Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Climate Letter.
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The first one was sent out by email on October 14, 2013 to a group made up of friends and family who had expressed an interest. Here is how it went:
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“Welcome to my new climate letter. I’ll start things off with something pretty simple, a couple of the really good outside sources of both news and basic information, nicely presented. Even if you don’t have much time you can easily pick out things of interest for reading. In any case, set up a special bookmark folder and save these sites. There will be a lot more coming.
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First, Carbon Brief, which is from the UK, http://www.carbonbrief.org/ You should sign up for their daily email, where I find one or two good reading items every day. Public discussion in England on this subject is way ahead of what we see in the US. Along that same line you might want to check out the level of reporting at the Guardian newspaper. Their site is at http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-change
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Another great site for daily updates is called “Climate Denial Crock of the Week,” which is a misnomer, but Peter Sinclair has a keen eye for interesting new developments of many kinds. https://climatecrocks.com/ With this one I just go to the site every day or two and scroll down for stories, which are plentiful, and more. Right now you can find a short video interview with Stefan Rahmstorf, one of the very top scientists in the field, who has a neat way of telling it as it is.
In this interview Stefan observes that energy companies are spending $700 billion per year, worldwide, just looking for new sources of fossil fuel, money that could go a long way toward establishing alternatives if redirected. I would add that whoever is spending that 700 bil on new discoveries will not actually sell production and start receiving a return for around eight to ten years. The investors are obviously pretty confident that there will be a market for their products at that time, and will do whatever they can to keep that dream alive. Could they possibly have an influence with politicians, or with the media?
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This is all for today. I am now working on ways to best describe the relationship between CO2 and air temperature. If you know of others who might be interested in these sorts of things just tell them to sign up. Carl”
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All of that information still holds up. Looking back, I have always had a heavy interest in the sciences but for some reason skipped over climate science until early in 2013. That’s when I picked up a copy of James Hansen’s book, “Storms of My Grandchildren,” off the shelves of the local library, and got excited by it, thinking the subject might deserve more attention. That feeling, which soon led to writing the climate letters, has only deepened, and today it is about all I can think about.
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The latest letters, you may have noticed, still reflect an interest in the relationship between CO2 and air temperature, but now that has evolved into making a distinction between air temperatures over land and over the oceans. Once again, James Hansen is responsible. When rummaging through his website at http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/ I found a chart that had been buried away in an obscure place and got excited by the unusual message it was conveying. Go back to yesterday’s letter, look at the two charts, read about them and also the material in CL #1273, and see if you agree. The message I am getting seems clear, and unfortunately rather discouraging. My confidence in the accuracy of this particular message is not yet deep, but it is deepening, and no doubt more will be said about it in future letters.
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A lot has changed in the last five years, including the climate itself and the broadening of associated concerns. The next five should see much more of an awakening, and I hope to be part of it.
Carl