Monthly Archives: August 2007
Advocacy In The Guise Of Climate Science – A New Paper That Exemplifies This Approach
There is a new paper that presents a claim that the Earth’s climate system is dominated by positive radiative feedbacks, and that includes the heading in section of the paper “Planet Earth today: imminent peril”. This sensationalism, however, in the … Continue reading
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Deferred Forecasts Of Global Warming – An Example Of The Misuse of Science
A blatant example of masking an untested hypothesis as a scientific paper has been published in Science. The paper is âImproved Surface Temperature Prediction for the Coming Decade from a Global Climate Modelâ? Doug M. Smith, Stephen Cusack, Andrew W. … Continue reading
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More On Another Climate Forcing Effect – Ozone
There is a paper in Nature which discusses an effect of increased ozone on the carbon assimilation and release into the atmosphere. The paper is S. Sitch, P. M. Cox, W. J. Collins and C. Huntingford, 2007: Indirect radiative forcing … Continue reading
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A Summary Of “Causes Of Land-use And Land-cover Change By Eric Lambin and Helmut J. Geist
A summary article by Eric Lambin and Helmut J. Geist entitled “Causes of land-use and land-cover change” succinctly summarizes the reasons for land-use and land-cover change [thanks to Jason English for alerting us to this!]. The Introduction reads, “Identifying the … Continue reading
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New Paper On The Role Of Landscape Degradation And Resultant Dust On The Climate System
There is an interesting paper on the role of dust within the climate system that may also be relevant for the record loss of Arctic sea ice in recent years. It is Painter T. H., A. P. Barrett, C. C. … Continue reading
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Climate Science Is Retiring – Thank You To Everyone For Your Participation!
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the diverse subjects on Climate Science! The site has been active since July 2005. However, the maintenance and preparation for the weblog requires quite a bit of time, and I have … Continue reading
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Further Analysis Of Radiative Forcing By Norm Woods
In the book Cotton, W.R. and R.A. Pielke, 2007: Human impacts on weather and climate, Cambridge University Press, 330 pp, we presented results by Norm Woods (who works with Graeme Stephens) on the magnitude of radiative forcing for three types … Continue reading
Final Agenda posted for NSF Workshop starting Monday August 27th
The final agenda is now posted for the NSF sponsored workshop 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 starting Monday August 27th in … Continue reading
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Part 2: Feedbacks, the Infrared Iris, and the Role of Precipitation Processes by Roy Spencer
Feedbacks and the Importance of Short Time Scales In my last post, I used a simple time-dependent energy balance model to demonstrate that our traditional methods of shortwave feedback diagnosis from observational data are likely leading to âfalse positivesâ?. Without … Continue reading
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The Bunny Fence Experiment In Western Australia – A Field Campaign To Better Understand The Role of Landscape As A Climate Forcing
There is an ongoing study of land use change, led my my close research colleague, Udaysankar Nair, that will add to our understanding of the role of landscape in weather and climate. The program is called BUFEX for The Bunny … Continue reading
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