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Re-visiting climate forcing/feedback concepts...
I haven’t been able to post much lately, so I just want to put in this post which outlines some of the basic radiative forcing and feedback physics which climatologists use to assess climate cha… more →
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Re-visiting climate forcing/feedback concepts...
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chriscolose wrote 1 month ago: I haven’t been able to post much lately, so I just want to put in this post which outlines som … more →
Tradeoffs and the next greenhouse gas
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chriscolose wrote 5 months ago: A fundamental issue with changes in atmospheric chemistry is that there may be multiple, and potenti … more →
Inaction is Inexcusable
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chriscolose wrote 5 months ago: First off, I apologize for my lack of posts recently… I’ve been busy and haven’t h … more →
Decadal scale coolings not all that unusual
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chriscolose wrote 7 months ago: Most people spending much time on the blogosphere are well aware of claims that “Global Warmin … more →
Lindzen on Climate Feedback
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chriscolose wrote 8 months ago: Update- Some changes over the last few hours Update2- Anthony Watts has contacted Lindzen for clarif … more →
Is methane a 'better' greenhouse gas than CO2?
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: The idea that methane is a more ‘potent’ greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is a popular … more →
Feedbacks, Sensitivity, and Practical application
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: The global, annual-mean surface temperature is the most widely used measure of climate change. In pa … more →
On the Arctic sea ice
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: Sea ice extent in the Northern Hemisphere has exhibited large and anomalous declining trends over th … more →
Is the atmosphere drying up?
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: A recent set of posts at Anthony Watt’s blog, particularly this one has sparked some interest … more →
Physics of the Greenhouse Effect Pt 2
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: In the preceding post, on the greenhouse effect, I investigated the role of the greenhouse effect an … more →
Physics of the Greenhouse Effect Pt 1
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: Jean Baptise-Fourier is generally credited with the discovery of a greenhouse effect, which involves … more →
just a few more molecules...
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: Greenhouse gases make up about a percent of all of the molecules in the atmosphere, and CO2 makes up … more →
Basic Radiative models/Earth's climate system analysis Pt. 3
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: From parts One and Two, we’ve discussed the TOA energy balance as well as the role of the gree … more →
Basic Radiative models/Earth's climate system analysis Pt. 2
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: From Part 1 we should be able to calculate the energy balance of a planet, and should be able to cal … more →
Basic Radiative models/Earth's climate system analysis Pt. 1
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: I thought I would work backwards a bit and go over some of the basics of radiative transfer/balance … more →
The Scientific Basis for Anthropogenic Climate Change
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chriscolose wrote 1 year ago: The Scientific Basis for Anthropogenic Climate Change Note* The graphs that appear here can be click … more →
"We strongly agree with the IPCC reports and support its conclusions" - US Chief Scientist
inel wrote 2 years ago: Bush aide says warming man-made By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst, BBC News Professor John Marbu … more →
