Published: Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago
This is the first installment of my attempt to convert a scientific paper (my own) into plain language that is accessible to everyone. Feel free to ask questions in the comments. I’ll respond there, or...
View ArticleFrankenstorm and the Isotopes
Earlier this week, Hurricane Sandy (an anomalous late-season hurricane) made landfall in the United States near Atlantic City, NJ (also anomalously far North). Because of the timing of Sandy (near...
View ArticleBad Geology Movies: The Day After Tomorrow, 2004
The Day After Tomorrow 2004 Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal Premise: When the world’s ocean circulation patterns are disrupted by melt water due to global warming, the Earth is plunged into a sudden ice...
View ArticleDecoding the Hockey Stick – Part 1
There is a lot of discussion about climate change these days. It’s quite a polarizing topic, actually. It’s astounding to me to see how science – or a scientific result – is suddenly a taboo topic in...
View ArticleBeware of Movies! Climate Change
The Beware of Movies! series is meant to point out some of the scientific inaccuracies of popular movies, specifically in points related to the geological sciences. This post will point out the major...
View ArticleOrbital Cycles and Climate
One of the things that comes up when someone talks about climate change is the apparent cyclicity of climatic changes. The Earth has been through several rounds of ice ages and warming in recent...
View ArticleThe Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum – Is Modern Global Warming Anything to...
There are lots of names for it, some good, some bad: Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate-gate, The Climate Hoax. Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, you’ve heard at least one of these things....
View ArticleFriday Headlines: 2-22-13
Friday Headlines, February 22, 2013 THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES First and foremost: NSF proposal due today has been submitted. I may now carry on with my regularly-scheduled career. CT SCANS HELP...
View ArticleWhat Can A Clam Teach Us About Climate Change?
One of the many projects I work on involves the study of climate change in the fossil record. I’ve put a bit of it on-line here. What I’ve published thus far deals mostly with interpreting general...
View ArticleThe Scientific Method
We’re all taught in elementary school about the scientific method: 1) Ask a question 2) Make observations and/or do some background research 3) Develop a hypothesis to explain observations 4) Test...
View ArticleFriday Headlines: 10-4-13
Friday Headlines, October 4, 2013 THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES Today’s round-up: IPCC: Same message, more certainty Lake turns animals into statues Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
View ArticleGlobal Warming; Shrinking Mammals – #365papers – 2017 – 76
#365papers for March 17, 2017 D’Ambrosia, Clyde, Fricke, Gringerich, Abels, 2017, Repetitive mammalian dwarfing during ancient greenhouse warming events: Science Advances, v. 3, e1601430. What’s it...
View ArticleHow Can We Know How Much Global Warming is Responsible for Extreme Weather? –...
#365papers for April 25, 2017 Diffenbaugh, Singh, Mankin, Horton, Swain, Touma, Charland, Liu, Haugen, Tsiang, and Rajaratnam, 2017, Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme...
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