Monthly Archives: December 2011
Happy New Year!
I am taking off this week from posting and will start again on January 2 2012. Meanwhile, enjoy this Holiday week! source of image
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Merry Christmas!!!
I wish everyone, on all sides of the climate science debate, an enjoyable Holiday Season!!! source of image
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Further Confirmation Of Klotzbach Et Al 2009
Update: After I wrote and scheduled this post, I see that John Christy and Roy Spencer have a directly related weblog post titled Addressing Criticisms of the UAH Temperature Dataset at 1/3 Century which appeared yesterday. As many of you … Continue reading
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Example Of A Bottom-Up, Resource-Based Perspective On Environmental Risks – CBS 60 Minutes – “The Gardens of the Queen”
CBS 60 minutes presented an excellent example of the value of a bottom-up, resource-based prespective of risk as we have proposed in our paper Pielke Sr., R.A., R. Wilby, D. Niyogi, F. Hossain, K. Dairuku, J. Adegoke, G. Kallos, T. … Continue reading
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The Proposed Multi-Dimensional Growth Of The EPA In Climate Science
There is a news article by George Russell of Fox News titled EPA Ponders Expanded Regulatory Power In Name of ‘Sustainable Development’ which includes the text [highlight added] “Environmental impact assessment tends to focus primarily on the projected environmental effects of … Continue reading
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Meeting Announcement “Non-CO2 Influences Of Land Cover Changes On Climate” At The European Geosciences Union General Assembly – Vienna, 22 – 27 April 2012
I received this meeting announcement today. I am pleased to see this much need broadening beyond CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases. The use of carbon stocks as the measure of climate change is, by itself, insufficient to characterize the … Continue reading
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What Climategate 2.0 Says About The Prediction Of Multi-Decadal Regional Climate Change
Marcel Crok has alerted us to the post by Maurizio Morabito titled On The Slow, Painful (and Deadly) Demise Of The IPCC at the weblog The Unbearable Nakedness of Climate Change Their post involves the discussion of the predictive skill … Continue reading
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November 2011 University Of Alabama Analysis Of The Global Lower Tropospheric Temperature Analysis
Phil Gentry has provided the November 2011 update of the University of Alabama lower troposheric temperature analysis. Global temperature record reaches one-third century Global Temperature Report: November 2011 Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade November … Continue reading
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Interesting Article From Reason.Com On The Relative Roles Of Climate And Societal Influences On Vulnerability
There is an excellent article on Reason.com which fits within the bottom-up, resource-based vulnerability perspective that we present in our paper Pielke Sr., R.A., R. Wilby, D. Niyogi, F. Hossain, K. Dairuku, J. Adegoke, G. Kallos, T. Seastedt, and K. … Continue reading
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An Important 2011 AGU Presentation “Tree-Ring Extension Of Precipitation Variability For Eastern Nevada: Implications For Drought Analysis In The Great Basin Region, USA By F. Biondi And S. Strachan
There is an interesting abstract presented at the 2011 AGU Conference in San Francisco by Franco Biondi The title and abstract are [highlight added] ABSTRACT FINAL ID: H42G-08; TITLE: Tree-Ring Extension of Precipitation Variability for Eastern Nevada: Implications for Drought Analysis … Continue reading
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