Monthly Archives: October 2009
Examiner.com’s First Annual Survey on Global Warming
Update November 3 2009 330pm EST: The poll is going to close in less than an hour. If you intend to participate, please do so now. Tom Fuller of Examiner.com is conducting a survey – Examiner.com’s First Annual Survey on Global Warming. I … Continue reading
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Interesting Post On Biofuels By Katharine Sanderson On The Nature.com Website
There is an informative post titled Biofuel woes by Katharine Sanderson on the Nature.com/climatefeedback website. It reads in part “Two papers in Science yesterday have poured cold water on the promise of second generation biofuels. Biofuels derived from the cellulosic, woody parts … Continue reading
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Comments On Len Ornstein’s Post “How To Quickly Lower Climate Risks, At ‘Tolerable’ Costs?”
On October 26 2009 Len Ornstein posted a guest weblog titled “How To Quickly Lower Climate Risks, At ‘Tolerable’ Costs?”. He has requested that I comment on his proposal to reduce carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. As I have … Continue reading
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Further Support For Temperature Trends Associated With Land Use Change – Rosenzweig Et Al 2009 “Mitigating New York City’s Heat Island”
There is an important, well written new paper that provides further evidence that land use change significantly influences the use of surface air temperatures in these areas as part of the construction of a global average surface temperature anomaly. The … Continue reading
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Further Comments On The Vulnerability Perspective
On September 21 2009 I posted The Vulnerability Perspective. In it, I identified 5 major resource areas that should be the focus of assessments as to the spectrum of risks from climate variability and change, as well as from other environmental … Continue reading
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Comments On AP Story “Statistics Experts Reject Global Cooling Claims”
UPDATE: October 27 2009: Seth Borenstein has alerted us to a full version of his article, which does include more details on the study [only the version I posted below was seen on the google news search yesterday]. The study approach … Continue reading
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Guest Weblog By Len Ornstein “How To Quickly Lower Climate Risks, At ‘Tolerable’ Costs?”
In keeping with my goal to permit a diversity of views to be posted on my weblog by published climate scientists, below is a post by Len Ornstein. Guest Weblog By Len Ornstein titled “How to Quickly Lower Climate Risks, at … Continue reading
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Is The Human Input Of CO2 A First Order Climate Forcing?
In response to my post Erroneous Claim in an AP News Article, I have been asked if I consider if the human addition of CO2 is a first order climate forcing. The answer, of course, as I have consistently emphasized in … Continue reading
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Erroneous Claim in an AP News Article
UPDATE #2 October 24 2009: If Dina Cappiello, Seth Borenstein and/or Kevin Freking chose to reply in order to refute my criticism of their statement in the news article, we would be glad to post as a guest weblog. UPDATE Oct … Continue reading
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Comments On Roy Spencer’s Excellent Post “IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0″
Roy Spencer published an excellent post on October 18 2009 titled “IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0″. He post includes the statements “The most glaring example of this bias [that of the IPCC] has been the lack of interest on the … Continue reading
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