Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
It has been on the radar for some time now, and as recently as last week I was giving a heads up that this was coming. The EPA has now finally announced that they are rolling back the existing emissions regulations. It’s a proposal, and not a done deal. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking The formal … Read more
The UK’s Met office has published a full scientific report on the state of the climate in the UK. The Press Release is here. The full report published within The International Journal of Climatology is here (open access). The report is a summary of the UK climate in 2017 and places it all within the … Read more
NOTE: An updated and rewritten version of this posting can be found here on Medium. Just how high does the temperature need to get before it becomes too hot for human life to be maintained? It’s actually quite a complicated question to answer and yet there is an answer – 35C – beyond that you … Read more
Weather and climate are not the same thing. We can and do have weather events that that are extreme. Often such events are attributed to climate, but the subject matter experts generally tend to pause and not make that leap.What about the current heatwave, is that an extreme weather event, or can we attribute an … Read more
Despite a change in leadership at the top of the EPA the fight to rollback Californian auto emissions is still game-on. Bloomberg reports on 23rd July … Trump to Seek Repeal of California’s Smog-Fighting Power … As part of the effort, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose revoking the Clean Air Act waiver granted … Read more
How do we know that humans are responsible for Global warming, or that there is in fact any Global warming at all, what evidence do we have? There are in fact several lines of evidence. We know that certain gases such as CO2 are greenhouse gases. This is been an established fact for rather a … Read more