Monthly Archives: February 2008
Interesting Paper On Trends In Atmospheric Moist Enthalpy
Souleymane Fall of Purdue University has alerted us to a very interesting new paper on trends in the combined effect on heat of water vapor and sensible temperature (i.e., moist enthalpy; see Pielke et al. 2004). The paper is P. … Continue reading
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New Research Paper “Assessment Of Three Dynamical Climate Downscaling Methods”
Lo, J., Z. Yang, and R. A. Pielke Sr. (2008): Assessment of dynamical climate downscaling methods using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. J. Geophys. Res., J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JD009216, in press. The abstract reads “The common methodology in dynamical … Continue reading
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TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) Data Set Potential in Climate Controversy By Joanne Simpson, private citizen
I am pleased to be able to post a weblog by Dr. Joanne Simpson who is among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years. Her comments were first distributed on a limited mail group, and are reproduced here with her … Continue reading
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Influence Of Water Vapor Trends On Multi-Decadal Surface Temperature Trends – Part IV From Our JGR Paper
This weblog continues the discussion of the issues that we raised in our paper Pielke Sr., R.A., C. Davey, D. Niyogi, S. Fall, J. Steinweg-Woods, K. Hubbard, X. Lin, M. Cai, Y.-K. Lim, H. Li, J. Nielsen-Gammon, K. Gallo, R. … Continue reading
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Follow Up By Fergus Brown To “Is There Agreement Amongst Climate Scientists on the IPCC AR4 WG1?”
Fergus Brown has weblogged on the article that was presented on Climate Science on February 22, 2008 entitled Is There Agreement Amongst Climate Scientists on the IPCC AR4 WG1?. His weblog invites constructive comments, and Climate Science encourages its readers … Continue reading
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Volunteers Across the Nation To Track Climate Clues In Spring Flowers
There was a press release by the USGS in the Department of the Interior on Febryary 14, 2008 by Jake Weltzin, David Hosansky, Catherine Puckett andRachael Drummond title Volunteers across the Nation to Track Climate Clues in Spring Flowers Climate … Continue reading
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Is There Agreement Amongst Climate Scientists on the IPCC AR4 WG1?
One of the readers of Climate Science (Fergus Brown), in response to the questions that have been raised by the weblog (and elsewhere) wanted to poll the climate community to ascertain their views on the IPCC WG1 report. The article that we … Continue reading
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Role Of Soils In The Climate System – An Important New Paper By Professor Dan Yaalon
There is a important new paper by Professor Dan Yaalon of the Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University in the December 2007 issue of Bioscience titled ”Human-Induced Ecosystem and Landscape Processes Always Involve Soil Change.” This paper discusses the role of … Continue reading
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A New York Times Report by Elisabeth Rosenthal “Biofuels Deemed A Greenhouse Threat”
Climate Science has reported that the narrow focus on carbon emissions as the dominate threat to society and the environment has unleashed unanticipated consequences (e.g., see Has The IPCC Produced A Hydra?). A recent (February 8, 2008) New York Time article by Elisabeth Rosenthal … Continue reading
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Photographic Documentation of Poor Sitings – Part III From Our JGR Paper
Part I and II of this series of weblogs (see and see), discussed the serious limited value of the use of a global average surface temperature anomaly to diagnose the global radiative imbalance (i.e., global climate heat system changes), and … Continue reading
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