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So Take Off All Your Clothes 2007 likely to be sixth warmest year on record, say researchers		28 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 28 Nov 2007 The year 2007 is likely to tie with 2006 as the sixth warmest year on record, say British researchers who provide data to the World Meteorological Association. The researchers had predicted a year ago that 2007 might be the hottest evah, but it's instead likely to come in behind 1998, 2005, 2003, 2002, and 2004. Hey, those are all so recent! Wonder if that means somethin ...
Topics: climate, climate science, news (all these topics)

Ice, ice, maybe (not) Must-see ice-sheet TV	Joseph Romm	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Do you want the latest data -- some not yet published -- and the best post-IPCC scientific predictions on the stunning collapse of Arctic ice and unexpected shrinking of the Greenland (and Antarctic) ice sheets? Then you should definitely watch this C-SPAN video of yesterday's American Meteorological Society seminar (see note on link below). The seminar is by three of the world's top cryosphere experts: Dr. Mark Serreze (NOAA), Scott Luthcke (NASA), and Dr. Konrad ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

OK, I'm demanding debate Search for local climate skeptic in Texas proves fruitless	Andrew Dessler	21 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Awhile back, I ran across the web site demanddebate.com (hat tip: Michael Tobis). The thrust of the website is that everyone should demand debate about climate change instead of gullibly accepting the Gore/alarmist view. Their slogan is, 'I'm more worried about the intellectual climate.' I am teaching a 'intro to atmospheric science' class and had been trying to find a skeptic to come talk to the students. So I hit the contact button on the web site and asked ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, Texas (all these topics)

What do we know about climate change? Contents of the IPCC Sythesis Report Summary for Policymakers	Andrew Dessler	18 Nov 2007	Gristmill
For those not familiar with it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up in 1988 to write periodic assessments of the state of climate science. Its goal is to produce policy-neutral reports that inform policymakers about the best thinking of the scientific community. These reports have tremendous impact on the debate, owing to the credibility of the IPCC process. The IPCC is actually split into three working groups. Working group 1 focuses on basi ...
Topics: climate, climate science, IPCC (all these topics)

Absolute must-read report IPCC says debate over, further delay fatal, action not costly	Joseph Romm	18 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In its definitive scientific synthesis report (PDF), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today issued its strongest call for immediate action to save humanity from the deadly consequences of unrestrained greenhouse gas emissions. This report -- signed off by 130 nations including the U.S. and China -- slams the door on any argument for delay and makes clear we must under no circumstances listen to those who urge that we wait (who knows how long ...
Topics: IPCC, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Museum meddling Republican war on science, edition MMCCCVIII	Brian Beutler	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Surprised? Some government scientists have complained that officials at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History took steps to downplay global warming in a 2006 exhibit on the Arctic to avoid a political backlash, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The museum's director, Cristian Samper, ordered last-minute changes to the exhibit's script to add 'scientific uncertainty' about climate change, according to internal documents and cor ...
Topics: politics, climate change skepticism, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Policy Academy 4: Citizens on Petrol IPCC to hammer out summary of climate science for policymakers		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:03 AM on 12 Nov 2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Valencia, Spain, to distill the panel's three massive scientific climate-change reports released earlier this year into a concise 25-page summary for the world's governments. Expect environmentalists and others concerned about climate-change's effects to lobby for strong language clearly spelli ...
Topics: climate, climate science, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

The other side of global warming We have plenty of solutions at hand beyond technology	Peter Donovan	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Today the dominant view of global warming is that it's a technical problem. The burning of fossil fuels -- often regarded as the lifeblood of modern economies -- puts greenhouse gases into the air, mainly carbon dioxide, trapping more solar energy, which heats the planet and alters weather patterns. Methane and nitrous oxide also contribute. The solution is defined as reducing greenhouse gas emissions (pollution). The political, social, and moral campaign is dire ...
Topics: climate, climate science, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Drying up A global trend toward drought	Maywa Montenegro	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill
A few months ago, I reported on the decade-long drought that's bedeviling Australia. In it I predicted -- with the help of experts such as Tim Flannery -- that climate skeptic John Howard would lose his seat to the Labor Party leader, Kevin Rudd, in this October's national elections. Rudd is running on a platform that includes $50 million for geothermal energy, $50 million for an Australian Solar Institute, and a 60 percent cut in CO2 emissions by 2050. And accordi ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

