Una vita spericolata, una vita come

Life as a target
As a climate scientist, I have seen my integrity perniciously attacked. Politicians have demanded I be fired from my job because of my work demonstrating the reality and threat of human-caused climate change. I’ve been subjected to congressional investigations by a congressman in the pay of the fossil fuel industry and was the target of what The Washington Post referred to as a “witch hunt” by Virginia’s reactionary Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. I have even received a number of anonymous death threats.

Mi ricordo che erano uscite due minacce di morte sul sito di Real Climate, appena iniziata la persecuzione di Climategate. Nauseanti.

But being the focus of such attacks has a silver lining: I’ve become an accidental public figure in the debate over human-caused climate change. Reluctant at first, I have come to embrace this role, choosing to use my position in the public eye to inform the discourse surrounding the issue of climate change.
Sua moglie è una santa.
Fonte: The Scientist

Come in Oklahoma e dintorni
Anche per Katie Keranen, della Conoco-Philips School of Geology et al., in USA la quantità crescente di terremoti “significativi” – fuori dalle zone storicamente sismiche – è potenzialmente legata al fracking. In particolare:

Here we identify the largest earthquake potentially related to injection, an Mw 5.7 earthquake in November 2011 in Oklahoma. The earthquake was felt in at least 17 states and caused damage in the epicentral region. It occurred in a sequence, with 2 earthquakes of Mw 5.0 and a prolific sequence of aftershocks.

Watchin’ the Deniers
L’ondata di neve e freddo in UK significa che siamo già nella mini-era glaciale, dice l’impareggiabile Piers Corbyn che – come l’alt.uff. delle FF.AA – guarda il clima dalla finestra. Per via del gelo che a suo avviso aumenta dal 1998, all’NSIDC dicono:

On March 15, 2013 Arctic sea ice likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 15.13 million square kilometers, 733,000 square kilometers below the 1979 to 2000 average of 15.86 million square kilometers … This year’s maximum ice extent was the sixth lowest in the satellite record… The ten lowest maximums in the satellite record have occurred in the last ten years, 2004 to 2013.

Maxima? Meno male che dal 2004 il Sole ronfa.