Climate Change

Trust, but Verify

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:24:00 GMT

Trust, but Verify (AMS-2): (This article is about climate science, but you have to make it through the beginning.)In the previous blog I wrote about the talk at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting by Jim Rogers the CEO of of Duke Energy. I stated that often when I talk positively about the roles of corporations in addressing climate change, mistrust is one of the first things I hear about. (I am perpetually naïve.) The United States is a cu...
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Duke of Climate (AMS-1)

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:28:00 GMT

Duke of Climate (AMS-1)Did those storms hit California? The ones that those models predicted last week? Haven’t had time to watch the weather, but people tell me there are rain delays in Phoenix. I’ve been at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting in Atlanta. It’s been a while since I have been to a “science” meeting, and this meeting was excellent. It had a far more vital feeling than the last AMS meeting I was at. The next few bl...
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Warm Cold Warm Cold

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:24:00 GMT

Warm Cold Warm Cold You may remember that early last winter it was cold in the eastern half of the United States. There was a lot of press about what the cold weather implied about global warming. I wrote a series of blogs last year that are: Cold in a Warm WorldCold in the EastLast Year and This YearLast Year and This Year – and the Next Big Story?I have started teaching again. One of things we do in the beginning of the class we talk about what people alrea...
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Already Old News: Copenhagen

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:04:00 GMT

Already Old News: Copenhagen Something of an unexpected blogging hiatus started with that blizzard. This is my comeback. This is my look back at the Conference of Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen. Having written a whole bunch of blogs before and during the meeting, fortunately or unfortunately, I have stuff to look back on. I can even cherry pick my own words. So I made a political prediction – “well, I imagine that the machinations of legislation and lobbyi...
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Yaris, the Blizzard and Me

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:10:00 GMT

Yaris, the Blizzard and Me As those of you who read Jeff’s blog, and everyone does, you know that Jeff declared me snowbound in the Great Blizzard of 2009. (I met a woman whose admiration for Jeff’s blog had him at the celebratory level of Robert de Niro.) This is my story of the blizzard.Before I got to Maryland, I had looked at the forecast. Of course, I dismissed the threat of being “snowbound” based on my Washington-DC-press index of blizzard forecas...
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