A nice rundown in layman's terms Physical chemist on climate change	JMG	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Turns out that my friend's brother is a physical chemist who has a lot of interesting things to say in response to the abrupt /cd548f8acf0efbe28525736900689456?OpenDocument'climate change modeling grant posting that the feds just put out. He sent this great rundown on how things look from his point of view: Yes, this has been going on for a while now, and it is for real. (I haven't looked at the link yet.) There are many possible non-linear effects which are only starting t ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Armenia and global warming Climate change signals in the Caucasus Mountains	Grist	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Eric Pallant, professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. He is reporting from the National Disasters and Water Security conference in Yerevan, Armenia. ----- October 20, 2007 The last time there was dramatic climate change in Armenia, Noah built an ark, floated for 40 days and nights, and disembarked on Moun ...
Topics: Armenia, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

Stossel	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Does John Stossel have the brains God gave a chicken wing? Most people say no. Some say yes. One thing's for sure: the debate isn't over!
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, movies (all these topics)

Everything But the Ocean Sink World's oceans sequestering less CO2 than expected		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 11:55 AM on 22 Oct 2007 The world's oceans appear to be sequestering far less carbon dioxide than one would hope, says a new study. CO2 soakage by the north Atlantic Ocean has lessened dramatically in the last decade. "The speed and size of the change show that we cannot take for granted the ocean sink for the carbon dioxide," says one researcher. What we can take for granted: a continuing slew o ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oceans (all these topics)

Are scientists losing the global warming debate? Delayers are replacing deniers	Andrew Dessler	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
There's been some hand wringing about the fact that science does not have the traction it should in the political debate over climate change. This is the genesis of the framing argument, most recently pushed by Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet. Basically, this thesis says that scientists need to put their scientific results into a 'frame' that allows the general public to better understand how to interpret their results. I've never particularly liked 'framing, ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, scientific research (all these topics)

It's getting hot in here 2007: A record-setting U.S. drought year	Joseph Romm	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) just issued its September report -- and the West and Southeast continue to scorch: About 43 percent of the contiguous U.S. fell in the moderate to extreme drought categories (based on the Palmer Drought Index) at the end of September. Here is the U.S. Drought Monitor (darker = drier): Here are some of the drought records being set around the country: Drought and mild temperatures have pushed Lake Superior ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Erring on the side of tabloidism The horrid misreporting on the case of the British judge and An Inconvenient Truth	David Roberts	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill
There are three things you're unlikely to learn from the mainstream media about the Case of the Nine Errors, wherein a British judge is said to have taken issue with the accuracy of An Inconvenient Truth. The parent who filed the suit, Stewart Dimmock, is a member of a far-right political group with ties to a leading U.K. skeptic group, the one behind The Great Global Warming Swindle.The judge rejected the lawsuit and called the movie "broadly accurate."The ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Bj�rn again Top climate scientist debunks Lomborg in the Washington Post	Joseph Romm	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The Washington Post has at least had the decency to run a rebuttal to the absurd Bj�rn Lomborg piece they ran on Sunday (also debunked here and here). They chose one of the top climate scientists in the country -- Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I count her a friend, having interviewed her for my book and having spent a couple of days in Florida with her giving joint talks -- she on hurricanes ...
Topics: climate, climate science (all these topics)

