Monthly Archives: September 2010
Is There Agreement Amongst Climate Scientists On The IPCC AR4 WG1? By Brown Et Al 2008
As a follow up to the post Survey Of Climate Scientists Announced On Hans von Storch’s Weblog “Die Klimazwiebel” I have posted today on the survey that Fergus Brown, James Annan and I completed two years ago which we reported in … Continue reading
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2010 Pakistan Floods: Climate Change Or Natural Variability?” by Madhav L Khandekar
I have been alerted to an excellent article by Madhav L. Khandekar from the latest edition of the CMOS Bulletion. The article is titled 2010 Pakistan Floods: Climate Change Or Natural Variability?” [this article was also posted on ICECAP] The article … Continue reading
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Report On Sea Level Rise And Ground Water Extraction
There is a news article from the University of Utrecht [thanks to Erik for alerting us to this!] titled Rising sea levels attributed to global groundwater extraction The article starts with the text “Large-scale groundwater extraction for irrigation, drinking water or industry … Continue reading
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Comments On NOAA’s Report Of Deep Ocean Warming
I was alerted by Leonard Ornstein to a NOAA news article titled Scientists Find 20 Years of Deep Water Warming Leading to Sea Level Rise The article includes the text “Scientists analyzing measurements taken in the deep ocean around the globe … Continue reading
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Invited Letter Now Rejected By Nature Magazine
UPDATE: September 27 2010 – see the post “You Are Invited To Waste Your Time” I was invited by Nature magazine to write a Letter in response to the September Exeter meeting http://www.surfacetemperatures.org/home, and have been working with a member of their … Continue reading
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Weather And Climate – Well Summarized By On Tomas Milanovic On Climate Etc.
Tomas Milanovic has a accurate succinct summary of the relationship between weather and climate on the weblog post The Uncertainty Monster at Climate Etc. The comment reads “Weather is chaotic, nobody disputes that. The “climate” is exactly the same system, obeying to … Continue reading
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Survey Of Climate Scientists Announced On Hans von Storch’s Weblog “Die Klimazwiebel”
A detailed survey of climate scientists has just been announced by Hans von Storch on his website Die Klimazwiebel in a post titled CliSci Survey – results documented The report, by Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch is titled GKSS-Report 2010/9: CliSci2008: A … Continue reading
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New Paper “On Potential Causes For An Under-Estimated Global Ocean Heat Content Trend In CMIP3 Models” By Cai Et Al 2010
There is a new paper on the comparison of model and observed global ocean heat content changes for the period 1951 to 1999 (thanks to Josh Willis for alerting us to it!). The paper is Cai, W., T. Cowan, J. M. Arblaster, … Continue reading
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Comment To Andy Revkin On The Dot Earth Post “A-Sharp-Ocean-Chill-And-20th-Century-Climate”
Dot Earth has a post titled A Sharp Ocean Chill and 20th Century Climate David W. J. Thompson, John M.Wallace, John J. Kennedy & Phil D. Jones, 2010: An abrupt drop in Northern Hemisphere sea surface temperature around 1970. Nature. … Continue reading
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Further Confirmation Of Klotzbach Et al 2009
In Klotzbach, P.J., R.A. Pielke Sr., R.A. Pielke Jr., J.R. Christy, and R.T. McNider, 2009: An alternative explanation for differential temperature trends at the surface and in the lower troposphere. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D21102, doi:10.1029/2009JD011841. Klotzbach, P.J., R.A. Pielke Sr., … Continue reading
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