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- UMass Amherst geoscientists reconstruct ‘eye-opening’ 900-year Northeast climate record Thu, 10 Jan 19, 5:00pmJust a single study. Just a single location. Just a single technique. Importance TBD~ctm From EurekAlert! Link to study and excerpts below press release. Geoscientists at UMass Amherst have reconstructed the longest...
- “Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely”… But “marine ice-cliff instability” is “just common sense” Sun, 6 Jan 19, 4:24amGuest AEUHHH???? by David Middleton A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely But experts warn that our overall picture of sea-level rise looks far scarier today than it did even five years ago...
- Research sheds new light on what drove last, long-term global climate shift University of Exeter Mon, 31 Dec 18, 9:00amPublic Release: 19-Dec-2018 The quest to discover what drove the last, long-term global climate shift on Earth, which took place around a million years ago, has taken a new, revealing twist...
- Concord and discord among Northern Hemisphere paleotemperature reconstructions from tree rings Thu, 20 Dec 18, 5:00pmFrom Science Direct Scott St. George Jan Esper Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany Received 3...
- Southwest forest trees will grow much slower in the 21st century Thu, 20 Dec 18, 1:00amFrom Eurekalert Public Release: 18-Dec-2018 Even forest trees growing in average conditions may decline in productivity as much as 75 percent University of Arizona A treasure trove of data about tree growth in the US West...
- How complexity science can quickly detect climate record anomalies Santa Fe Institute Sun, 16 Dec 18, 9:00amFrom Eurekalert Public Release: 14-Dec-2018 The history of our climate is written in ice. Reading it is a matter of deciphering the complex signals pulled from tens of thousands of years of accumulated isotopes frozen miles...
- Permian Extinction… Because Climate Change! Sat, 8 Dec 18, 1:40amGuest eye roll by David Middleton From Real Clear Science… The Two Great Killers of ‘The Great Dying’ By Ross Pomeroy – RCP Staff The Siberian Traps in northern Russia are picturesque...
- “Scientists” Determine That the Worst Year in Human History Was… 536 AD. Sun, 18 Nov 18, 4:33amGuest post by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science! in America: Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ By Ann Gibbons Nov...
- A massive crater hides beneath Greenland’s ice Sat, 17 Nov 18, 3:00pmElevating this from a mention in my previous Newsworthy Items post. From ScienceNews Whether the impact is related to a period of cooling called the Younger Dryas is unknown By Carolyn Gramling 2:00pm, November 14, 2018 There’s...
- Yet another study illustrates that the Medieval Warming Period was not regional, but global Sun, 4 Nov 18, 3:35amMichael Mann and his team of data manglers like-minded scientists like to tell us the Medieval Warming Period was just a “regional” event rather than global, because if it was global, that destroys their narrative...
- Back to the Cretaceous! Because… CLIMATE CHANGE! Wed, 31 Oct 18, 5:58amGuest AEUHHH??? by David Middleton We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal Peter Forbes is a science writer whose work has appeared in New Scientist, The Guardian, The Times, Scientific American and New...
- You can always tell a Mann, but you can’t tell him much – why tree ring data (and climatic conclusions from it) sucks Thu, 25 Oct 18, 11:55pmFrom the “we only select wood for hockey stick construction” department. Steve McIntyre comes back into the fray with a scathing review of just how crappy the tree ring proxies used by Michael Mann were (and still...
- “Climate change endangers dozens of World Heritage sites” – Leaning Tower of Pizza Edition Sun, 21 Oct 18, 6:13amGuest sciencey schist by David Middleton Yes… I know it’s Pisa, not Pizza… But I’m trying a low-carb diet and I really miss pizza, Among the 1,000+ UNESCO World Heritage sites that are about to be...
- CNN: “Climate change endangers dozens of World Heritage sites”… Unmitigated horst schist Sat, 20 Oct 18, 7:44amGuest slam dunk by David Middleton For those with sensitive ears (or eyes): Climate change endangers dozens of World Heritage sites By Sandee LaMotte, CNN October 16, 2018 (CNN)Pull out your passport and pack your...
- Study: climate was more variable during the last inter-glacial period Sat, 13 Oct 18, 2:00amDoes climate vary more from century to century when it is warmer? Century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared to the current...