Climate change:
In a few other posts about the changing Congressional landscape for climate in wake of the November midterms, I identified Rep. John Dingell (MI), the incoming chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as a major potential roadblock to...
Posted on December 20, 2006 7:03 PM • 8 Comments
that James Annan and Julia Hargreaves got
thoroughly screwed by Geophysical Research Letters. You can read James' recounting of his editorial treatment there, and WC's take
here.
My FWIW is this: I've reviewed plenty of papers, a few for GRL.
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Posted on December 20, 2006 5:51 PM • 4 Comments
I realize that many of you will disagree with the notion that we are overplaying our hand, or are not giving full voice to our uncertainties. I'm not sure the answer to this question myself. But I write all this because I sense a sea change in attitudes amongst climsci people that I know as good scientists without agendas. These are solid scientists, and some told me in no uncertain terms that we are not giving full voice to uncertainties; others implied as much. Therein lies the tension.
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Posted on December 20, 2006 1:32 PM • 39 Comments
What does this mean? It is further evidence that the train is leaving the station and that the smart ones are jumping on early before that thing is running fast. It also means Congress is even more likely to pass something significant on GHGs in the 110th session (with or without a veto threat). With that veto looming, though, let's expect something in the 111th session.
Posted on December 19, 2006 2:58 PM • 7 Comments
Seen first on Mr. Fleck's blog. Senator John Warner (R-VA) is challenging Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) for the Ranking Member spot on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee when the 110th Congress convenes in January. But Mr. Inhofe is not...
Posted on November 20, 2006 1:56 PM • 5 Comments
Wasn't it just yesterday that I wrote this post? Via Mr. Fleck, hot off the presses, a release from Senator Boxer's office: Boxer, Bingaman and Lieberman Ask President to Commit to Working with Congress to Fight Global Warming Wednesday, November...
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Posted on November 15, 2006 5:05 PM • 4 Comments
For science policy, the biggest issue that Congress will deal with for the next year to year and a half is climate change. There will be other issues (stem cells and the ESA might come up), but climate change is...
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Posted on November 14, 2006 11:00 AM • 8 Comments
I can hear your little minds whirling. "If the Democrats take back Congress, why, why, why that means that science will be respected again!" Right. Here are some things to look for in the 110th Session. One big "problem" (if...
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Posted on November 6, 2006 12:58 PM • 7 Comments
Only three abstracts to bring out from last week's AGU email alerts, but one is a gem. 1- Infrasound events detected with the Southern California Seismic Network by E.S. Cochran and P.M. Shearer of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Just a...
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Posted on October 13, 2006 4:02 PM • 4 Comments
Yesterday I posted two Journal of Climate papers, one of which addresses whether anthropogenic influences are a noticeable and/or important forcing mechanism on the thermohaline circulation. That prompted John to make the following observation (which he had already made here...
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Posted on October 5, 2006 12:13 PM • 5 Comments
Yesterday I was in the midst of putting together the latest abstract roundup of the AGU journals when I muffed it up. For now, two new Journal of Climate papers caught my eye: 1- Is the Thermohaline Circulation Changing? by...
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Posted on October 4, 2006 12:42 PM • 6 Comments
There's an article in yesterday's Daily Camera that starts off like this: If global warming brings serious droughts to Colorado in the next century, Boulder's water planners don't want to be caught off-guard. Boulder is one of the first communities...
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Posted on September 26, 2006 11:19 AM • 3 Comments
As I said in the last post, I have a lot of abstracts backlogged right now, so I'm splitting the breakdown into a few different posts. Now for the general climate change papers: Fate of rising methane bubbles in stratified...
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Posted on September 18, 2006 5:41 PM • 1 Comments
I have a lot of abstracts backlogged right now, so I'm splitting the breakdown into a few different posts. First, the hurricane battles continue: Evidence in support of the climate change-Atlantic hurricane hypothesis by James B. Elsner of Florida State....
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Posted on September 18, 2006 5:22 PM • 0 Comments
"The British Council USA, in partnership with American University and SeaWeb/COMPASS, is pleased to present a dyanmic international workshop "Communicating Climate Change: Science and Media Networking for the Future." Participants will learn how to effectively communicate complex climate change science...
Posted on September 18, 2006 1:12 PM • 0 Comments
'Tis a crying shame that AGU moneywalls articles in their flagship newsletter Eos because Barrie Pittock of CSIRO publishes a good article in the 22-Aug issue (AGU's delivery mechanism is often a few weeks behind for me). The best non-AGU...
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Posted on September 5, 2006 7:46 PM • 3 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
