global warming
tlambert | August 11, 2011The Sunday Age plans to investigate the top ten questions on climate science and policy as voted on OurSay. Not suprisingly Andrew Bolt and company have freeped the poll. This made The Australian's Cut and Paste very excited:
Top question so far (961 votes):
The very point of Australia's carbon tax is to reduce global warming. How much will reducing 5 per cent of Australia's about 1.5 per cent contribution of global CO2 emissions reduce global temperature by?
Actually, that's not the question. Cut and Paste truncated it. It continues:
If the amount is negligible (which it is), then given…
illconsidered | August 8, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...August 7, 2011 Autobahn Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Monnett, Shell & Nigeria A Good Question, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Funder et al., Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Land Grabs, Food Production Hurricanes,…
tlambert | August 4, 2011A talk by Macquarie University's Murry Salby where he opines that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is natural is gaining some attention. (See, for example, Gavin Schmidt, Judith Curry, and Things Break). Unfortunately, we just have the audio and Salby has not responded to my request to provide the slides from his talk, so I've used a graph from Open Mind to illustrate this post.
A graph like the one below is Salby's key argument. It compares the annual change of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (black line) with anthropogenic emissions (the red line is 55% of emissions). Salby observes…
tlambert | August 4, 2011John Mashey and Rob Coleman have a guest post at The Chronicle of Higher Education's blog replying to Peter Wood's hit piece.
Wood's article misused the platform of CHE. Its relevance to the concerns of CHE was minimal. It had little purpose but to damage the reputation of one of us, John Mashey, and the climate scientist Michael Mann, whom Wood has often denigrated elsewhere. The political false-association tactics were obvious. Climate scientists are under incessant attack, a fact strongly decried the day before Wood's article by the AAAS Board. The muddy battlefield of blogs and media has…
illconsidered | August 1, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJuly 31, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, DeChristopher, Monnett, BTI, Black Subsidies, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, POPs & Toxics, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Corps, Food Banks, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production…
gregladen | July 29, 2011Relying heavily on the excellent resource known as Dr. Jeff Master's Wunderblog and a few other sources, I've compiled a quick list of a few of the highlights of weather events related to global warming in the news these days, in preparation for this weekend's radio show "The Science of Global Warming: Science V Denialsim" on Atheists Talk #126, with Kevin Zelnio and John Abraham.
Here goes:
In recent months we have experienced the largest fire on record in Arizona, the largest fire in the history of New Mexico, the most extreme precipitation in the US ever, the hottest day in hell aka the…
gregladen | July 29, 2011According to a newly published paper in the journal "Remote Sensing" the Earth's atmosphere releases into space more heat than climate scientists had previously estimated in a way that effectively removes concern about fossil CO2 being released into the atmosphere.
The reason scientists have this wrong, according to the article's authors, Roy Spencer and William Braswell, is that climate scientists use a fundamentally flawed model of atmospheric heat dynamics and radiation of heat from the surface of the climate system into space. The senior author, Spencer, has previously argued that…
gregladen | July 26, 2011Somewhere around 1990 I wrote an article for a monthly paper on global warming. My intention was to explain the idea behind it (the greenhouse phenomenon) and to make clear the distinction between depletion of the ozone layer and greenhouse effects (the two were getting confused on a regular basis in those days). The reason I mention this is that there was virtually nothing in that article that would not pertain today, and other than the addition of piles and piles of data, there has been almost no change in the science of greenhouse effects that has occurred since then. And by that, I…
illconsidered | July 26, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomJuly 24, 2011 Autobahn, Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, BBC Trust, Geoneutrinos Bottom Line, GFIs, Open Access, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production…
illconsidered | July 22, 2011Did you ever wonder just how it can be possible that the same, thousand times debunked, climate "skepticisms" keep re-emerging, month after month, year after year? Obviously, there are those individuals (like Singer and Soon), organizations (like HeartlessLand), and media outlets (like Faux News) who deliberately lie and misinform with no concern for scientific or journalistic ethics whatsoever, but how is it they are so successful?
Well, it seems simple human nature, of the sort the most earnest and conscientious of us all possess, lends itself to being deceived by whomever yells loudest,…
tlambert | July 20, 2011The Smith School at the University of Oxford has released a report on international efforts to address climate change. Australia is rated "Poor".
Figure 1 - A map of countries of the world rated in terms of national actions and commitments on climate change. Annex I countries are rated based on submissions pertinent to the Cancun Agreements.
'Very good': meet IPCC recommendations, Annex I: 25 - 40% reduction by 2020, Non-Annex I: submitted NAMA, 15-30% below BAU by 2020, or vocal in pressing for action.
Those countries not participating in the UNFCCC process are coloured grey.
Via Desdemona…
illconsidered | July 18, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJuly 17, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, African Famine, WikiLeaks, Death Threats Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook, WESS Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Carbon Cycle,…
tlambert | July 15, 2011Another scientist got a death threat a couple of days ago. This time it was Hans Schellnhuber. The Australian reports:
Anger against scientists involved in the climate debate is reaching dangerous levels and it's only a matter of time before one is murdered, says leading German physicist Hans Schellnhuber. ...
While he was opening a recent climate conference in Melbourne, a man in the front row waved a noose at him. "I was confronted with a death threat when I gave my public lecture," Professor Schellnhuber said.
"Somebody got to his feet and showed me a rope with a noose.
"He showed me…
tlambert | July 12, 2011You know the paper in PNAS by Kaufmann et al that found:
that recent global temperature records are consistent with the existing understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors with well known warming and cooling effects.
Here's what John Spooner, cartoonist from The Age felt it showed:
"Sulphide [sic] emissions from Chinese coal fired power might be causing
global cooling"
"Global cooling should make the carbon tax and ETS redundant"
"There seems to have been no increase in aerosol…
illconsidered | July 11, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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tlambert | July 10, 2011Good news! I'm still able to post -- Australia has not returned to the Stone Age. A few links:
Key points of the carbon price package
Frank Jotzo: popular tax cuts and a carbon price that just might deliver
Roger Jones
John Quiggin
Larvatus Prodeo
Gareth Renowden.
The carbon tax alarmists are now not arguing that the tax will destroy the economy, but that it won't do anything.
Update Greg Jericho
illconsidered | July 7, 2011I have been remiss in not bringing this excellent resource to the attention of AFTIC readers earlier. From the invaluable Skeptical Science website comes a brilliant interactive history of climate science.
Any comments on the choices for classification? I think it over counts skeptic and neutral papers.
sastyk | July 4, 2011Almost all conversations with every other parent of late includes "Have you read Go the Fuck to Sleep yet? Have you heard Samuel Jackson read it?...." It is safe to say that the book touches a nerve. And it is extraordinarily funny, and it does evoke precisely the reactions that most of us have trouble acknowledging publically. We all have to ruefully acknowledge that we see some part of ourselves in this - the book is about those parenting failures that are hard to speak about but part of our lives.
It is, all in all, an awesome book, and precisely the sort of thing I wish (and I suspect…
illconsidered | July 4, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsJuly 3, 2011 Chuckles, G20, State of the Climate, Threats, The Conversation Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFI, Psyche, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs,…
illconsidered | June 27, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...June 26, 2011 Chuckles, Bonn, COP17+, G20, IPSO, The Conversation, Threats Bottom Line, Subsidies, Psyche, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Fauna, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Prices, Riots, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production…