Identity and Denialism

One of the issues I spend the most time on is trying to understand just why people deny the findings of science and adhere to a falsifiable ...

Why Care About Global Warming? “No Man Is An Island”

Global warming has been proceeding for more than a century as the result of humanity's use of fossil fuels to provide the energy that p...

Models and Climate Variability

One of the most common, and least credible, complaints I hear from deniers is that climate change is not real because the models all fail. T...

Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Maximum

It has been widely reported the Arctic sea ice extent this year was not only a record low for a maximum extent , but it also came very early...

Beijing to Close All Coal-Fired Power Plants

Some times I see an article that makes me go 'Whoa!' This was one of them . Beijing, the capital of China, is closing the last four ...

Future of California Water Looks Bleak

As you have probably heard, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains this winter is running at merely 19% of the long-term average . Not ...

Donner Pass

I thought I would pass this on to anyone that might be interested. It's a picture of Donner Pass, taken on January 31, 2015. Donner Pas...

Disappearing Fog Another Factor in California

As we all know, California is having a epic drought while also experiencing historically high temperatures. The high temperatures are compou...

February 2015 Was Second Warmest Ever Recorded

The warming trend continues. NOAA released it's State of the Climate report for February and announced February 2015 was the second war...

Florida Threatened by That Which Cannot Be Mentioned

Florida Governor Rick Scott is such a intense science-denier that he has instructed government employees they are not permitted to use the ...

Question to Deniers: Why Aren't You as Smart as a Six-Year Old?

Deniers love to use that ridiculous line - I'm not a scientist..., and then they proceed to demonstrate what a jackass they are by claim...

Shameless Self Plug - That Which Maddens and Torments

One of the many projects I have been involved with over the last nine months is my first fiction novel. I have published two nonfiction book...

CO2 Level Hits Record High

The Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UC San Diego takes daily measurements of the atmospheric CO2 levels on Maua Loa, HI. This is the ol...

Guest Submission: Making A Scam Work

A Guest submission for Dialogues on Global Warming RE: Making a scam work; Considering the clever subterfuge being employed by man-made cli...

Texas Water Wars

I live in Mason County, far in the western part of the Llano Uplift of the Edwards Plateau. Austin and San Antonio are two hours away. There...

More Evidence California Drought Is Manmade

Researchers at Stanford University published a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluding warming caused by...

Oceans Warming Faster Than Believed

Quantifying underestimates of long-term upper-ocean warming , by Paul J. Durack, Peter J. Gleckler, Felix W. Landerer and Karl E. Taylor an...

No Need To Worry About Hydrates

Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 and there are vast amounts of methane (trillions of cubic feet of gas) locked up under...

Guest Submission: Fictitious Government Plot

Peter Johnson The ways that deniers exploit any minor anomaly by using cherry picked data, is truly insidious, but I think we need to also...

Send Inhofe a Snowball!

The organization Environmental action will be hand delivering a snowball to Senator Inhofe for every person that signs their pledge. I signe...

Why Care about Global Warming? Droughts, Poor Harvests, and Social Upheaval

  In both industrialized countries and developing countries there may be those who ask “ why should we care about global warming ?”   After...