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All the blogosphere is abuzz with Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector. I don't have much to say that JA hasn't already said. But that isn't going to stop me saying it. Firstly they've done something very...
Posted on May 1, 2008 3:33 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, we knew that anyway, but there is some more stuff out on it, says the BBC: The Svensmark hypothesis is that when the solar wind is weak, more cosmic rays penetrate to Earth. That creates more charged particles in...
Posted on April 3, 2008 5:54 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Or nearly does, at least. It seems that the Wilkins ice shelf is hanging by a thread and bits are falling off. You'll have to forgive me for being late with this news, as I've been off in the Real...
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Posted on March 30, 2008 6:10 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Whether its post-IPCC-AR4 fatigue, or a foolish Michaelson-like assumption that we just about know whats going on, but things seem to be rather quiet on the climate front, in terms of real news and results. Which leaves people footling around...
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Posted on March 15, 2008 3:04 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, he says so himself: This is probably the most provocative hypothesis I have ever (and will ever) advance: The long-term increases in carbon dioxide concentration that have been observed at Mauna Loa since 1958 could be driven more than...
Posted on January 26, 2008 2:35 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've been putting off collating all the misc bets that came in. But here we go: $333 (ie about 3p :-() against Joe Romm on an ice-free Arctic by 2020. P Farrington-Douglas, E200, same terms. On next years Arctic sea...
Posted on January 24, 2008 4:48 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why is climate modelling stuck? asked mt, and Bryan weighs in too. So I don't see why I shouldn't too. This is no kind of comprehensive list or manifesto, the way mt's is. Just some random thoughts....
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Posted on January 16, 2008 4:18 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
People constantly get polar amplification wrong. The most obvious mistake is to assume it applies equally at both poles. It doesn't in both models and observations: there is far more warming in the Arctic (at present, and expected in the...
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Posted on January 5, 2008 10:09 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Everyone has their own spin on things, but its still not nice to be misrepresented, especially in support of someone elses agenda. RP Sr would like the 2003 heat wave to be unrelated to GW. It may well be; it...
Posted on December 11, 2007 9:56 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The issue of reconciling tropical temperature trends at the sfc and in the troposphere rumbles on, although in a not very serious way: its a good subject for research, but it doesn't seem to be a major septic playing point,...
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Posted on December 10, 2007 3:35 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Enough mawkish maudlin sentiment. Time to jump on the wackos again. This time its UnSciAm, who are foolish enough to publish a letter from Singer without fact-checking it first (I don't think you can blame Singer for getting his facts...
Posted on December 2, 2007 12:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When I was a wee mustelid, I wrote about this; and there is an RC piece, and as far as I know, its all still valid. But this post is aimed at those who put an "s" into poles in...
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Posted on November 26, 2007 9:35 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, the question was, how much effect does removing the Arctic sea ice make to the rest of the world? In particular, what is the direct effect, ignoring all the feedbacks that would occur on SST and so on? Happily,...
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Posted on November 21, 2007 10:12 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A pointer to The Real Truth About the Revelle-Gore Story because I came across refs to this just recently... where? Oops, sorry, Eli did it ages ago. Good....
Posted on November 9, 2007 1:12 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wild excitement, and local at that: A tidal surge in the North Sea has sparked severe flood warnings and evacuations on England's east coast. We shall see. [Update: it was a bust -W]...
Posted on November 8, 2007 5:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A point I had forgotten about the recent Canadell et al paper, which mt's recent post reminds me of: as he quotes (scroll down to the update): Ceci suggèrerait d'après eux que les feedbacks carbone/climat se produisent plus rapidement que...
Posted on November 5, 2007 4:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am a Dragon. I emerge from my Egg. More...
