPCC graphs from 2004 must have

By ANDREW C. REVKIN New York Times, online edition, Published: January 8, 2008 The ancient frozen dome cloaking Greenland is so vast that pilots have crashed into what they thought was a cloud bank spanning the horizon. Flying over it,