Earthworms are getting some loving, concerned attention as to their imminent aqua predicament. The University of Leeds made this announcement: Researchers are to investigate whether the humble earthworm is being threatened by climate change and flooding here in the UK. Scientists from the University of Leeds, the University of York and the University of Liverpool will spend the next […]
The authors of this weather-and-climate study did not resist the allure of shiny words: “Improving Weather and Climate Predictions by Training of Supermodels,” Francine Schevenhoven, Frank Selten, Alberto Carrassi, and Noel Keenlyside, Earth System Dynamics, epub 2019. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the University of Bergen, Norway, […]
Everything in the world has every effect, though on different people, is one possible interpretation of the meaning of this study: “Effect of climate and seasonality on depressed mood among twitter users,” Wei Yang, Lan Mu [pictured here], and Ye Shen, Applied Geography, Volume 63, September 2015, Pages 184–191. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing […]
It’s been a big week for educated speculation about climate influences. As mentioned yesterday, castrating additional reindeer by chewing off their testicles just might be a small but gleaming key to slowing climate change. Now comes word from the Carnegie Institution for Science that “Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes had an impact on the […]
