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Crank down the volume NSIDC stunner: Arctic ice at 'Likely record-low volume'	Joseph Romm	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Looks like the Arctic may have set a record this year after all. The National Snow and Ice Data Center said today that Arctic sea ice volume likely hit a record low in 2008. They reconfirmed that the sea ice extent (or area) 'dropped to the second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979' and that 'Despite cooler temperatures and ice-favoring conditions, long-term decline continues.' But the big news was the announcement about ice volume, since that h ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, oceans (all these topics)

Nothing new under the sun New study finds sun's contribution to recent warming is 'negligible'	Joseph Romm	30 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Earth to deniers -- global warming is caused by human emissions, not solar activity. The Naval Research Laboratory and NASA report that, 'if anything,' the sun contributed 'a very slight overall cooling in the past 25 years.' D'oh! The study ($ub. req'd), 'How natural and anthropogenic influences alter global and regional surface temperatures: 1889 to 2006,' finds: Empirical models that combine natural and anthropogenic influences (at appropriate lags) capture 76 ...
Topics: scientific research, climate change impacts, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Gassing up the atmosphere Global carbon emissions jumped 3 percent in 2007	Joseph Romm	26 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The Global Carbon Project released its 'Carbon Budget 2007' [PDF] today. The report shows a continuation of the grossly unsustainable growth rate in CO2 emissions since 2000, which is nearly four times the growth rate of the 1990s: As reported by AP: ... it was large increases in China, India and other developing countries that spurred the growth of carbon dioxide pollution [3%] to a record high of 9.34 billion tons of carbon (8.47 billion metric tons) ... ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, climate change impacts, climate science, climate, IPCC (all these topics)

The more the climate changes, the more they stay the same U.K. Ministry of Defence: Global warming goes on, deniers are deluded	Joseph Romm	25 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The U.K.'s Met Office issued a blunt statement on Tuesday, 'Global warming goes on,' that begins: Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. The evidence is clear -- the long-term trend in global temperatures is rising, and humans are largely responsible for this rise. Global warming does not mean that each year will be warmer than the last, natural phenomena will mean that some years will be much warmer and others cooler. You only need to ...
Topics: United Kingdom, severe weather, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics)

A pain of a gas: Has runaway climate change begun? Methane releases from under the Arctic seabed could jeopardize GHG stabilization	Joseph Romm	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The U.K.'s Independent reported today some pretty shocking news in 'Exclusive: The methane time bomb': The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists ...The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic reg ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, Arctic, Russia, climate change impacts, climate science, climate (all these topics)

The deniers are winning, but only with the GOP Gallup polls indicate that Republicans are less likely to recognize global warming	Joseph Romm	20 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Turns out you can fool some of the people all of the time -- if those people are conservatives. I have previously argued as much here. Now Environment magazine has published an analysis that suggests the deniers are winning only with the GOP. This analysis should be especially alarming to scientists. Is global warming occurring? As Figure 1 shows, despite the steadily growing observational evidence that global warming has begun -- indeed that it is occurri ...
Topics: mainstream media, climate change impacts, climate science, climate, politics (all these topics)

NCDC August report: The end of global warming? Climate-wise, August was a pretty dull month	Joseph Romm	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Last month, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reported, 'the globally-averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was ... the ninth warmest for the January-July year-to-date period' (out of 129 years), as I reported here. The first seven months of the year were +0.45�C (+0.81�F) warmer than the 1961-1990 average. Now here's the shocking news. The NCDC just reported, 'the globally-averaged combined land and sea surface temperature ... ranked as the ninth w ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate science, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

The penultimate meltdown Despite cooler weather, Arctic ice retreat just misses last year's mark	Joseph Romm	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Although 'This year was cooler and other weather conditions weren't as bad' as last year, the Arctic sea-ice minimum came within 150,000 square miles of last year's record decline. This is clear evidence that last year was no fluke and that human-caused global warming has become a major -- if not the dominant -- driver of long-term Arctic sea ice decline, which in turn could rapidly accelerate the destruction of a livable climate. The National Snow and Ice Data ...
Topics: climate science, climate change impacts, Arctic, climate (all these topics)

