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NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

NASA: The 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 — despite recent minimum of solar irradiance - "We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade" and "there has been no reduction in the

Note:  Hansen wants comments on this draft, so keep 'em coming.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has released a revised draft of "Global Surface Temperature Change," by James Hansen et al.  It is a must read for warming junkies.  There's also a a summary discussion of the paper (reprinted below), and two PowerPoint posters of key figures like this one:

Blue curve: 12-month running-mean global temperature.   Note correlation with Nino index (red = El Nino, blue = La...

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) says BP oil gusher is 'not an environmental disaster.' - Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) adds, 'Acts of God are acts of God.'

Salon has a great feature called, "This Week in Crazy."  Here are some nominees from Big Oil's biggest boosters in Congress, courtesy of Think Progress.

Last week, Obama administration officials admitted that the Deepwater Horizon blowout is the worst oil disaster in American history, exceeding the Exxon Valdez spill, as they estimated that the gusher had spewed between 15 and 40 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Around the same time, however, Rep. Don Young (R-AK...

As oil arrives on Mississippi beaches, will dirty energy lobbyist-turned-Governor Barbour continue to praise BP and mock news coverage of the spill?

The Biloxi Sun Herald reports that oil began covering two miles of Mississippi's Petit Bois Island yesterday as a "larger glob crept close to Dauphin Island in Alabama, and the edge of the main slick has moved to within about 35 miles of Mississippi, about half the distance it was last week." Much of the oil hitting the beaches had "escaped detection because it was floating a couple of feet below the surface." Reacting to the looming disaster, Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) sounded the...

Contractor: BP is trying to hide dead animals, since the ocean will eventually wash away the evidence

In recent weeks, reporters and photographers for major news organizations around the country have been speaking out about the attempts by BP to prevent them from getting a first-hand look at the Gulf Coast oil spill. A CBS News crew was threatened with arrest when it tried to photograph the spill, and a BP representative in Louisiana told a Mother Jones reporter that she couldn't visit the Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge without a BP escort.  TP has the story in this repost.

On Monday, ...

Obama begins spill-to-bill pivot: BP oil disaster means we must end our dependence on fossil fuels - "The time has come, once and for all, for this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future.... And the only way to do that is by finally putting a pric

The votes may not be there right now, but I intend to find them in the coming months. I will make the case for a clean energy future wherever I can, and I will work with anyone from either party to get this done.  But we will get this done.  The next generation will not be held hostage to energy sources from the last century.

Insiders had said the President would begin the pivot from the BP oil disaster to the need for comprehensive climate and clean energy jobs legislation this month (see "a

Obama begins spill-to-bill pivot: BP oil disaster means we must end our dependence on fossil fuels - "The time has come, once and for all, for this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future.... And the only way to do that is by finally putting a pric

The votes may not be there right now, but I intend to find them in the coming months. I will make the case for a clean energy future wherever I can, and I will work with anyone from either party to get this done.  But we will get this done.  The next generation will not be held hostage to energy sources from the last century.

Insiders had said the President would begin the pivot from the BP oil disaster to the need for comprehensive climate and clean energy jobs legislation this month (see "a