Skeptophilia

One of the frightening things about a system in equilibrium is what happens when you perturb it. Within limits, most systems can recover fro...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation  (AMOC), sometimes nicknamed "the Atlantic Conveyor," is an enormous oceanic curre...

It's a point I've made here more than once; if you're trying to convince someone of something, your argument is not  made strong...

With the insane weather we've had this summer -- and which is showing no signs of calming down -- it's easy to forget about another ...

As I write this, large chunks of the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, M...

Imagine going back 240 million years. This would land you in the early Triassic Period .  By this time, the Earth would have had twelve mill...

Ellesmere Island would be high on the list of the Earth's most inhospitable places. It's huge, only slightly smaller in area than B...

One of the most frustrating things about human behavior is that we can receive repeated hints and warnings that if we keep doing what we...

When people think of environmental degradation, usually what comes to mind are urban areas, agricultural land either grazed bare by cattle o...

One of the most frustrating things is that instead of meeting the challenges we have and then moving forward, we seem to be fighting the sam...