You would think that a Congressional hearing on climate change would include the best scientists the nation had to offer.Alas, you would be a fool.Instead, it includes a couple of them, with the rest a ragtag group of people you either never heard of, or, have heard of and laughed at.Tomo

No matter how bad your day was, at least there was this:

A letter in today's Oregonian:

I have the cover story in the June issue of Physics World magazine, about air capture of carbon dioxide: "Mopping up carbon."

Via:

Today's CBS Face the Nation segment on "Extreme weather patterns and the possible role of climate change" is actually pretty good -- measured, fair, not sensationalistic, and not dismissive (at all). The participants --  WFOR Chief Meteorologist Davi

"The time is coming when the struggle for dominion over the earth will be carried on. It will be carried on in the name of fundamental philosophical doctrines." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882(From the frontispiece to Clive Hamilton's new book

The huge amount of damage done by Hurricane Sandy -- about $75 billion, with 275 deaths along its path -- has been causing scientists to rethink how they classify storms. Now there's a paper out introducing "TIKE"

Ocean heat content numbers are in for the first three months of 2013, and they show the 0-2000 meter layer increasing more than in any

A fairly big quake.... but nothing here in Salem: http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2013/05/northern_california_shaken_by.html#incart_river_default

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18456081-bridge-collapses-in-washington-state-cars-people-in-water"In a 2010 evaluation, the group said the bridge is "somewhat better than m

A report on this bridge: "functionally obselete":http://nationalbridges.com/i-5-skagit-river-bridgeThis comes from a private citizen, who obtains the database from the Federal Highway Ad

The first thing I think about for something like a bridge collapse over a major American highway-- which shouldn't happen anywhere, anytime -- is the many warnings given by the nation's engineers that our politicians have ignored over the years:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Report-I-5-bridge-collapses-over-Skagit-River-cars-in-water-208758631.html?gallery=y&c=y

http://abcnews.go.com/US/bridge-collapse-skagit-river-washington-sends-cars-people/story?id=19246280

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/23/us/washington-bridge-collapse/index.html

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Report-I-5-bridge-collapses-over-Skagit-River-cars-in-water-208758631.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/23/washington-skagit-river-bridge-collapse/2356801/

This is hard to believe -- and major: a bridge on I-5 has collapsed:http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2013/05/interstate_5_bridge_over_washi.html#incart_river_default Th

... outright lying:(Climate Depot)

Please tell the Pope that we atheists are fine, and to butt-out -- we don't need, or want, his help:

I know Barbara Boxer, Bill Nye, etc. are taking some flack for their comments about the Oklahoma tornado and global warming -- some of it deserved, since their comments tilt towards a definite attribution. Boxer said

Since you can't see me shaking my head as I write this, please reach out with both hands, grasp your monitor, and move it quickly back and forth.What else can you think? Portland gave in to anti-science fearmongering and voted, yet again, to keep fluoride out of their water supply,

More thoughts on the Otto et al paper that finds a lower transient climate response:they find a lower transient climate response -- the warming expected at the point where atmospheric CO2 has doubled -- but not a

Given the lower estimates of climate sensitivity in the Otto et al paper in Nature Geosciences, how much more time does the world have to dilly-dally about cutting emissions?

News from Australia:A government analysis on Thursday showed that electricity generated by highly polluting coal-fired power plants had fallen 14 per cent since the introduction of the tax, while r

Here's a good indication of how much the SkS study means: just a day after being at the top of HuffPo's front page, it no longer appears anywhere

And by the way, why hasn't Obama gotten any credit at

A long-time commenter here writes:"David, you should explain for everyone how it should be done. It is easy to criticize, but what's the solution for the communication?"I don't think it's really a pr

As is often the case, the hullabaloo following a paper about climate is more enlightening than the paper itself.I've noticed two things since Cook et al Environ Res Lett.:1. Everyone is expected to be on one side of the