Monthly Archives: May 2007
The 2007 IPCC WG1 Authors are Climate Skeptics.
The word “skeptic” has been used to either implicitly and explicitly criticize those who disagree with the IPCC perspective on the role of humans in global climate change. As presented at the website Wikipedia, the definition of a “climate skeptic” … Continue reading
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Are There More Storms Than There Used To Be? by Peggy LeMone
Dr. Lemone has graciously permitted us to post on Climate Science her weblog below from her website. Her first guest weblog appeared on Climate Science May 9 2007. The Guest weblog follows: The work of Roger Pielke, Sr., discussed in … Continue reading
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A New Paper On The Role Of Land Surface Processes On Tropical Cyclone Activity
There is a new paper which documents the close coupling between land surface processes (in this case dust from the Sahara Desert and the Sahel in Africa, and tropical cyclone activity. The paper is Wu L. (2007), Impact of Saharan … Continue reading
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Comment In February 2007 issue Of The Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society On Attribution Based On Model and Observation Intercomparisons
There was a very interesting Comment published in the February 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. It is entitled A. T. J. de Laat, 2007: Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming … Continue reading
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Boulder Colorado August 27-29 2007 Meeting On “Detecting the Atmospheric Response to the Changing Face of the Earth: A Focus on Human-Caused Regional Climate Forcings, Land-Cover/Land-Use Change, and Data Monitoring”
The registration is now open for the meeting Detecting the Atmospheric Response to the Changing Face of the Earth: A Focus on Human-Caused Regional Climate Forcings, Land-Cover/Land-Use Change, and Data Monitoring 27-29 August 2007 Boulder, Co. The meeting topics have … Continue reading
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Impact of Desert Dust Radiative Forcing on Sahel Precipitation – A New Research Paper
A valuable new paper has appeared on the role of dust within the climate system. A significant portion of this dust results from human mismanagement of semi-arid landscapes (e.g. see and see). The paper is Yoshioka, M., N.M. Mahowald, A.J. … Continue reading
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Perspective Of Professor William R. Cotton On “Global Warming”
Recently, Professor William R. Cotton of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University was asked the question below, “I heard you are speaking out about global warming. Do you have a presentation you use that could help me … Continue reading
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A Short Summary Of Why Skillful Climate Prediction Is Much More Difficult Than Skillful Weather Prediction
Climate Science has already weblogged on the claim in the 2007 IPCC WG1 report that, “âProjecting changes in climate due to changes in greenhouse gases 50 years from now is a very different and much more easily solved problem than … Continue reading
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Guest Weblog by Barry H. Lynn, Richard Healy, and Len Druyan
Introduction by Roger A. Pielke Sr. Climate Science has had a very productive e-mail exchange of perspectives in response to the weblog of May 14 2007. The authors of the article referred to in the weblog have graciously agreed to … Continue reading
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More Presentation Of Climate Predictions as Scientific Fact
There is a new Science paper Richard Seager, Mingfang Ting, Isaac Held, Yochanan Kushnir, Jian Lu, Gabriel Vecchi, Huei-Ping Huang, Nili Harnik, Ants Leetmaa, Ngar-Cheung Lau, Cuihua Li, Jennifer Velez, and Naomi Naik: Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to … Continue reading
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