“The Los Angeles airport’s going to be underwater, so is the San Francisco airport. You’re going to have to move all that, that’s billions, if not tens of billions.” — Jerry Brown, May 13, 2014 AS WE VENTURE DOWN LIFE’S PATH, we must acknowledge that there are those who are preordained to be our political […]
A problem of science, and of understanding
AS A REGULAR READER of The Herald’s editorial page, in recent weeks I noticed that a fellow citizen continues to write and publish various bits of weather data from the U.S. and California. His postings appear to imply that climate change does not exist.
Bob Moore: Are area cities warming?
DO TEMPERATURE RECORDS FOR LOCAL CITIES SHOW A WARMING TREND? Let’s look at the three largest local cities with the longest historical temperature records: San Francisco, Sacramento and San Jose. The historical annual average temperature record for San Francisco is shown in Chart 1, Sacramento in Chart 2 and San Jose in Chart 3. These […]
Jerome Page: Science versus the corporate world
FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW I HAVE BEEN ENDEAVORING to make my pitch for sanity in our handling of the issues related to global warming. I have a huge stockpile of pieces, many hundreds, dominated by the opinions and the research — much of that the very basic research of the most qualified climate scientists in […]