California's new climate change website

Jerry Brown, Governor of California, announces the launch of a website dedicated to climate change and the case against skeptics of climate change or global warming caused by humans: Climate Change: Just the Facts.

See this story at Huffington Post: Jerry Brown Global Warming Website Takes On Climate Change Deniers.

New analysis released by Berkeley Earth

The latest Berkeley Earth study shows that the average global land temperature has risen by 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.4 degrees Celsius) since 1750, including 1.5 degrees F (0.9 degrees Celsius) in the past 50 years. This closely agrees with findings from past studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA and others, and is rigorous enough to satisfy Richard Muller, a prominent scientist who was once skeptical that climate change was real and more so, that it is caused by humans. The good match between this new temperature record and historical carbon dioxide records suggests that the most straightforward explanation for global warming over this period is human greenhouse gas emissions.

See 250 Years of Global Warming: Berkeley Earth Releases New Analysis.

See also Climate Change Skeptic U-Turns And Says Warming Is Real And Humans Caused It.

What global warming looks like

Climate scientists have warned that climate change will bring more heat waves, more droughts, more torrential downpours, more wildfires and worse storms. Sound familiar?  This year in the U.S., more than 2 million acres have burned in wildfires, more than 100 million people were under extreme heat advisories by end of June, and two-thirds of the country was in drought while deluge flooding has occurred in several states.This may be what global warming looks like at the personal level.  See Summer ‘what global warming looks like’.

North Carolina tries to legislate science

North Carolina plans to address its coastal sea level rise by writing a law requiring inaccurate projections.  This would allow current development of its coast line to continue based on a falsely understated estimate of sea rise  projected by climate science.  See North Carolina Wishes Away Climate Change.

How the world is changing

Mount Hood in Oregon, late summer

Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Damage to White Spruce, Alaska