Tagged: Jeff Masters

Welcome to the rest of our lives - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jul 10, 2012 •

• Climate business,
• Climate Crock of the Week,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• Drought,
• extremes,
• ExxonMobil,
• Jeff Masters,
• Peter Sinclair,
• USA

Here’s an excellent new video from Peter Sinclair, contrasting the recent weather disasters in the USA with the “we’ll adapt” line recently run by ExxonMobil boss Rex Tillerson. It’s a powerful message, to which I would o... Read More

The Bast Effect: summertime in wintertime - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Mar 18, 2012 •

• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Progress,
• Climate Science,
• extremes,
• Heartland,
• Jeff Masters,
• Joseph Bast,
• Stu Ostro,
• USA

Forget the Gore Effect1, Chicago — and much of the eastern half of the continental USA — is now experiencing the Bast Effect — a record March heatwave in the Heartland of climate denial. The figures for this heatwave are truly extraordinary. Here’s Jeff Masters: For the third consecutive day, Chicago, Illinois hit their warmest [...] … Read More

Stormy weather: we’re making it worse, and there’s more on the way - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Nov 20, 2011 •

• Climate cranks,
• Climate Science,
• David Wratt,
• extremes,
• GWPF,
• IPCC,
• Jeff Masters,
• Nigel Lawson,
• SREX,
• Trenberth

The IPCC released the summary for policymakers of its Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) in Kampala, Uganda, on Friday (SPM, SREX site, launch presentation slides). The report concludes that globally there has been a significant decrease in cold days and nights and an [...] … Read More

Wet, wet, wet - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jul 19, 2011 •

• Arctic sea ice,
• Climate Science,
• Earth Observatory,
• Jeff Masters,
• NOAA,
• NSIDC

Sunshine is pouring down on the Arctic, and the high summer melting season is well under way. This photograph from NASA’s Earth Observatory shows crew from the US Coast Guard cutter Healey collecting a supply drop canister from melt ponds on the surface of the ice in the Beaufort Sea during the current Icescape exercise. [...] … Read More

The Climate Show #15: Michael Ashley and the ineducable Carter - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jun 29, 2011 •

• Arctic sea ice,
• Bob Carter,
• Climate business,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• electric vehicles,
• extremes,
• Jeff Masters,
• Monckton,
• nz,
• ocean,
• ocean acidification,
• shale gas,
• Skeptical Science,
• stoat,
• The Climate Show,
• volcano

We thought we’d try for a record short show — and failed, because once again there was just to much to talk about. We have more on Eritrean volcanoes, extreme weather over the last 18 months, a new report on the dire state of the oceans, and Stoat’s big bet. Special guest is Professor Michael [...] … Read More

Catch a fire (worst year since 1816) - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Jun 26, 2011 •

• arctic,
• Climate Science,
• Drought,
• ENSO,
• extremes,
• floods,
• heatwaves,
• Jeff Masters,
• snow

The extraordinary sequence of extreme weather events during the last 18 months is probably the worst run of natural disasters since 1816, when a huge volcanic eruption at Mt Tambora cooled the earth enough to cause the famous “year without a summer“, according to a powerful blog post by Weather Underground founder Jeff Masters. He [...] … Read More