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The Global Warming controversy is ended…
Global surface temperatures………Credit: Berkeley Earth Project The Global Warming controversy is ended. Right. Take a look at the graph above. It shows the results of global temperature measurements over a span of some 100-200 years as compiled by four groups: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), United Kingdom Meteorology [...]
Posted in Impact: Climate Change Also tagged Berkeley, climate change, Earth Surface Temperature, global warming, Met Office, Muller, NASA, NOAA, Rohde, skeptic 2 Comments
Global warming: The climatology of resignation
Second in a series of posts discussing the impact of ten topics framed by ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine. The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell development, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. This post reads more [...]
Posted in Impact: Climate Change Also tagged AAAS, climate change, climatology, consensus, global warming, Media, paleoclimatology, politics 2 Comments
New evidence: Change in North Atlantic currents
The Labrador Current……..Credit: Wikipedia Along the Eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, at the bottom of the ocean shelves live a deep-sea coral known as a gorgonian or sea fan. The often intricate fan shape of these corals is used to filter food from the prevailing sea current. In the cold waters of [...]
Posted in News: Climate Change Also tagged climate change, coral, global warming, gorgonian, Labrador Current, nitrogen signature, North Atlantic Oscillation, rings Leave a comment
A framework for thinking about a healthy planet
We should be angry when information that must be widely available – something with real public impact – is sequestered behind a paywall. This is by way of putting some emotional steam into an important article in the eminent Scientific American, April 2010, titled Boundaries for a Healthy Planet. Why is this article important? The [...]
Posted in Impact: Climate Change Also tagged acid oceans, biodiversity loss, boundaries, climate change, global warming, healthy planet, land use, nine environmental boundaries, nitrogen, overpopulation, ozone depletion, phosphorous, planetary boundaries, pollution, tipping points, water shortage Leave a comment
Doubling down on climate change prediction
For many years, decades really, climatologists, meteorologists, ecologists and other scientists have labored to produce hundreds of reports, studies, books that detail their own field’s view of what’s happening to the Earth’s climate. Thousands of scientists, several decades of work, googolplexes of data, unending discussion and debate – in the end, however, a rather simple [...]
Posted in Impact: Climate Change Also tagged climate, CO2, GlacierGate, IPCC, models, policy Leave a comment
Global warming may have unforeseen (and nasty) tipping points
Similar to the financial crisis of 2008, or the over-fishing of the seas, the dynamics of the global warming problem are pretty well known. What is not known are all the possible ‘tipping points,’ those events (big or small) that can push the dynamic forces into crisis, and how rapidly crises can develop. That’s the [...]
Posted in Impact: Climate Change Also tagged climate change, ecology, ecosystems, global warming, tipping point Leave a comment
“Climategate” a spinmeister’s delight
It’s like a stage full of whirling dervishes: spin left, spin right, faster, faster. What has become known as “ClimateGate” (the name itself is, of course, a piece of spin) continues to hog media time. Less than a week after email from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was hacked/pilfered/stolen (pick your [...]
The Copenhagen Diagnosis – a new global warming report
The last United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was based on data collected by 2006. A new report, labeled ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’ updates that report with data and analysis since that time. The Copenhagen Diagnosis is the work of 26 scientists and consists of material already peer-reviewed and published, so there isn’t [...]
The Planet Under Pressure conference