Roger Sr. Returns
I am happy to note that Roger Pielke Sr.’s blog is back.
Archive of posts filed under the climate variability category.
Climate Change As Seen From Nairobi
Per capita income in Kenya is $1,200. Climate change does not currently rank high on the list of pressing concerns of the residents of Nairobi, according to a new study by Meleckidzedeck Khayesi and Chris Shisanya in the journal Climatic Change. The global concern about climate change appeared like a mere drop in the oceanic …
Did Climate Change Make Us What We Are Today?
Cleaning off my desk this evening, I found an interesting paper I’d printed and set aside to read weeks ago by Alison Smith in Holocene about the relationship between climate change and human evolution. Smith uses data from the human genome project on the timing of major bits of human evolution to argue that pressures …
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The Colorado River: Dwindling Under Climate Change
One of the disconnects between science as it’s practiced and science as it’s understood by the public is “the results of the latest study”. When we report on “the results of the latest study,” the public is likely to be left shouting: “But last week I though they told me coffee was good for me!” …
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Adaptation and Mitigation
There’s an exchange over at Prometheus that nicely illustrates the fundamentally linear face of the public climate debate, as so eloquently characterized by Andrew Revkin’s “pushmi-pullyu” metaphor. The example at hand is the Prins and Rayner paper in Nature last month laying out, in part, the argument for a fuller integration of adapation to climate …
Warmwatch
Official Albuquerque low today: 40. Two days from the record.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Dry Winter Edition
La Niña seems to be cranking it up.
This Morning’s Low: 37
This morning’s low temperature at the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque station was 37. As I wrote in this morning’s newspaper, we’re near the record for the latest first freeze of autumn. It’s been warm here, especially the overnight lows.
In Defense of Andrew Revkin
I was, by coincidence, in the midst of reading Bjorn Lomborg’s book this week when Andrew Revkin’s New York Times piece on the sloppy center came out. There is much to like about the book, and much to disagree with (more on that later, when I’ve finished it). But the most important thing is that …
Inexorable
Climate science is fun and all, but I think we pretty much know what we need to know at this point. I’m thinking maybe I need to start paying more attention to global energy economics: As China and India’s energy consumption grows, coal stands to make the largest gains from shifts in future fossil fuel …