While I’m at it, another global drought report (I’m really just catching up on some news stories I set aside over the last week to read). This time Chile: Farmers in small towns in south-central Chile have lost crops and livestock in the drought blamed on the weather phenomenon La Nina. Rainfall records show the …
While we’ve been seeing news of extraordinary snows in China, folks in the north are in the grip of what sounds like serious drought: The drought has led to loss of arable land, livestock and drinking water, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, the official Xinhua News Agency said late Sunday. …
Let us assume, for purpose of argument, that you are deeply concerned about the potential for humans’ impact on climate, but that you have some uncertainties about the reliability of the science that lies at the foundation of that concern. Today, you note, scientists tell us the planet is warming. But did they not argue …
First Burmese pythons, now this: At the Aups market, the black truffle’s price has more than doubled over the past five years, to about €850 per kilo ($560 a pound). Farmers say production is down by 50-75 percent this winter season and they blame global warming, warning that if thermometers keep rising — as many …
Via Stoat, I see a nice story in USA Today about an interesting new analysis by some clever folk* on the history of the old “global cooling” canard: The supposed “global cooling” consensus among scientists in the 1970s — frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can’t make up their minds — is …
From Danger Room: “Weather modification was used successfully in Viet Nam to (among other things) hinder and impede the movement of personnel and material from North Viet Nam to South Viet Nam,” notes a Naval Air Warfare Weapons Division – China Lake research proposal, released last month through the Freedom of Information Act. But “since …
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Environment America is raising serious and important questions about the elephant in the room – the impact of global warming no one wants to talk about: National trends from recent seasons suggest that a home field advantage for cold weather teams over their warm weather rivals may truly exist. Environment America pointed to the National …
Fingerprinting global warming.
On the current status of our snowpack: Much of New Mexico is just like the forecasters said we should expect it to be: dry. With La Niña’s cool Pacific waters pushing storms away from us this year, Albuquerque and most points to the south and east have been drier than average since Oct. 1. The …
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On the city of Albuquerque’s greenhouse gas reduction claims (adwalled): It is a claim every Albuquerque resident who cares about global warming could be proud of: Since 1990, city residents have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent. It is also untrue. See also ethanol vehicles.