Dr. Ricky Rood's Climate Change Blog

• Sea Ice South (3): The Logical Song - May 25, 2011

• Sea Ice South (2): Another Brick in the Wall - May 19, 2011

• Sea Ice South (1): A little geography - May 9, 2011

• 2012 Climate Events: The start of the term - January 4, 2012

• Sea Ice North: The new field of ice-free Arctic Ocean science - April 28, 2011

• Magical Mystery Tour: Unicorns, Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster - May 16, 2013

• How Much Does It Cost: What Can I Do? (6) - May 9, 2013

• We Are What We Eat: What Can I Do? (5) - April 30, 2013

• The Complete List: What Can I Do? (4) - April 21, 2013

• Organizing and Growing Individual Efforts: What Can I Do? (3) - April 10, 2013

• Smoking, Marriage and Climate: What Can I Do? (2) - April 3, 2013

• Setting Up the Discussion: What Can I Do? (1) - March 25, 2013

• Personal and Public Barriers in Responding to Climate Change - March 14, 2013

• Identifying (More) Barriers in Responding to Climate Change - March 7, 2013

• Shoveling Snow Can Make You Nutty - February 24, 2013

• Should We Just Adapt to Climate Change? - February 17, 2013

• National Climate Assessment (NCA): The Midwest - February 12, 2013

• Separated and Unified: One Earth - February 7, 2013

• Separated and Unified: One Climate - January 29, 2013

• A Bridge of Time - January 24, 2013

• The Role of Short Timers - January 18, 2013

• The Optimist’s Time - January 6, 2013

• Things Going Fast - December 21, 2012

• The World Four Degrees Warmer: A New Analysis from the World Bank - November 19, 2012

• Climate Case Studies – Hurricane Sandy (1) - November 12, 2012

• Election Eve: Climate Science and the 2012 Election - November 4, 2012

• Climate Science and the 2012 Election – Redux (1) - October 28, 2012

• It’s Not Getting Warmer – Again, Really? - October 17, 2012

• Modeling Summary and A Change in the Weather: - October 5, 2012

• The Free Market and the Climate: Models, Water, and Temperature (8) - September 22, 2012

• Looking Under the Cloak of Complexity - September 1, 2012

• Point of View - August 23, 2012

• Balancing the Budget: - August 15, 2012

• Ledgers, Graphics, and Carvings - August 7, 2012

• Introduction - Models are not All Wet: Models, Water and Temperature (2) - July 15, 2012

• Belief and Knowledge and Humans and Nature: - July 2, 2012

• Difference Between Night and Day - June 20, 2012

• The Dust Bowl and Sea Level - June 11, 2012

• Heads and Tails: Still thinking about Spring 2012 - June 2, 2012

• Just Temperature Redux: What about the Cherries and Apples? - May 21, 2012

• When Students Listen: Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation - May 7, 2012

• Rhetoric Again - Cycles - April 25, 2012

• A Hot Day’s Night: The Beetles - April 11, 2012

• Just Temperature - March 25, 2012

• Form of Argument: Adventures in Rhetoric - March 9, 2012

• Climate Science and the 2012 Election - January 31, 2012

• Durban – Conference of Parties – A Ethical Problem: - December 2, 2011

• "BEST" temperature record study surprises skeptics - November 3, 2011

• Climate Case Studies – The 2010 Russian Heat Wave: Risks (2) - October 24, 2011

• Earthquakes and Climate Change: - October 13, 2011

• Politics, Events, and the Weather: A Collection - September 29, 2011

• High-Value Crops: Sustainability and Climate Change (4) - September 21, 2011

• Thinking about Water: Sustainability and Climate Change (3) - September 11, 2011

• Composting plastic: Sustainability and Climate Change (2) - August 29, 2011

• Climate, compost, and those plastic cups: Sustainability (1) - August 14, 2011

• Is this year what we can expect? - August 3, 2011

• Heat Waves (4) A Climate Case Study: - July 19, 2011

• Drought, Fire, Flood: In the News - July 12, 2011

• Validation and the Scientific Organization: Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (4) - July 4, 2011

• A Science-Organized Community: Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (3) - June 21, 2011

• The Scientific Organization: Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (2) - June 15, 2011

