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Tingley and Huybers: Varve Compaction
Specialist literature on varves e.g. Besonen et al 2008 – coauthor Raymond Bradley -(which is cited by Tingley and Huybers) make the obvious observation that varves are compacted within a core. Besonen et al 2008 allow for compaction by estimating annual mass accumulation as a more appropriate measurement of varve “thickness”, rather than uncompacted varve [...]
New Light on Svalbard
In 1997, the 121 m Lomonosovfonna ice core was drilled in Svalbard. As of mid-2009, when Hu McCulloch and I wrote CA posts on this core, nothing had been published on O18 values prior to AD1400 nor had any Lomonosovfonna data been archived, even for the post-1400 period. Both Hu McCulloch and I, in separate [...]
DeSmog's Kevin Grandia Featured in Rolling Stone's Fossil Fuel Resistance Edition
Kevin Grandia, DeSmog's former Managing Editor and current senior consultant, is featured in this month's Rolling Stone magazine. Kevin Grandia: The Muckraker, as Rolling Stone aptly calls him, is recognized for his excellent work in the aftermath of Climategate especially. Show More Summary
Climate and Society Students “Develop” Research for NASA, IRI
Two Climate and Society students are working on a NASA DEVELOP project at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Learn about the research and visit their virtual posters.
Yes, Climate Change Is Worsening U.S. Drought — NOAA Report Needlessly Confuses The Issue
NOAA has issued a report on a small part of the recent brutal droughts that have hit the United States over the past few years. The report “An Interpretation of the Origins of the 2012 Central Great Plains Drought” is needlessly confusing, problematic scientifically, and already leading to misleading headlines. Dr. Kevin Trenberth, head of [...]
INFOGRAPHIC: 13 Oil Spills in 30 Days: The Dirty Business of Moving Oil
by Heather Libby. Originally posted at tkctcktck.org
Moving oil is a dirty business, and never has that been more clear than this past month. In the past 30 days the global oil industry has had 13 spills on three continents. And it's not just pipeline leaks - oil has spilled offshore and on, at train derailments and during routine maintenance. Show More Summary
Ontario’s Green Energy Act will cause energy prices to soar
A new Fraser Institute study offers a damning review of Ontario’s implementation of the Green Energy Act (GEA) and their heavy reliance on wind to meet future energy demands. Coalblog readers will likely already know that Ontario has also made … Continue reading ?
Climate Change Keeps Expanding Canada’s Unprecedented Epidemic Of Forest-Destroying Beetles
Since the late 1990s, climate change has driven a massive expansion of forest-destroying Mountain Pine Beetles in Canada, delivering the country one of the worst ecological disasters in its history. The insects are not technically invasive, and until recently they existed in a natural balance with their environment; killing off older trees and making room [...]
Extreme Weather And U.S. Satellites
A polar-orbiting satellite employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retired yesterday after 11 years of service. This is more than three times the typical lifespan of these satellites. Known as the NOAA-17 Polar-Orbiting...Show More Summary
More from the Junior Birdmen
A new paper in Nature by Tingley and Huybers h/t WUWT. In keeping with the total and complete stubbornness of the paleoclimate community, they use the most famous series of Mann et al 2008: the contaminated Korttajarvi sediments, the problems with which are well known in skeptic blogs and which were reported in a comment [...]
ExxonMobil Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Gash 22 Feet Long, Attorney General McDaniel Confirms
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced today that ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline suffered a 22 foot long gash that led to the rupture that gushed up to 294,000 gallons of tar sands dilbit down the streets of Mayflower on...Show More Summary
IRS gives BIG $$$ to big wind
The IRS just upped the value of the production tax credit (PTC) for wind developers, propping up the industry to the tune of another $500 million for projects completed in 2013. In one fell swoop, the IRS gave wind energy … Continue reading ?
A new wave of regulations and policies targets the industry
A new article by Clean Air Markets President, Gary Hart describes what the coal industry can expect during the second term of President Obama. Gary discusses SO2/NOx, MATS, CO2, coal ash, cooling water intake structures, the DC Court of Appeals, … Continue reading ?
The Impact of TN05-17
TN05-17 is by far the most influential Southern Hemisphere core in Marcott et al 2013- it’s Marcott’s YAD061, so to speak. Its influence is much enhanced by the interaction of short-segment centering in the mid-Holocene and non-robustness in the modern period. Marcott’s SHX reconstruction becomes worthless well before the 20th century, a point that they [...]
How 100 Percent Renewable Energy Could Be Cost-Effective For Australia By 2030
A new study published in Energy Policy, and flagged by Wired, suggests that a bold-but-not-extreme carbon price could make providing all of Australia’s electricity needs cost-effective by 2030. This would meet all of the country’s electricity demand as of 2010 (that demand will remain at that level is an optimistic, but not unrealistic, assumption according [...]
Stephen Colbert Highlights DeSmog's Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands Spill No Fly Zone Investigation
The Colbert Report last night featured DeSmogBlog's investigative findings on the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delegating authority over its "no-fly zone" above the Mayflower tar sands spill site to ExxonMobil "aviation...Show More Summary
Alkenone Divergence offshore Iceland
The longest very high-resolution alkenone core that I’m aware of is Sicre et al’s MD99-2275 (plus splices) from offshore Iceland (67N 18W). It is 4550 years long, its most recent value is 2001AD and its resolution is 4 years. Marcott used nearby core JR51GC-35 (also at 67N 18W), also an alkenone record, which had a [...]
Koch & Exxon-funded Willie Soon Challenged by Students at Climate Denial Event
Crossposted from PolluterWatch.
Rarely do we meet those who have made careers selling us lies. Consider the oddball doctors who took tobacco money to deny a link between cigarette smoking and cancer, or the handful of scientists whoShow More Summary
Alkenone Divergence in Peru
Gutierrez et al (GRL 2011) pdf here; data here is another very high resolution alkenone series that is well-dated in the 20th century. It was taken in an upwelling zone offshore Peru at a similar latitude to Quelccaya. Like the high-resolution series offshore Morocco and Namibia, it shows a sharp decline in alkenone-estimated SST in [...]
Poisoning The Water Hole: Exxon Loses In Court, Will Appeal
A jury in New Hampshire found ExxonMobil guilty of negligence for contaminating drinking water with MTBE, a gasoline additive. A New Hampshire jury found Exxon Mobil Corp. negligent in adding MTBE to gasoline and contaminating the state’s drinking water. The jury will continue to deliberate to determine what the company will pay in damages. Exxon [...]
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