Richard Alley on Greenland Part 1
Ok, let me apologize for the sound of my questions – I’m getting a second lavalier so that won’t happen again. That plus altitude induced hoarseness. I was interviewing Richard Alley at a conference in...
View ArticleKevin Trenberth and Jennifer Francis on Climate, Ice, and Weather Whiplash
Latest piece for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media. Last month I covered the emerging science linking arctic ice loss to changes in the jetstream, and the new normal “Weather Whiplash” we...
View ArticleThe Ocean is the Dog. Atmospheric Temperature is the Tail.
At the recent Chapman Conference in Granby, Colorado, Skeptical Science’s John Cook advised the audience of scientists, communicators, and scientist-communicators, that the best way to fight “sticky”...
View ArticleDark Snow: Day One
Detroit Metro Airport, June 20: It’s happening. I’ll be in transit over the next 20 hours or so. We are still in fundraising mode btw. Flight schedule is still in flux, and every donation means more...
View ArticleDark Snow has Landed
SISIMIUT, Greenland – What started as an improbable vision months ago, struggled through a protracted and difficult fundraising process, and seemed to many a reach too far, has now touched down on the...
View ArticleDark Snow Settles in to Greenland Base
The Dark Snow project Science and media team has set up shop in a small cabin on the outskirts of Sisimiut, on the coast of Greenland. Scientists Jason Box and Marek Stibal, along with myself, will...
View ArticleEli Lehrer in Weekly Standard. Time for GOP to Wake Up.
If Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard is publishing acknowledgements of climate science – how much longer can mainstream Republicans pretend to go along with the Tea Party denialist crazies? Former...
View ArticleSisimiut Time Lapse
After bitter cold yesterday, we awoke to bright sunshine and mild breezes. I decided to give the Canon 4ti a test with a time-lapse project, looking west from a soft grassy hump right in front of the...
View ArticleCuriosity
New video of Dr. Marek Stibal talking about his work, and taking samples on the ice sheet on June 25. This is an important new video by Sara Penrhyn Jones, about a little known emerging area of...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Creeping Climate Crackup. Don’t Blame Us. It’s Al Gore’s Fault.
I’ve spent some time this past week near the Ilulissat Glacier, the world’s fastest moving ice stream, and quite likely the source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. The Titanic, of course, made...
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