Blogging the End of the World™
8 November 2013 (Al Jazeera) – The deadliest known outbreak of a measles-like virus in bottlenose dolphins has killed a record number of the marine mammals along the U.S. Atlantic coast in recent months, officials said Friday. A total of 753 bottlenose dolphins have washed up from New York to Florida from July 1 until […]
By Seth Shulman, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)7 November 2013 (LiveScience) – Al Dutcher, Nebraska’s state climatologist, is an expert on climate change and a professor at the University of Nebraska. He’s also a self-described conservative who is outraged that the state legislature and Nebraska’s Republican governor are letting politics interfere with questions of science. […]
By Manuel Mogato, with additional reporting by Rosemarie Francisco, Manuel Mogato, and Karen Lema in Manila and Nguyen Phuong Linh in Hanoi; Editing by Jason Szep and Nick Macfie9 November 2013 TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall devastated the central Philippines, killing more than 1,000 people in one […]
By David Edwards31 October 2013 (Raw Story) – A so-called “historian,” who radio host Glenn Beck hired to teach at his online university and is now considering a run for the U.S. Senate, recently asserted that climate change was an example of God’s judgment “on the spot” for sins like abortion. In an appearance on […]
By Dr. Jeff Masters 7 November 2013 (wunderground.com) – Super Typhoon Haiyan has made landfall. According to PAGASA, Haiyan came ashore at 4:40 am local time (20:40 UTC) November 7, 2013 near Guiuan, on the Philippine island of Samar. Forty minutes before landfall, Guiuan reported sustained 10-minute average winds of 96 mph, with a pressure […]
Geneva, 6 November 2013 (WMO) – The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet for hundreds and thousands of years. The World Meteorological Organization’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows […]
By Juan Cole5 November 2013 (Informed Comment) – The issue of habitable planets, earth’s own disastrous climate change, and Virginia politics don’t intersect every day. But today they do, and that does not reflect well on the human species or its prospects. Bear with me. NASA’s now-idle Kepler telescope’s earlier search for habitable planets […]
By Lia Harris6 November 2013 (The Advertiser) – As South Australia prepares for a scorcher with catastrophic fire conditions in some areas, CFS crews have already extinguished two scrub fires overnight and attended a third near Birdwood this morning. CFS crews were called to a grass fire at Forreston, about 5km from Birdwood, at about […]
By Harriet McLeod3 November 2013 (Reuters) – “Shrimpers are reporting to us that they dump the bag on the deck, and the shrimp are just dead,” one fisheries director said. Wild shrimp hauls off the southern Atlantic coast have plunged in recent months as a parasite has made it harder for the creatures to breathe, […]
By Christopher Rowland 5 November 2013 WASHINGTON (Boston Globe) – The setting was not unusual for a scholarly conference: a bland ballroom in a Houston hotel. But Willie Soon’s presentation was anything but ordinary. As PowerPoint slides flashed on a screen, his remarks crescendoed into a full-throated denunciation. “Those people are so out of their […]
