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Global warming has been underestimated by HadCRU
Posted by coby on November 28, 2010 Oh boy, get out the tinfoil. Here’s one the conspiracy nuts will howl over. The temperature record that has been showing the lowest anomaly in the recent decades, HadCRU, the dataset managed by the UK’s Met Office and the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU), is about to be revised upwards.
Oceans Warmed In Recent Decades
Posted by coby on June 1, 2010 A new study came out in Nature a couple of weeks ago that assesses multiple records of ocean temperatures over the last couple of decades and finds that there is “a statistically significant linear warming trend for 1993-2008 of 0.64 W m-2″. The challenge the paper took on was one of assessing the uncertainties and inconsistencies in…
The Reef Tank
Posted by coby on April 21, 2010 A nice site about our blue planet’s blueness, The Reef Tank, asked to repost a recent ocean related article of mine and did so here. Always worth checking them out!
Another big problem with geoengineering
Posted by coby on October 29, 2007 Real Climate has a good post on geo-engineering and why it is only fitting as a final act of desperation, not a policy platform. It expresses very well all my own misgivings (it’s a terribly dangerous one-chance-to-get-it-right experiment on the entire planet, it commits the human race to centuries of climatic meddling, it will ultimately…