Barking up all the wrong trees Oldest Utah newspaper: Bark-beetle driven wildfires comprise a vicious climate cycle	Joseph Romm	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Deseret News, owned by the Mormon Church and 'usually described as moderate to conservative' may have begun the slow march toward climate reality. A story this month titled, 'Bark beetles are feasting on Utah forests' begins: A vicious cycle is brewing in Utah: Bark beetles are killing a lot of trees in the state. Dead trees are fuel for wildfires, which experts say contributes to global warming. And climate change is now being blamed for an increased population of b ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate science, climate, severe weather, Utah (all these topics)

On the shrink of disaster Arctic shrinks by one Alaska and three Arizonas in August	Joseph Romm	09 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Another week, another record in Arctic ice-loss announced by the National Snow and Ice Data Center: Following a record rate of ice loss through the month of August, Arctic sea ice extent already stands as the second-lowest on record, further reinforcing conclusions that the Arctic sea ice cover is in a long-term state of decline. With approximately two weeks left in the melt season, the possibility of setting a new record annual minimum in September remains open. W ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate science, climate, oceans, Arctic (all these topics)

The tipping of the iceberg New sea-level rise research, part 1: 'Most likely' 0.8 to 2.0 meters by 2100	Joseph Romm	05 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Two major new studies, in Nature and Science, sharply increase the projected sea-level rise (SLR) by 2100. This post discusses the Science study ($ub. req'd), 'Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise,' which concludes: On the basis of calculations presented here, we suggest that an improved estimate of the range of SLR to 2100 including increased ice dynamics lies between 0.8 and 2.0 m. ... these values give a context and start ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, oceans (all these topics)

Kicking up a storm Nature: Hurricanes are getting fiercer	Joseph Romm	05 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Nature has published a major analysis that supports my recent two-parter. As Nature explains: ... scientists have come up with the firmest evidence so far that global warming will significantly increase the intensity of the most extreme storms worldwide.The maximum wind speeds of the strongest tropical cyclones have increased significantly since 1981, according to research published in Nature this week. And the upward trend, thought to be driven by rising ocean tem ...
Topics: climate, climate science, climate change impacts, severe weather, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Speak softly and carry a big hockey stick Earth hotter now than in past 2,000 years	Joseph Romm	04 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The 'hockey stick' graph is a reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere temperatures over the past thousand years. It showed a sharp rise starting about a century ago. Global warming deniers and doubters have long attacked the graph asserting that we were as warm if not warmer hundreds of years ago. But a 2006 National Academy of Sciences report largely reaffirmed the analysis. A new peer-reviewed study by climatologists and earth scientists Michael Mann, Zhihua Zha ...
Topics: climate change impacts, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate science, climate (all these topics)

I'll Huff and I'll Puff ... Warming seas make strong storms stronger, says new study		03 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 1:39 PM on 03 Sep 2008 As Gustav, Hanna, Ike, and Josephine become household names, more research has been added to the ongoing debate over the impact of climate change on hurricanes. A new study published in Nature indicates that warming seas have not increased the intensity of your everyday hurricane, but have made the mightiest storms even mightier. In essence, "if the seas continue to warm, w ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Typhoon Marys and cyclone Janes Why future Katrinas and Gustavs will be much worse, part 2	Joseph Romm	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
A lot of knee-jerk deniers (please don't write in -- I know that is redundant) misread 'part 1,' as I knew they would. I was not wading into the issue of whether global warming has already made intense tropical storms more common. That remains a great subject of debate, mostly because of the inadequacy of historical hurricane records, before the satellite era, and especially before WWII. That said, the North Atlantic seems special because much of the hurricane-formin ...
Topics: severe weather, climate change impacts, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Stormy weather Should environmentalists jump on climate disasters?	Glenn Hurowitz	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
There's a heated debate going on about whether environmentalists should jump on breaking climate disasters like Gustav and frame them in terms of global warming and other environmental issues. Open Left's Matt Stoller and Center for American Progress's Joseph Romm say yes, and 'anonymous environmental leader' says no (all are must-reads). In my recent book, Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party, I wrote about some research that might shed light on this question (th ...
Topics: politics, climate science, climate change impacts, severe weather, climate (all these topics)

