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Figure 2: Time series for the World Ocean of ocean heat content (1022 J) for the 0-2000m (red) and 700-2000m (black) layers based on running pentadal (five-year) analyses. Reference period is 1955-2006. Each pentadal estimate is plotted at the midpoint of the 5-year period. The vertic...
In terms of climate impact, methane emissions from the natural gas industry largely, if not totally, offset reductions in carbon dioxide from using natural gas instead of coal, gasoline, diesel or heating oils. More methane is leaking than regulators estimate, and pound-for-pound, eac...
My AGU talk on tackling climate myths in a free online course Posted on 20 December 2014 by John Cook This post is based on an invited presentation I gave at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The talk was titled Applying Agnotology Based Learning in a ...
2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #1B Things I thought were obvious! 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #1A Another year and glaciers are another metre thinner Time is running out on climate denial Andy Skuce's AGU Fall Meeting 2014 poster presentation 2014 SkS Weekly Digest #52 2014 SkS Weekly ...
Not least of which is the very headquarters of Christmastime, the North Pole, where ice sheets are melting at such a rapid clip Santa’s workshop has actually drifted slightly to the south . In an article published on Christmas Eve 2012 titled ” The Polar Express ,” the New Yorker ( cl...
Mercury Rising: 2014 Likely to Surpass 2010 as Warmest Year on Record Posted on 27 November 2014 by Rob Painting The monthly global analysis for October has been released at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and it reveals that global surface temperature for October 2014 is ...
With every passing year it becomes increasingly clear that climate change is not just an environmental issue. It’s damaging to public health. It’s a drag on the economy. And, more and more, it’s become the foundation for legal battles. As the far-reaching impacts of climate change are...
Our economy can’t take the President’s ideological War on Coal that will increase the squeeze on middle-class families and struggling miners. This unrealistic plan, that the President would dump on his successor, would ensure higher utility rates and far fewer jobs. The President said...
