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Guest Post – Climate Change Predictions, Including Extreme Hydrometeorological Events By Dr. Millán Millán

We are very appreciative to have a guest post by Millán Millán, Executive Director, Institute CEAM-UMH in Spain. With my encouragement, he has accepted posting his excellent presentation this past summer GUEST POST  European Union-United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction  EU-UNISDR International … Continue reading

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“The Greenhouse Effect – Part II” by Ben Herman and Roger Pielke Sr.

Update #2 John Nielsen-Gamon has alerted us to more information on the Moon’s radiative temperature. John e-mailed  I read your blog post on Greenhouse Part 2.  I also recently came across the Science of Doom web site; it seems to … Continue reading

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Guest Post “Calculating Moist Enthalpy From Usual Meteorological Measurements By Francis Massen

Francis Massen, in response to the posts, Comment On The Northeast Heat Wave Further Information On The Role Of Water Vapor In Measuring Heat By Francis Massen has graciously prepared a write up of how to compute the moist enthalpy of surface … Continue reading

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Climate Change: The West vs The Rest by Will Alexander

We are fortunate to have a guest post by Will Alexander (see his earlier one here). WJR (Will) Alexander is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Honorary Fellow of the South … Continue reading

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Further Comment By Kevin Trenberth

On Sunday April 25 2010, Kevin sent me the e-mail below which continues the constructive discussion we are having on Climate Science.  It is reproduced below with his permission. Roger I am just back from travel: actually I was at a … Continue reading

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Living on the Edge – Changing Wetlands in the Sahel – A Book Review by Henk Tennekes

Dear friends in the blogosphere, I received a precious gift from a Dutch friend a little while ago. Living on the Edge: Wetlands and Birds in a Changing Sahel is a massive book, comprising 564 pages in full color and … 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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Guest Post By Andrew Dessler On The Water Vapor Feedback

Professor Andrew Dessler of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of Texas A&M University requested the opportunity to respond to my post Q & A Are Water Vapor Feedbacks From Added CO2 Well Understood? I welcome his openess to discuss this issue, … Continue reading

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Guest Weblog By Leonard Ornstein On Ocean Heat Content

Leonard Ornstein has agreed to write a guest weblog on ocean heat content as a diagnostic  to assess global warming. The focus of our discussions by e-mail has been on the meaning of the term “heat in the pipeline”.  Len … Continue reading

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Nicola Scafetta Comments on “Solar Trends And Global Warming” by Benestad and Schmidt

On July 22 2009 I posted on the new paper on solar forcing by Lean and Rind 2009 (see). In that post, I also referred to the Benestad and Schmidt 2009 paper on solar forcing which has a conclusion at variance to that … Continue reading

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