Tag Archives: RealClimate

Remembering the floods

Posted on January 9, 2012 by malcolm

I wrote about extreme weather events and their connection to global warming two and a half months ago and a small coincidence leads me to revisit the topic. Today has been chosen as the day of remembrance for the disastrous … Continue reading →

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Climate change and extreme weather events

Posted on October 29, 2011 by malcolm

For the last few years I, among others, have been looking at the news and wondering to what extent this, that or the other extreme weather event – the 2010 Russian heatwave, the Queensland floods, record flooding in Thailand, etc … Continue reading →

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Exxon believes in global warming

Posted on September 10, 2011 by malcolm

A snippet from an item by Dirk Notz on RealClimate: On 30th August, Exxon announced a deal with Rosneft, the Russian state oil company. As part of this deal, Exxon will invest more than US$2 billion to support Rosneft in the exploitation … Continue reading →

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Good news on renewable energy

Posted on June 13, 2011 by malcolm

RealClimate, my favourite way of keeping up with climate science, runs a monthly ‘open thread’ to which anyone is welcome to contribute a question or interesting bit of news. Two submissions which attracted my attention this month were about the … Continue reading →

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