• Changing the Conversation: Extreme Weather and Climate - June 6, 2011

• Sea Ice South (3): The Logical Song - May 25, 2011

• Sea Ice South (2): Another Brick in the Wall - May 19, 2011

• Sea Ice South (1): A little geography - May 9, 2011

• Sea Ice North: The new field of ice-free Arctic Ocean science - April 28, 2011

• Planning for a Warmer World / Semester Summary - April 18, 2011

• Aircraft contrails found to cause significant climate warming - April 11, 2011

• Reframing Attribution - March 26, 2011

• Perils and Pitfalls of Event Attribution - March 11, 2011

• Cold and Snowy and Warm and Wet - February 24, 2011

• Declaring victory and moving on? - February 14, 2011

• Something New in the Past Decade? Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (1) - February 5, 2011

• A Culture of Checking: Open Climate Models (4) - January 25, 2011

• Open Source Communities, What Are the Problems? Open Climate Models (3) - January 10, 2011

• Connecting climate change to everyday life: Guest blogger Christine Shearer - December 31, 2010

• Old Letter // Changing the Game - December 27, 2010

• A Trillion Tons: Stabilization of Carbon Dioxide (5) - December 17, 2010

• Cancun and News - Again: - December 9, 2010

• Stickiness and Climate Models: Open Climate Models (2) - November 30, 2010

• Greening of the Desert: Open Climate Models (1) - November 21, 2010

• Cancun and News - November 11, 2010

• Regional Climate Information: Real-world use (2) - November 2, 2010

• How Much Warming Can We Avoid? - May 19, 2009

• Shoveling Snow Can Make You Nutty - February 24, 2013

• Separated and Unified: One Climate - January 29, 2013

• Point of View - August 23, 2012

• Ledgers, Graphics, and Carvings - August 7, 2012

• Difference Between Night and Day - June 20, 2012

• Reframing Attribution - March 26, 2011

• Perils and Pitfalls of Event Attribution - March 11, 2011

• National Climate Assessment (NCA): The Midwest - February 12, 2013

• End of 2012: Potpourri (Not a List of Extreme Events!) - December 29, 2012

• Things Going Fast - December 21, 2012

• Energy Security – All the Oil We Want - November 27, 2012

• The World Four Degrees Warmer: A New Analysis from the World Bank - November 19, 2012

• It’s Not Getting Warmer – Again, Really? - October 17, 2012

• Modeling Summary and A Change in the Weather: - October 5, 2012

• New Report: A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling - September 12, 2012

• Just Temperature - March 25, 2012

• Climate Science and the 2012 Election - January 31, 2012

• 2012 Climate Events: The start of the term - January 4, 2012

• 2011 Climate Events: A time of troubles - December 26, 2011

• Durban – Conference of Parties – What Happened? - December 12, 2011

• Durban – Conference of Parties – A Ethical Problem: - December 2, 2011

• "BEST" temperature record study surprises skeptics - November 3, 2011

• Cancun and News - November 11, 2010

• Magical Mystery Tour: Unicorns, Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster - May 16, 2013

• Organizing and Growing Individual Efforts: What Can I Do? (3) - April 10, 2013

• Smoking, Marriage and Climate: What Can I Do? (2) - April 3, 2013

• The Role of Short Timers - January 18, 2013

• The Optimist’s Time - January 6, 2013

• End of 2012: Potpourri (Not a List of Extreme Events!) - December 29, 2012

• Energy Security – All the Oil We Want - November 27, 2012

• Election Eve: Climate Science and the 2012 Election - November 4, 2012

• Climate Science and the 2012 Election – Redux (1) - October 28, 2012

• Belief and Knowledge and Humans and Nature: - July 2, 2012

• Rhetoric Again - Cycles - April 25, 2012

• Form of Argument: Adventures in Rhetoric - March 9, 2012

• Climate Science and the 2012 Election - January 31, 2012

• 2012 Climate Events: The start of the term - January 4, 2012

• 2011 Climate Events: A time of troubles - December 26, 2011

• Durban – Conference of Parties – What Happened? - December 12, 2011

• Durban – Conference of Parties – A Ethical Problem: - December 2, 2011

• Politics, Events, and the Weather: A Collection - September 29, 2011

• How Much Warming Can We Avoid? - May 19, 2009

• Identifying (More) Barriers in Responding to Climate Change - March 7, 2013

• Should We Just Adapt to Climate Change? - February 17, 2013

• A Bridge of Time - January 24, 2013

• End of 2012: Potpourri (Not a List of Extreme Events!) - December 29, 2012

• The World Four Degrees Warmer: A New Analysis from the World Bank - November 19, 2012