Beyond the worst-case scenario Level of GHG emissions may be much higher than predicted	John McGrath	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
There are those who argue that it's irresponsible or alarmist to argue that there will be any climate change effects beyond those cited by the IPCC. I wonder what they'll make of this: Worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate change expert. Tim Flannery told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that an upcoming rep ...
Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

It's the Heat and the Humidity Climate change will bring more humidity and heat-related deaths		10 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 10 Oct 2007 Climate change is increasing global humidity, according to a new study in Nature. If the globe heats as projected, air stickiness could increase globally by up to 24 percent by 2100. Says study coauthor Katharine Willett, "Although it might not be a lethal kind of thing, it's going to increase human discomfort." For a lethal kind of thing, we turn to a study ...
Topics: climate, climate science, New York City, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Lomborg skews the facts, again Sorry, glacial thinning does not equal glacial growth	Joseph Romm	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
On Sunday, Bj�rn Lomborg wrote: And while the delegations first fly into Kangerlussuaq, about 100 miles to the south, they all change planes to go straight to Ilulissat -- perhaps because the Kangerlussuaq glacier is inconveniently growing. But is it? I questioned this claim -- and asked readers for the relevant citation, which they provided. The key article from which he is drawing this claim is 'Rapid Changes in Ice Discharge from Greenland Outlet Glaciers' f ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Holes in the ozone theory What the ozone hole tells us about the science of climate change	Andrew Dessler	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The atmospheric sciences community is excitedly discussing new results that potentially cast doubt on our understanding of the chemistry of the Antarctic ozone hole. The ozone hole is formed when two molecules of chlorine monoxide react with each other to form what is known as the chlorine dimer, ClOOCl, and that molecule is subsequently blasted apart by sunlight to release the chlorine atoms. New results suggest that this reaction is actually much slower than previo ...
Topics: climate science, ozone, climate (all these topics)

Weird junior high debate cards republished The Heartland Institute accidently steals seventh grader's paper	JMG	03 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I got a weird mailing yesterday from The Heartland Institute: a little pamphlet titled 'Scientific Consensus on Global Warming: Results of an international survey of climate scientists.' Amazingly, there is a price list on the inside cover; this little gem could be yours for only $5.95. I looked all over the Institute's website but couldn't find the darn thing, until finally I thought to look under 'Books,' and lo and behold -- the 5' x 8', 23-page pamphlet was listed ther ...
Topics: climate science, climate (all these topics)

Another 'must read' from Hansen 'Long-term' climate sensitivity of 6 degrees C for doubled CO2	Joseph Romm	02 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The nation's top climate scientist is prolific: He has co-authored another important article: "Global Warming: East-West Connections" (PDF). And I'm not just saying that because he cites one of my articles. In fact, we've been having an email exchange and he strongly disagrees with me that it is too late, in a practical sense, to save the Arctic (and hence the polar bear). He believes strong and smart action now could work -- whereas I believe we need ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

A hoax based on a fraud Rush Limbaugh calls climatologist James Hansen a 'double agent'	Kit Stolz	29 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Earlier this week, the notorious Rush Limbaugh got in trouble for calling soldiers in Iraq opposed to the war "phony." Thursday he called the science of ozone depletion "phony" and the science of climate change "fraudulent." Limbaugh went on to accuse Dr. James Hansen, America's top climatologist, of being "dishonest," compared him to a "CIA double agent," and said he should be "drummed out of NASA." Does an ...
Topics: climate, climate science, James Hansen (all these topics)

Swift-boating James Hansen Hansen erroneously accused of predicting an ice age	Joseph Romm	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
After I heard a claim that our nation's top climate scientist "once warned of Ice Age" -- I (and no doubt many others) emailed Hansen and said he should reply to the rapidly morphing and spreading myth. He has here (PDF). I will reprint what he has to say below (you can also go to that link for an interesting commentary, "Please talk to your grandfather"): In 1976, with four colleagues, I wrote my first paper on climate (Science, 194, 685- ...
Topics: climate, climate science (all these topics)

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