Hurricane Patricia drew immediate attention by intensifying from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in a single day. It soon developed the fastest winds ever recorded in a western hemisphere storm. Meteorologists and climate scientists have already begun their scientific investigations of how a cyclical El Niño and […]
CCNF Headline News and Reports
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Climate Change and Hurricane Katrina: What Have We Learned?
Three weeks and three days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans 10 years ago, a paper of mine appeared in...
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Has the Clean Power Plan Abandoned Energy Efficiency?
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday released the final version of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which mandates...
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Why Scientists are Calling for Nuclear Power to Save Biodiversity
The idea we might need nuclear power to save biodiversity from the effects of climate change is one that could not have...
Two Conservatives Debate Solutions on Climate Change
Below is an excerpt from a CCNF debate between Bob Inglis — former Republican Representative (SC, ’93-’99, ’05-’11) and current Executive Director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”), and Sam Thernstrom —Executive Director of the Energy Innovation Reform Project, Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest, and former Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The […]
Read more ›Ocean Circulation, Climate Change, and Arctic Sea Ice
Recent observations of the Atlantic deep ocean overturning circulation, called the Atlantic Meridional (north-south) Overturning (up-down) Circulation, or AMOC, also known as the Great Conveyor Belt, or Thermohaline Circulation, shows that it has been decreasing since 2004, the time for which detailed measurements are available from the RAPID program. Climate […]
Read more ›The Pope’s Encyclical: Climate Change’s Profound Challenges to Maine
“Now, faced as we are with global environmental deterioration, I wish to address every person living on this planet,” Pope Francis began in his first papal encyclical on the environment last week. In his far-reaching 184-page letter titled “Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home” the pope said the […]
Read more ›CCNF Interview with Divestment Movement Leaders
Below are a set of excerpts from a CCNF virtual session with Ben Franta, PhD Candidate in Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a board member of the group Divest Harvard, and Geoffrey Supran, MIT Energy Fellow and leader of the group Fossil Free MIT. The transcript is minimally […]
Read more ›CCNF negotiating with potential partners, sponsors to educate millions on climate before COP21
Houston, Texas (CCNF) July 11, 2015 — Already a trusted source for citizens and educators wanting to hear what real climate scientists have to say about climate change, CCNF has now opened up its online forum to an ongoing discussion on values and has begun hosting a bipartisan debate on climate […]
Read more ›The Faucet
The effects of climate change on individual extreme events consist of thermodynamic changes and atmospheric circulation changes. In a new opinion piece in Nature Climate Change, Kevin Trenberth, John Fasullo, and Ted Shepherd (TFS) argue that we should be focusing on the thermodynamic changes. While I agree that such an […]
Read more ›CCNF Member Columnists:
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John Anderson
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Jim Bouldin
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John Nielsen-Gammon
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Barry Lefer
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Kerry Emanuel
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Andrew Dessler
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Mauri Pelto
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Lulu Liu
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Andreas Schmittner
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Scott Denning
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Jeremy Shakun
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Michael Tobis
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Sean Bryan
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Stephanie Thomas
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Sean Robinson
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Daniel Cohan
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Judith Curry
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Will Howard
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Eric Galbraith
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Muge Komurcu
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Ron Sass
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David Hone
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Eric Steig
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Tracy Hester
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Shi-Ling Hsu
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Bob Inglis
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Jed Anderson
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Josiah Neeley
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Andy OBrien
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Peter Sinclair
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Bruno Marino
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Benjamin Franta
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Suzanne Waldman