Hurri-cane we stop these storms? Why global warming means killer storms worse than Katrina and Gustav, part 1	Joseph Romm	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Hurricanes can get much, much bigger and stronger than we have so far seen in the Atlantic. The most intense Pacific storm on record was Super Typhoon Tip in 1979, which reached maximum sustained winds of 190 mph near the center. On its wide rim, gale-force winds (39 mph) extended over a diameter of an astonishing 1,350 miles. It would have covered nearly half the continental United States. 'More than half the total hurricane damage in the U.S. (normalized for infla ...
Topics: oceans, severe weather, climate change impacts, climate science, climate (all these topics)

Henry Hudson would be delighted North Pole an 'island' for first time in 125,000 years	Joseph Romm	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The fabled Northwest and Northeast passages are now open. That makes the North Pole an island for the first time in human history, most likely for the first time 'since the beginning of the last Ice Age 125,000 years ago.' In the last few days, however, Arctic ice melt has slowed, so we might not see a record this year, as the NSIDC daily graph makes clear: But whether a record is set this year has little bearing on the future of the Arctic. The National Snow ...
Topics: oceans, climate science, climate change impacts, Arctic, climate (all these topics)

'Seven years to climate midnight' Brookings calls for action on climate change in WaPo op-ed	Joseph Romm	28 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The uber-centrist Brookings Institution joins the climate alarmist realist crowd. President Strobe Talbott and VP for foreign policy studies Carlos Pascual explain in a Washington Post op-ed: The world may have only seven years to start reducing the annual buildup in greenhouse gas emissions that otherwise threatens global catastrophe within several decades. The politics are a little bland for my taste, but that's to be expected from Brookings, which has moved cl ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The great melting spot NSIDC: Arctic shortcuts open up; decline pace steady	Joseph Romm	26 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Fresh from its Olympic-record in denier debunking, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has released a new update: Sea ice extent is declining at a fairly brisk and steady pace. Surface melt has mostly ended, but the decline will continue for two to three more weeks because of melt from the bottom and sides of the ice. Amundsen's Northwest Passage is now navigable; the wider, deeper Northwest Passage through Parry Channel may also open in a matter of days. The North ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

The 100-meter retract A new Olympic record for retraction of a mistaken analysis of NSIDC data	Joseph Romm	26 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The gold medal goes to Steven Goddard of The Register. On Friday, Aug. 15, he published a scathing article, 'Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered: There's something rotten north of Denmark' attacking the National Snow and Ice Data Center plot of Arctic Sea Ice Extent (below) that I and pretty much everyone else on the planet use. Based on some (mis)analysis too obscure for mortal men and women to follow, he concluded 'The problem is that this graph does not ap ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, scientific research (all these topics)

In hot water Ocean temperture levels indicate planet has kept warming since 1998	Joseph Romm	21 Aug 2008	Gristmill
As part of their climate myth series, New Scientist cuts through the nonsense on what's happened globally in the last decade: In fact, the planet as a whole has warmed since 1998, even in the years when surface temperatures have fallen.According to the dataset of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre (see figure, right), 1998 was the warmest year by far since records began, but since 2003 there has been slight cooling.But according to the dataset of NASA's Goddard Inst ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

At Least Buy Us All Umbrellas Science orgs plead for more funding for severe-weather preparation		21 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:30 AM on 21 Aug 2008 More floods, storms, and droughts are a-comin', and the U.S. lacks funding to predict and prepare for 'em, say eight scientific organizations. The groups, including the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society, made a plea Wednesday for Congress and the next U.S. president to double the current budget for climate research and forecasting between ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Climate whiplash	Andrew Dessler	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In a recent article in The New York Times, Andy Revkin talks about the whiplash effect: When science is testing new ideas, the result is often a two-papers-forward-one-paper-back intellectual tussle among competing research teams. When the work touches on issues that worry the public, affect the economy or polarize politics, the news media and advocates of all stripes dive in. Under nonstop scrutiny, conflicting findings can make news coverage veer from one extreme ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, mainstream media, scientific research (all these topics)

Climate forecast: Hot and then even hotter NOAA says July 08 was fifth warmest on record	Joseph Romm	18 Aug 2008	Gristmill
I know we're supposed to be going into a period of cooling, at least according to people who don't believe in the scientific method. For those who do however, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reports in its 'Climate of 2008 July in Historical Perspective': Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the fifth warmest on record for July and the ninth warmest for the January-July year-to-date period. It is worth ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

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