Climate “Code Red” Emergency Declaration – challenging “80% by 2050”

” The essence of “Climate Code Red” ( http://www.climatecodered.net/) is that the World is facing a Climate Emergency and a Sustainability Emergency because we have passed crucial atmospheric CO2 “tipping points”, “Climate Code red” further declares that, as demanded by Dr James Hansen, we need not “CO2 emissions reduction targets”… Continue reading

Solar Fluctuations and Global Warming?

Book excerpt from Spencer Weart’s excellent The Discovery of Global Warming. Table of Contents at the webpages of the American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html#contents Summary of chapter on the Sun’s role in setting climate on Earth: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/solar.htm Chapter summary: Since it is the Sun’s energy that drives the weather system,… Continue reading

Obituary: Dr. Burt Bolin, Pioneer Climate Scientist

———————————————— “The greatest disturbances of which we are aware are those now being introduced by man himself. Since his tampering with the biological and geochemical balances may ultimately prove injurious — even fatal — to himself, he must understand them better than today.” Bert Bolin. “The Carbon Cycle.” Scientific American,… Continue reading