…on Extreme Weather deserves your full attention. I told him he should do this with a drummer; his rhythm is superb and very exciting. Paul Beckwith is a full-time PhD student researching abrupt climate change in the Geography Department at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He is also a part-time professor teaching climatology/meteorology. He […]
When you have a climate-change discussion with someone who either hasn’t been paying attention, or who’s swallowed the corporate media’s denialist message, you’re very likely to hear these two arguments: “It’s all part of a natural cycle.” — the argument that the Global Weirding we’re now experiencing is just a manifestation of natural variability. But […]
It’s been almost two centuries since Svante Arrhenius discovered the greenhouse effect, and more than fifty years since Arctic ice melt caused by increased atmospheric CO2 was predicted in a 1953 edition of Popular Mechanics. Over time, climatologists have been steadily developing analytical and predictive tools of ever-greater precision and sophistication, as evidenced by their […]