Category Archives: environment

It’s official: we really have saved the ozone layer

In a parallel universe without the Montreal Protocol, mankind is gearing up for some major sunburn.
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Categories: climate science, environment, paper reviews

Peak coal?

Not hundreds of years’ worth left, as is claimed?
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Categories: environment, geology

Climate variability and climate change: some semantics

What these terms actually mean – and the distinction between them.
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Categories: by Anne, climate science, environment

Volcano monitoring good: Republican antiscientism getting tedious

The geoblogosphere has rightly been up in arms today about the idiotic comments of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who ended his list of examples of what he viewed as wasteful spending in the US stimulus bill by decrying the $140 … Continue reading

Categories: antiscience, environment, geohazards, ranting

Satellite Imagery of the Australian Bush Fires

NASA’s Earth observatory has posted a couple of images of the bush fires currently devastating southeast Australia. 7 February 9 February The sheer scale of these fires is scary; presumably, things are not helped by the drought Australia has been … Continue reading

Categories: environment, geohazards