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2M ago
August 05, 2024 The American Red Cross is experiencing an emergency blood shortage as the nation faces dangerous levels of heat and people head out for final summer travel plans. Since July 1, the Red Cross national blood supply has ..read more
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2M ago
A scientist, who was censored and demoted by the Trump administration because she spoke the truth about climate change, has filed a “whistleblower” complaint — NOT because she wants compensation for herself, but because she wants other scientists to be ..read more
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3M ago
There’s no escape from climate change. Severe storms are happening so often, and costing so much, that homeowners’ insurance rates are (pun intended) “through the roof.” Early warning fails when hurricanes intensify from lowly category 1 to lethal “cat 5 ..read more
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6M ago
I don’t know the young man behind this, but I know his dad. Be proud. Climate change education is essential to help young people face the future ..read more
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7M ago
In the last post I discussed sea level at New York City, and showed this graph of yearly averages with a PLF fit (piecewise linear fit): I like the PLF because it has simple statistical behavior, and one can choose ..read more
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7M ago
The New York Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) recently unveiled their latest projections for future sea level rise in New York City. You can view their presentation here, but in my opinion it’s very boring. There has been a lot ..read more
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7M ago
New blog posts will be slow coming this week, because I’m busy doing science. First, the new adjusted temperature data and the methods to produce it should be published in the peer-reviewed literature, and in my opinion, soon. Second, I’m ..read more
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8M ago
Looking at global temperature anomaly since 1950 (data from NOAA), it clearly shows acceleration around the year 1975. For the 25 years prior to that, it’s hard to say whether it was rising or falling but it surely wasn’t going ..read more
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8M ago
In the last post I discussed the changes I’ve made to my method for adjusting temperature data, to compensate for volcanic eruptions, the el Niño southern oscillation, and solar variations. It seems that some readers like to play with data ..read more
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8M ago
The “CO2 Coalition” has prepared a report claiming that in Wyoming, “… high daily temperatures peaked during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s and have been in a 90-year decline.” To back up this claim they show this graph ..read more