Roger Pielke Sr., in a post about the climate models’ difficulties in getting clouds right, poses this question: How can international climate protocols, such as Kyoto, be established when the climate response to human climate forcings (and even natural forcings) is not adequately understood? The short answer is that we make decisions all the time, …
Gao et al. in a study this week in GRL modelling precipitation in Europe under increased greenhouse gases: Changes in extreme precipitation events and dry spells suggest not only shifts, but also a broadening, of the precipitation distribution, with an increased probability of occurrence of events conducive to both floods and droughts.
Lest readers of this blog think my only journalistic avocation is climate: LANL May Begin Building Nuke Pits By John Fleck And Michael Coleman Journal Staff Writers WASHINGTON— Federal officials on Monday proposed expanding nuclear weapons manufacturing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, part of a sweeping plan to develop new nuclear weapons for the first …
Some old literature I was reading the other night carried shades of Roger Pielke Sr.’s argument that land use changes are important to climate change: Notwithstanding the apparent uncertainty of the seasons, it is found that the mean temperature of particular localities is very constant, provided we compare observations made at different periods for a …
From Andrew Revkin’s story in yesterday’s Times: The Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion,” Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, “It is not NASA’s place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.” It continued: “This is more …
Everybody’s yammering about the warm January in the U.S., with the entire country seeing positive temperature anomalies (hat tip Mike Mann for graphic and discussion of global climate change implications of all this) If you look at the map linked above, you’ll see that Albuquerque, at 3.8 degrees F above average, is in a region …
In which my buddy Steve gets a blog.
I’m taking a class on drought from Dave Gutzler at UNM this semester. Last week’s topic was the strengths and weaknesses of the Palmer Palmer Drought Index, the widely used standardized measure of drought. It’s a graduate seminar, which last week meant me leading the discussion on Palmer. Since I did a bunch of work …
Forgive me, Dano, for again have I sinned.
I say this with the greatest affection. Jeff Bingaman is a wonk. From Cornelia Dean’s story in yesterday’s New York Times on a briefing on Capitol Hill attempting to explain what science is: (T)he briefing’s subject apparently struck a chord. More than 100 committee staff members, Congressional aides and at least one senator, Jeff Bingaman, …