National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA: 2000s Were The Hottest Decade On Record
So it looks like 2009 has been declared the second-hottest year on record, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. And the 2000s, on the whole, are officially the warmest decade on record—warmer than the 1990s, which in turn were warmer than the 1980s, which in turn beat out the 1970s. For the past 30 years, the Earth's been heating up by about 0.2°C per decade: READ MORE >>
Why Are The Himalayas Melting? Blame Soot.
Planet Worth
Another Round With The CRU E-mails...
An Interview With George Will's Favorite Climatologist
On our homepage today, Marilyn Berlin Snell has a terrific interview with climatologist Stephen Schneider, the scientist who, as a grad student moonlighting at NASA in 1971, predicted that the effects of aerosol pollution could outweigh the warming effects of CO2 and bring about a bout of global cooling. READ MORE >>
TNR Q&A: Dr. Stephen Schneider
The Case Against Awards
Sharpen Your Pencils for Education Innovation
Pop quiz: You read a draft notice for a federal grant program containing the terms, “internal validity,” “quasi-experimental,” “regression discontinuity,” and “interrupted time series.” The program in question is: a) A CDC program to fund pre-development of the porcupine flu vaccine b) An FDA program to spur commercialization of an at-home test for polonium in your food c) A NASA program to support design of a low-cost module that will allow humans to populate Venus READ MORE >>
Earth to Obama
El Niño, 1998, And "Global Cooling" Revisited
To be honest, I've never been terribly interested in the long-running pseudo-debate over whether global warming "stopped" in 1998. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's the dime version: 1998 was an exceptionally hot El Niño year, we're all agreed. READ MORE >>
