hurricanes

Shelter from the storm

by Bryan Walker September 17, 2010

Towards the end of a recent Yale Environment 360 interview, following a technical discussion of hurricane formation in a changing climate, scientist Kerry Emanuelis asked a question. Given the likely increase in intensity and power of storms and sea level rises, what needs to be done now in the US to start planning for this? [...]

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Fire and rain

by Gareth August 12, 2010

The last few weeks have seen some extraordinary weather events around the world: relentless extreme heat in Russia, biblical flooding in Pakistan and devastating landslides in China. Tens of millions of people have had their lives disrupted and thousands have died, and — beyond reasonable doubt — global warming is playing a part in creating [...]

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Fools rush in…

by Gareth May 18, 2010

At the Heartland climate crank conference in Chicago a speaker predicts global cooling, and immediately becomes headline news for Morano and the denial echo machine. At the very same time, NOAA releases its global climate report for April, and notes that not only is April the warmest in the long term record, but that January [...]

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Life in the Hothouse

by Bryan Walker May 5, 2010

“Wetlands are wastelands” was the explanation the chair of a local trust in my city gave for opposing a grant to a wetlands restoration project. He’s a rabid climate change denier and hence unlikely to read Melanie Lenart’s recently published book Life in the Hothouse: How a Living Planet Survives Climate Change. If he did [...]

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Tear-stained Letterman

by Gareth September 11, 2008

David Letterman channels James Lovelock, using an interview as an excuse for a rant (hat-tip Frog). “We’re screwed. We’re walking dead people. We are the lost civilisation, our time is over.” I think – I hope – he’s joking.

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Chris hates Greenpeace

by Gareth November 27, 2007

False balance time at the Herald. Last week they gave Greenpeace climate campaigner Susannah Bailey a chance to look at how certain sectors of the business community (Greenhouse Policy Coalition, Business Roundtable etc) are lobbying against current plans for an emissions trading scheme, this week they give NZ Climate “Science” Coalition science advisor Chris de [...]

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Revenge of the zombie facts

by Gareth November 5, 2007

Dr Vincent Gray is one of the most active of NZ’s little band of cranks. He’s been publishing his “envirotruth” newsletter since the ’90s, always brimful of climate scepticism, and has been a stalwart reviewer of IPCC reports. His most recent contribution to the IPCC process was to make 1,898 comments on the final draft [...]

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