Was it Drought?
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Archive of posts filed under the climate variability category.
Climate Change
From the comments, jfs says: I think the global warming nonsense the commenter is refering to is not that fact that temperatures are increasing, which is what you cite in your links, but that the increase is not part of some natural climatic cycle…. The commenter raises a great question. Given the relatively short time …
Comment of the Day
Today’s comment of the day, a helpful observation from Joe: Still trying to push that global warming nonsense…huh? Just too bad the facts don’t support it. Thanks, Joe! This’ll save me a lot of time and trouble. Now, if you could just help me clear up some loose ends….
More on Jefferson on Climate
A commenter sent me off in pursuit of the Thomas Jefferson climate change quote, with good results. The full text is here (search on “Beck”, second occurrence), a July 16, 1824 letter from Jefferson to one Lewis Beck, who had apparently sent Jeffeson something he had written on the climate of the west. The quote …
Stink Bugs in London
Stink bugs are showing up in London, another global warming clue. But the real fun here is the source of the research – Max Barclay, who is described in the stories as curator of beetles at the Natural History Museum in London. How cool a title is that?
Greenhouse Warming + Urban Heat Island
There are a couple of news reports out about a new Hadley study on the synergistic effects of greenhouse warming and the urban heat island. The urban heat island effect, often used by skeptics to discount global warming data, is the very real effect in which all that pavement, buildings and other thermal mass that …
Jefferson on Climate Change
Reading Mickey Glantz’s Climate Affairs, I ran across this odd reference to what appears on first blush to be Thomas Jefferson’s great insight into the effects of humans on climate. It quotes an 1824 letter in which Jefferson writes that climate surveys “should be repeated oce or twice in a century to show the effect …
Scientists Wise Up
A scientist grasping the distinction between fiction (the new “Day After Tomorrow” climate porn film) and realty, and respecting the public’s intelligence to do the same: “My first reaction was, ‘Oh, my God, this is a disaster because it is such a distortion of the science. It will certainly create a backlash,’ ” said Dan …
Climate and National Security
My story on climate change and national security ran in this morning’s paper. It gave me a chance to take a stab at explaining the idea of “no regrets” policies – climate change responses that are robust to the endless and apparently unsettleable argument in our political arena over the nature and causes of climate …
Water Vapor and Climate Change
More stuff I wrote elsewhere, from today’s Albuquerque Journal, one of those straightforward pieces of climate change research that has the potential to narrow the uncertainty in the models: A New Mexico researcher hunting for water vapor in the upper atmosphere has found less than expected, suggesting global warming may be less than some predictions. …