Monthly Archives: January 2010
Q & A How Skillful Are The Global Climate Models Given The Relatively Small Radiative Human-Caused Forcing?
Dan Hughes has asked a very good question! Professor Pielke, I have a candidate for Question of the Day. The GCMs, and very likely all mathematical models of the transient behavior of the Earth’s Climate Systems, use approximations to the complete … Continue reading
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Paper Which Documents The Importance Of Spatially Heterogenous Human Climate Forcing – Shindell and Faluvegi 2009
Our research and that of a number of our colleagues have emphasized the major importance of regional heterogenous human climate forcings with respect to their effect on atmospheric and ocean patterns on all time scales. For example, in National Research Council, 2005: Radiative … Continue reading
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News Release On The Importance Of Soot In The Climate System
I have posted a number of times on the role of soot as a first order climate forcing (e. g. see) as well as published papers on this topic (e.g. see). Soot (black carbon) results from industrial and biomass burning … Continue reading
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Guest Post By Thomas Chase On An Update On “Was The 2003 European Heat Wave Unusual In A Global Context”
Guest Post By Thomas N. Chase Update on Chase, T.N., K. Wolter, R.A. Pielke Sr., and Ichtiaque Rasool, 2006: Was the 2003 European summer heat wave unusual in a global context? Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L23709, doi:10.1029/2006GL027470. In Chase et … Continue reading
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Comments On “Oscilloscope – Britain’s Cold Snap Is Explained By The Arctic Oscillation” in the Economist
UPDATE: Feb 10 2010 The author of the article below has sent me a follow up which I have posted below with his permission. I appreciate his taking time time to follow up and clarify. Dear Dr Pielke I fear … Continue reading
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News Article Titled “Desertification May Have Retarded Global Warming By As Much As 20%”
Asher Meir has alerted us to a news article titled “Desertification may have retarded global warming by as much as 20%” by Ehud Zion Waldoks which has appeared in the Jerusalem Post. Excerpts from the article read “In an article published on … Continue reading
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Information On The American Geophysical Union Natural Hazards Website On The Haiti Earthquake Prepared By Professor Alik Ismail-Zadeh
The American Geophysical Union Natural Hazards Focus Group, led by Professor Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Chair of the AGU Natural Hazards Focus Group [of which I am a member along with outstanding colleagues; see] has posted information on the earthquake in Haiti. It was … Continue reading
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Interesting News Article In Nature Titled “The Real Holes In Climate Science”
The is an interesting news article by Quirin Schiermeier in Nature titled “The Real Holes In Climate Science” This news summary contains both recognition (finally) of some the complications of assessing the role of humans in the climate system, but also … Continue reading
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Comment On “AMS2010: Data Gaps And Errors May Have Masked Warming” By Olive Heffernan At The Weblog Climate Feedback
There is a post on the Nature website Climate Feedback by Olive Heffernan titled AMS2010: Data gaps and errors may have masked warming This is a remarkable post in that it fails to properly assess all of the data sources for climate … Continue reading
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Interview By Ray Taylor At OurClimate.Eu Titled “Copenhagen, Europe, Africa and a Vulnerability Paradigm”
Ray Taylor at OurClimate.eu of the Land-Atmosphere Resilience Initiative [ see and see also] conducted an interview of me titled Copenhagen, Europe, Africa and a Vulnerability Paradigm The article starts with “RAY TAYLOR: Good morning Professor Pielke and thank you for … Continue reading
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