Warmest U.S. areas: Texas to the Southeast and along Eastern SeaboardAssociated Press, 14 March 2008WASHINGTON -- Winter storms and snow notwithstanding, this winter was still warmer than average worldwide, the government reported Thursday.The global

By Paul Foy Associated Press Writer, The Boston Globe, March 28, 2008 SALT LAKE CITY—Around the same time the American West started heating up five years ago, Colorado started losing its lodgepole pine forests to a beetle infestation."The

I started this blog partly to record my observations and thoughts about climate change. There are other places better at the science.Today,climate change seems a lot more accurate than global warming, but that's because my first spring daffodils had

Time Magazine, 27 March 2008John Lee / Aurora Select for TIMEA tiny sliver of transitional rain forest is surrounded by hectares of soybean fields in the Mato Grosso state, Brazil.From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down

BLOGGER'S NOTE: What does an article about anomalies in commodity hedge prices have to do with the psychology of climate change? I could be wrong (and I often am), but if the price of a hedge on its date of expiration is higher than the cash price of

BLOGGER'S NOTE: I include this somewhat dated material because it is important to remind those who might be swayed by flat-earthers who say that it is getting colder down south on Antarctica."Study finds 'classic global warming' over Antarctica," Chicago

book review on amazon.com by Stephen A. Haines, Ottawa, CanadaOnce, climate was seen like a sedate matron, ambling along at a measured pace. According to Fred Pearce, the climate is more like a drunk, lurching from one place to another in sporadic, unpredictable

FoxNews.com, March 24, 2008 Ocean wave heights along the U.S. East Coast have progressively increased during the summer months — when hurricanes are most important to wave generation, a new study shows. The study, detailed in a recent

BLOGGER'S NOTE: This post is not exactly related to global warming, as such, but is still interesting.by Andrea Thompson, LiveScience Staff Writer, 20 March 2008Atmospheric waves that ripple through clouds could spin up tornadoes when a thunderstorm

CBS, March 27, 2008Self-avowed "P.R. agent for the planet" Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man -- among them, Vice President Dick Cheney -- are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really

by Catherine BrahicNewScientist, 03 January 2008Energy flowing from the equator up towards the North Pole may partly explain the rapid warming of the Arctic, say researchers. It is well documented

by Jim GilesNewScientist, 24 March 2008Rice is arguably the world's most important food source and helps feed about half the globe's people. But yields in many areas will drop as the globe warms in future years, a review of studies on rice and climate

by Fred PearceFrom NewScientist, March 22, 2008CLIMATE sceptics are right. Temperature increases do precede rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide - the opposite of what you would expect if changes in CO2 levels were really driving climate change. That's

This post is for those interested in the research on polar vortices and oscillations.The abstract and introduction of this paper are a short primer:http://ao.atmos.colostate.edu/ThompsonPapers/Limpasuvan_etal_JGR2005.pdfMore articles related to this

I was at a science fiction convention this weekend, and at one point there was a discussion between me and someone else about science fiction plots, and the other person mused that we would see more global warming plots in sf books. We have seen some

BLOGGER'S NOTE: I am updating this post because I found a more lucid explanation on the NewScientist site, which discusses the importance of wave action on the ice shelf.Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by a thread'by Catherine Brahic, 25 March 2008, NewScientist

Link to article: http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/20080324_Rampant.pdf)BLOGGER'S NOTE: The text below is from Dr. Hansen's latest communique.Predictably, as scientific evidence clarifies that the dangerous level of atmospheric CO2 is at hand,

BLOGGER'S NOTE: The post and 20 comments below were lifted from the Climate Progress blog. This post ends with a Climate Progress exclusive: James Hansen’s response to the NYT’s Andy Revkin piece commenting on Hansen’s (draft) article on why we