Monthly Archives: May 2008
Welcome To A New Climate And Weather Weblog!
There is a new climate/weather weblog by John Nielsen-Gammon and Barry Lefer called Atmo.Sphere Climate conversation with John Nielsen-Gammon and Barry Lefer I have worked with John on two research papers (see and see) and while I was State Climatologist … Continue reading
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Review Of Cotton and Pielke 2nd Edition By Hans Von Storch
Below is a second review of our book Human Impacts on Weather and Climate 2nd Edition. The review by internationally respected Hans von Storch of the Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center will appear in Meteorlogishe Zeitschrift. [see the … Continue reading
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New Information From Josh Willis On Upper Ocean Heat Content
Josh Willis, in response to a request for information for a short article that I am writing, wrote to me on May 6 2008 the e-mail below [reproduced with his permission]. This e-mail contains important new insight into recent … Continue reading
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Error Growth Beyond The Hapless Butterfly
Climate Science is fortunate to have another guest weblog by the internationally respected scientist Professor Hendrik Tennekes [see also his excellent earlier guest weblogs]. Weblog: Error Growth Beyond The Hapless Butterfly by Henk Tennekes In the minds of … Continue reading
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A Short Explanantion Of Why The Monitoring Of Global Average Ocean Heat Content Is The Appropriate Metric to Assess Global Warming
Climate Science has posted numerous weblogs (e.g. see and see) and several papers (e.g. see) on the value of using ocean heat content changes to assess climate system heat changes. We have also presented evidence of major problems, including a significant warm bias, with … Continue reading
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Challenge to Real Climate On The IPCC Global Climate Model Predictions Of Global Warming
SECOND UPDATE: May 27 2008 In seeking further to assess the agreement between the GISS model and observations, since Gavin would not help, I dug deeper into the paper Hansen et al, 2005 Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications, Science 3 … Continue reading
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Media Report On the Important Role Of Landscape Change On Climate
There is an interesting news article In The Telegraph on May 23 2008 by G.S. Mudur titled “Riders rained out, trees to blame – Jump in green cover over capital the reason for unseasonable showers, say scientists“. The article, referring to … Continue reading
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Follow-up to The Response to Ray Pierrehumbert’s Real Climate Post by Roy Spencer
Follow-Up By Roy Spencer on Ray Pierrehumbert’s Real Climate Post I’ve received the comment that I did not adequately address the last three graphs that Ray showed in his RealClimate.org post of May 21, 2008. These three plots represent what … Continue reading
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Model Verification – A Guest Weblog by Giovanni Leoncini
Giovanni Leoncini is finishing his Ph.D. with Dr. Pielke and is working at the Meteorological Department of the University of Reading on convective ensembles. He can be contacted at g(dot)leoncini(at)reading(dot)ac(dot)uk [Thanks to Timo Hämeranta for alerting us to this paper]. … Continue reading
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A Response to Ray Pierrehumbert’s Real Climate Post of May 21, 2008 by Roy Spencer
Guest Weblog By Roy Spencer on Ray Pierrehumbert’s Real Climate Post of May 21 2008 Since Ray Pierrehumbert has decided to critique some of my published work (and unpublished musings) on global warming over at RealClimate.org, I thought I’d offer … Continue reading
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