• Climate Case Studies – Hurricane Sandy (1) - November 12, 2012

• Difference Between Night and Day - June 20, 2012

• The Dust Bowl and Sea Level - June 11, 2012

• Just Temperature Redux: What about the Cherries and Apples? - May 21, 2012

• Rhetoric Again - Cycles - April 25, 2012

• A Hot Day’s Night: The Beetles - April 11, 2012

• Using Predictions to Plan: Case Study – La Nina and the Missouri River (2) - February 10, 2012

• Extreme Weather: Can we use predictions to plan? - November 22, 2011

• Climate Case Studies – The 2010 Russian Heat Wave: Risks (2) - October 24, 2011

• Drought, Fire, Flood: In the News - July 12, 2011

• Shoveling Snow Can Make You Nutty - February 24, 2013

• Things Going Fast - December 21, 2012

• Modeling Summary and A Change in the Weather: - October 5, 2012

• The Free Market and the Climate: Models, Water, and Temperature (8) - September 22, 2012

• New Report: A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling - September 12, 2012

• Looking Under the Cloak of Complexity - September 1, 2012

• Point of View - August 23, 2012

• Balancing the Budget: - August 15, 2012

• Ledgers, Graphics, and Carvings - August 7, 2012

• Introduction – Models are Everywhere: - July 30, 2012

• Introduction - Models are not All Wet: Models, Water and Temperature (2) - July 15, 2012

• When Students Listen: Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation - May 7, 2012

• Simply Uncertain - February 21, 2012

• Using Predictions to Plan: Case Study – La Nina and the Missouri River (2) - February 10, 2012

• Using Predictions to Plan: Case Study – La Nina and the Missouri River (1) - January 14, 2012

• Extreme Weather: Can we use predictions to plan? - November 22, 2011

• Validation and the Scientific Organization: Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (4) - July 4, 2011

• A Science-Organized Community: Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (3) - June 21, 2011

• The Scientific Organization: Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (2) - June 15, 2011

• Something New in the Past Decade? Organizing U.S. Climate Modeling (1) - February 5, 2011

• A Culture of Checking: Open Climate Models (4) - January 25, 2011

• Open Source Communities, What Are the Problems? Open Climate Models (3) - January 10, 2011

• Stickiness and Climate Models: Open Climate Models (2) - November 30, 2010

• Greening of the Desert: Open Climate Models (1) - November 21, 2010

• Earthquakes and Climate Change: - October 13, 2011

• Ledgers, Graphics, and Carvings - August 7, 2012

• Using Predictions to Plan: Case Study – La Nina and the Missouri River (1) - January 14, 2012

• Extreme Weather: Can we use predictions to plan? - November 22, 2011

• Is this year what we can expect? - August 3, 2011

• Drought, Fire, Flood: In the News - July 12, 2011

• Changing the Conversation: Extreme Weather and Climate - June 6, 2011

• Cold and Snowy and Warm and Wet - February 24, 2011

• Durban – Conference of Parties – What Happened? - December 12, 2011

• A Trillion Tons: Stabilization of Carbon Dioxide (5) - December 17, 2010

• It’s Not Getting Warmer – Again, Really? - October 17, 2012

• Climate Case Studies – The 2010 Russian Heat Wave: Risks (2) - October 24, 2011

• Heat Waves (4) A Climate Case Study: - July 19, 2011

• Climate Case Studies – The 2010 Russian Heat Wave: Risks (2) - October 24, 2011

• Modeling Summary and A Change in the Weather: - October 5, 2012

• Sea Ice South (3): The Logical Song - May 25, 2011

• Sea Ice South (2): Another Brick in the Wall - May 19, 2011

• Sea Ice South (1): A little geography - May 9, 2011

• Sea Ice North: The new field of ice-free Arctic Ocean science - April 28, 2011

• High-Value Crops: Sustainability and Climate Change (4) - September 21, 2011

• Thinking about Water: Sustainability and Climate Change (3) - September 11, 2011

• Composting plastic: Sustainability and Climate Change (2) - August 29, 2011

• Climate, compost, and those plastic cups: Sustainability (1) - August 14, 2011