Eric Holthaus on Imagination: “Our Brains are Constantly Being Encouraged to Give Up”

By Rob Hopkins, Eric Holthaus, Rob Hopkins blog

It was in an article about Eric that I first came across the term ‘pre-traumatic stress disorder’, a topic we’ll explore more in a future podcast. How does that impact the imagination, I wondered? So, when I chatted to Eric, I started by asking him to tell us a bit about that journey he went on, of injecting very real human emotion into a field that usually limits itself to facts, figures and data.

2017 Crushed a Major Temperature Record and Scientists are Sounding the Alarm

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

It’s been very cold over North America for days, but globally, 2017 has ended up smashing the record for the hottest year on record without an El Niño. And that has scientists worried, since the warmest years usually happen when the long-term human-caused global warming trend gets a short-term boost from an El Niño’s enhanced warming in the tropical Pacific.

State of the Climate: 2017 Shaping up to be Warmest ‘Non-El Niño’ Year

By Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief

The year 2017 has seen some of the warmest temperatures ever recorded, only slightly below the record set in 2016. It has also seen unusually low Arctic and Antarctic sea ice for much of the year, though the summer Arctic minimum was only the eighth lowest on record. 2017 is also almost certain to be the warmest year without an El Niño event. When the effects of El Niño and La Niña are removed from the temperature record, the first nine months of 2017 are likely the warmest ever recorded.

Stunning NASA Chart Shows How Fast the Ground Beneath our Feet is Heating Up

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

Global temperatures are rising faster on the land, where we live, than the oceans, where we don’t, NASA charts reveal. Since scientists have long predicted this trend and say it will continue, it’s worth a closer look.

Mysteries of Eleuthera

By Albert Bates, The Great Change

What kind of force can leave a four million pound rock on top of a cliff? According to the oceanographers, it was waves. "

Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question

By Erik Lindberg, Transition Milwaukee

Either you will continue to buy, use, and consume as if there is no tomorrow; or you will make substantial changes to the way you live.

A Land Under Waves

By Bob Wise, Eclectications blog

Why does a man who knows about global warming and rising sea levels live by a saltwater canal where his back yard ends twenty inches above the water? Because the location is too beautiful to give up. And because I don’t know if the canal will rise to the doorstep during my lifetime...

Black carbon and warming: It’s worse than we thought

By Carl Zimmer, Yale Environment 360

A new study indicates soot, known as black carbon, plays a far greater role in global warming than previously believed and is second only to CO2 in the amount of heat it traps in the atmosphere. Reducing some forms of soot emissions — such as from diesel fuel and coal burning — could prove effective in slowing down the planet’s warming.

Video and charts make clear the planet is still warming — and there’s only one way to stop it

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

[O]nce the short-term warming and cooling influences of volcanic eruptions, solar activity, and El Niño and La Niña events are statistically removed from the temperature record, there is no evidence of a change in the rate of greenhouse warming.

Sandy: Storms in the Emergency Room

By Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock

Storms in the Emergency Room - Hurricane Sandy, coal and nukes - it's not pretty. From D.C. as storm hits, Earthbeat's Daphne Wysham on the climate connection. From Australia, Greenpeace's Georgina Woods on huge coal expansion. Then a Canadian plan to dump nuclear waste right next to Lake Huron and world's biggest running reactor.