Monthly Archives: April 2006
What Fraction of Global Warming is Due to the Radiative Forcing of Increased Atmospheric Concentrations of CO2?
This is a long weblog. The bottom line conclusions are written here to motivate reading the entire weblog. CONCLUSIONS: 1. The primary focus on carbon dioxide inappropriately deemphasizes the first order importance of the other climate system heat system forcings … Continue reading
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Review of A Book on Land Use Change Effects
In 2004 I completed a review of a book which is very relevant to the discussion of land use change as a climate forcing and on the vulnerability perspective that has been emphasized on the Climate Science weblog. This review … Continue reading
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An Earlier Paper on the Role of Regional Land Surface Change and Regional Aerosol Emissions As First-Order Climate Forcings
Professor Dev Niyogi has alerted me to another important paper that was published in a journal that is normally not read by climate scientists. This paper, published in 1994, provides important background information on why land surface processes are so … Continue reading
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The Value of Weblogs for Climate Science
Science magazine published an article on April 14, 2006 entitled “Environmental Science Adrift in the Blogosphere” (subscription required) by Alison Ashlin and Richard J. Ladle. The Policy Forum article discussed the value of weblogs. It specifically mentioned the Climate Science … Continue reading
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New CCSP Committee With the Same Conflict of Interest
A new CCSP Committee , the “Climate Extremes: Analysis of the Observed Changes and Variations and Prospects for the Future” Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.3 is being configured. This Committee suffers from the same conflict of interest that was associated … Continue reading
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A Win-Win Solution to Environmental Problems
At the April 13, 2006 Session “Climate Change – What Happens in a Warmer Rockies?” at the Colorado College “State of the Rockies Conference”, there was a very informative talk by Auden Schendler, Director of Environmental Affairs at the Aspen … Continue reading
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Inaccurate Climate Science Reporting
There is a news article today (April 19, 2006) by Reuters. It is entitled “Global warming hits Canada’s remotest Arctic lands”. It provides an example of the systemic problem in many climate media reports to inaccurately report on climate science. … Continue reading
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New Study on the Importance of Regional Climate Studies
A new paper has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy by Christophe Barbraud and Henri Weimerskirch entitled ” Antarctic birds breed later in response to climate change“ “In the northern hemisphere, there is compelling evidence for climate-related … Continue reading
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New Paper on Land Use/Land Cover Change as a First-Order Regional Climate Forcing
Professor Dev Niyogi of Purdue University has alerted me to a new paper (subscription required) by B. Timbal and J. M. Arblaster in GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS entitled “Land cover change as an additional forcing to explain the rainfall decline in … Continue reading
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Are Multi-Decadal Climate Forecasts For the Rocky Mountiains Skillful?
Yesterday, I participated in a meeting at Colorado College entitled ” 2006 State of the Rockies Report Conference“. The Report by Colorado College that was compiled for this Conference is very informative, and recommended to anyone who would like an … Continue reading
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