Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
Report: Iowa, Midwest face stronger storms, more flooding
>> Des Moines Register
Big storms, leading to big floods, are occurring with greater frequency in the Midwest with the incidence of severe flooding doubling in the last half-century, according to a report issued today by two environmental groups.
Climate: Why the discredited cloud theory won’t die
>> InsideClimate News
Richard Lindzen’s rejected idea that clouds can help prevent catastrophic climate change keeps resurfacing, thanks largely to nonscientist skeptics.
Bill Blakemore: Journalists should ‘hug the monster’ on climate
>> ABC News
Sooner or later, everyone who learns about the rapid advance of manmade global warming must deal with the question of fear.
David Roberts: ‘Reasonable middle’ on climate change?
>> Grist
My instincts all tell me that a Goldilocks message on climate only serves to soothe and anesthetize. Alarm isn’t enough, it isn’t a complete communications strategy, but surely, in an alarming situation, we must begin with alarm.
Brad Plumer: No, wind farms aren’t causing global warming
>> Washington Post
Scientific studies are misrepresented all the time. But now and again the distortions get particularly bad. That was the case Monday, when Fox News ran the headline, “New Research Shows Wind Farms Cause Global Warming.”
Tom Henry: Midwest should heed Pacific island’s climate warning
>> Toledo Blade
The Great Lakes region should heed what’s happening in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, where for the first time a nation could be swallowed by rising sea levels.
Paul Douglas: Forecast calls for climate-smart business
>> Bloomberg
We risk our technological and engineering — and moral — leadership to other countries if we continue to deny and debate established science.
David Roberts: Watch the climate conversation run aground in Iowa
>> Grist
Here’s a fascinating anthropological case study on how climate change plays out in the heartland.
Study: Climate change to be major factor in corn prices
>> New York Times
Researchers have found that climate change is likely to have far greater influence on the volatility of corn prices over the next three decades than factors that recently have been blamed for price swings — like oil prices, trade policies and government biofuel mandates.
Franken criticizes GOP senators for absence at climate change hearing
>> The Hill
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken chided Republicans Thursday over their absence from a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the effects of rising sea levels on energy facilities and other infrastructure.
