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Water's climate risks show high temperature sensitivity

andyextance wrote 3 weeks ago: Like having a fleet of miniature research vessels, the global flotilla of more than 3,000 robotic pr … more →

Tags: Global Warming, precipitation, Drought, salinity, Modelling, Oceans, Science, News, Environment

Methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure

roberthurst wrote 1 month ago: Alvarez, Pacala, Winebrake, Chameides and Hamburg, “Greater focus needed on methane leakage fr … more →

Tags: Natural Gas, fracking, Energy, shale gas, Methane, natural gas production, methane leakage, Carbon, PNAS

Preview of CMIP5/IPCC AR5 Global Surface Temperature Simulations and the HadCRUT4 Dataset62 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 1 month ago: Guest post by Bob Tisdale INTRODUCTION As a preview of the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Clima … more →

Tags: ipcc, Modeling, Climate model, Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Met Office, World Meteorological Organization

Ramanathan and Almost-Black Carbon127 comments

Willis Eschenbach wrote 2 months ago: Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My thanks to Nick Stokes and Joel Shore. In the comments to my post … more →

Tags: aérosols, carbon soot, black carbon, Global Warming

Omitted variable fraud: vast evidence for solar climate driver rates one oblique sentence in AR5514 comments

Alec Rawls wrote 3 months ago: Guest post by Alec Rawls “Expert review” of the First Order Draft of AR5 closed on the 1 … more →

Tags: ipcc, solar, Climate, climate change, gcm, Global climate model, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, solar variation

Volcano cloud over tree-ring temperatures clears

andyextance wrote 3 months ago: Pennsylvania State University's Michael Mann thinks he has found the reason behind key outstand … more →

Tags: ClimateGate, Tree Rings, Global Warming, aérosols, Michael Mann, Trees, Temperature records, Modelling, Science

Sense and Sensitivity II - the sequel206 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 4 months ago: By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Joel Shore, who has been questioning my climate-sensitivity cal … more →

Tags: climate sensitivity, Modeling, Al Gore, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gas, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ipcc, pacific decadal oscillation, watt

Feedback about feedbacks and suchlike fooleries244 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 5 months ago: By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Responses to my post of December 28 about climate sensitivity h … more →

Tags: climate sensitivity, Al Gore, Climate sensitivity, Earth, greenhouse gas, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ipcc, watt

Tisdale schools the website "Skeptical Science" on CO2 obsession91 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 5 months ago: I Scream, you scream, we all scream about CO2 On the SkepticalScience Post “Pielke Sr. Misinforms Hi … more →

Tags: carbon dioxide, ipcc, FAA News, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, national center for atmospheric research, Pielke, Blog

Atmospheric GHG Break Record

feww wrote 6 months ago: Concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached record high in 2010: WMO The atmospheric … more →

Tags: global disasters, greenhouse gases, ATMOSPHERIC CO2, atmospheric N2O, 2010 Disaster Calendar, atmospheric methane, 2011 Disaster Calendar, CO2 at Mauna Loa, Greenhouse Gas Bulletin

Spencer finds "the Big Picture" on cloud feedback148 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 7 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I’ve Looked at Clouds from Both Sides Now -and Before by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. … more →

Tags: Spencer-Braswell and Dessler, Dessler 2011, Roy Spencer

1 K or not 1 K? That is the question191 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 8 months ago: By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I am very grateful for the many thoughtful postings in response … more →

Tags: climate sensitivity, Climate sensitivity, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ipcc

Monckton's letter to the journal Remote Sensing117 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 8 months ago: Christopher Monckton writes in email: I sent the attached commentary to the journal a week back and … more →

Tags: Peer Review, Spencer-Braswell and Dessler, greenhouse gas, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate sensitivity

New peer reviewed paper: clouds have large negative cooling effect on Earth's radiation budget315 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 8 months ago: Figure 3. (a) Short wave (SW), (b) long wave (LW) and (c) Net cloud radiative effect relative to cle … more →

Tags: clouds, Spencer-Braswell and Dessler, Atmospheric Sciences, climate change, Global Warming, negative feedback, Peer review 2, Radiative cooling, Remote sensing

Climate: The very basics

Marc wrote 8 months ago: I know, this is a biology blog. But, well, all organisms live on Earth and have always been influenc … more →

Tags: climate change, Global Warming, Climate change, Climate Science, Climate, albedo, greenhouse gas, greenhouse effect, climate forcing

Aerosol sat observations and climate models differ "by a factor of three to six"109 comments

Anthony Watts wrote 10 months ago: Fig. 4. Shortwave indirect forcing from the true modeled PD and PI values of Nc (Top), from the PI N … more →

Tags: aérosols, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Michigan College of Engineering

Pielke Sr. on Climate Science Myopia75 comments

News Staff wrote 10 months ago: By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. There is an article Global warming lull down to China’s coal growth by Richa … more →

Tags: carbon dioxide, aérosols, BBC, greenhouse gas, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Climate Change Basics - Gases, Forcing & Surface Temperature1 comment

weatherdem wrote 10 months ago: After running across some resources again recently, I thought it would be a good idea to put some po … more →

Tags: Global Warming, climate change, Global Temperatures, ipcc ar4, CO2 concentration

Our effect on the earth is real: how we’re geo-engineering the planet

fathertheo wrote 11 months ago: In Part 4 of The Conversation series, CLEARING UP THE CLIMATE DEBATE, Director of the Melbourne Ener … more →

Tags: Politics, climate change, Climate, Global Warming, CO2, Environment, carbon dioxide, Svante Arrhenius, geoengineering


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