Vice: A Commentary on the Politics of Climate Denial
I was recently invited to a screening of the new film Vice,
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Climate Change and Extreme Summer Weather Events – The Future is still in Our Hands
Summer 2018 saw an unprecedented spate of extreme weather events, from the floods in Japan, to the record heat waves across North America, Europe and Asia, to wildfires that threatened Greece and even parts of the Arctic. The heat and drought in the western U.S. culminated in the worst California wildfire on record. This is the face of climate change, I commented at the time.
On Tropical Atlantic Warmth and Hurricanes
A new study just out in Science attributes the unusually active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season to tropical Atlantic warming. Furthermore, it attributes that warmth to human-caused climate change (a combination of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and sulphate "aerosols" from industrial pollution).
Hurricane Florence - A Climate Change Triple Threat
Here's the "Director's Cut" of my recent op-ed in The Guardian (includes nearly three extra paragraphs toward the end)
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Hurricane Florence - A Climate Change Triple Threat
We Need New Leadership
During the past year, I have published letters and op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal (among m
A Return to the Madhouse
Two years ago, in the home stretch of our last presidential election, Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles and I published a book about climate change denial (“The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy”). Denialism was still a major problem, we argued.
Our Response to the Latest Climate Change-Denying Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
Fixing the headline would be simple (just remove “but Not”), but the op-ed itself is irreparable, constituting little more than a litany of denialist talking points. No, ice is not accumulating on Earth—it is melting.
Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump
With a climate change denier in the White House, climate denialism has reached a new low point in America. Indeed, my co-author Tom Toles and I have devoted a whole new chapter to the matter ("Return to the Madhouse: Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump") in the new paperback edition of our book The Madhouse Effect (now available for pre-order).
A Sensitive Topic
There is a quantity known as the "Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity" or "ECS" that serves as a traditional measure of the warming effect of greenhouse gases. The ECS characterizes the total warming we would expect from a doubling of the concentration of greenhouse gases (e.g. from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million to the 560 ppm level that would be expected by the middle of this century if we continue with the unabated burning of fossil fuels) once the climate system fully adjusts to this increase.
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