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Leading climate scientists released a letter to Secretary Clinton today, urging the State Department to conduct a serious review of the climate change impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline. The State Department is currently accepting comments on what environmental considerations should be included in the supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) required for the northern leg of [...]
Dr. Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, was interviewed on the PBS Newshour, July 2. He was asked: Are the wildfires worse this year than usual? And the dryness, how unusual is that? Trenberth gives a very concise scientific overview of the dynamics of current extreme weather conditions [...]
In a letter to the WSJ, 38 climate science experts call down Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper for publishing an op-ed (“No Need to Panic About Global Warming”) “by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields,” the climate scientists’ letter says, “most of these authors have no expertise in climate science. The [...]
On September 7 we tuned in to a press teleconference in which scientists Richard Somerville, Kevin Trenberth, Gerald Meehl, and Jeff Masters talked about the link between climate change and extreme weather events with reporters from the New York Times, ABC and NBC News, USA Today, and the online publications Greenwire and Energy Daily. […]
“Adding this on top of conventional fossil fuels will leave our children and grandchildren a climate system with consequences that are out of their control,” says the letter to the President from James Hansen and 19 other scientists. “It makes no sense to build a pipeline system that would practically guarantee extensive exploitation of this [...]
In Climategate: What Really Happened? Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones magazine provides a detailed and well-referenced lookback at How climate science became the target of the best-funded, best-organized smear campaign by the wealthiest industry that the Earth has ever known. […]
The U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a hearing featuring testimony from several prominent climate scientists, including IPCC Working Group II co-chair Christopher Field, Richard Somerville, John Christy, Roger Pielke Sr., Francis Zwiers, and others. The collision between climate science and the dismal political realities of the nation’s capital continues. Not to [...]
“Political philosophy has a legitimate role in policy debates, but not in the underlying climate science,” a group of scientists, including seven members of the National Academy of Sciences, has written to all members of the U.S. Congress at the start of the 2011 session. “The assertions of climate deniers should not be given scientific weight [...]
After a spike in late 2009 propelled by the Copenhagen climate conference, mainstream media coverage of climate change dropped off steeply. One dimension of the issue, the intersection of climate change impacts and national security, has been increasingly accentuated in an attempt to give the issue greater immediacy. This perspective highlights the potential for [...]
In a fine remembrance of his friend Stephen Schneider, Paul Ehrlich notes how he and Schneider had many discussions of the responsibilities of public scientists. They agreed: Being a scientist does not relieve one of the obligations of a citizen to speak out, Ehrlich says. In my experience, no scientist felt that obligation [...]