Stating the Obvious
From the Environment News Service: Expect Warmer Than Average Weather This Winter Meanwhile, in other news, Sun Expected to Rise Tomorrow.
Archive of posts filed under the climate variability category.
Warner and Inhofe Do Something
Via NEI Nuclear Notes comes word that John Warner is going to challenge James Inhofe for the top R spot on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Perhaps Kevin can ‘splain this to us.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
The new winter forecast is out. El Niño’s still being a bit shy (“the coupling of the unusually warm SSTs near the date line with the atmosphere in the tropical Pacific has not yet become fully established” is the more technical description) but he’s definitely there.
The Moon Landing and Climate Change
John Quiggin threw down the gauntlet last week: Although both global warming denialists and moon landing denialists routinely accuse NASA scientists of fraud, the two groups appear not to have made common cause as yet (Please correct me if I’m wrong). Were that it were so, John. From someone called “gren” over at something called …
Yulsman on Broad
There’s been a great discussion over at Prometheus about a story last week in the New York Times by Bill Broad about atmospheric CO2 and paleoclimate. Given that it’s unlikely that very many people actually get 42 comments into a thread, I’ve pulled out my comment here so all three of Inkstain’s readers (hi Mom!) …
“first” freeze
Albuquerque had its first “official” freeze of the year this morning, with a low of somewhere around 29 at the airport this morning. At my house in town, we’ve dropped below freezing a bunch of times already (apparently I live in an urban cold island), but the airport is the place with a long and …
ENSO Update
The latest ENSO forecast is out. More of the same, expect El Niño to keep ramping up at least into early spring, odds favor season ski passes here where I live, but some bad shit elsewhere” Global effects that can be expected during November-March include drier-than-average conditions over most of Malaysia, Indonesia, some of the …
It Gets Worse
Now folks in Australia are talking (sort of) about a once-in-thousand-year drought: AUSTRALIA may be experiencing a one-in-a-1000-years drought, Prime Minister John Howard and the premiers were warned at the national water summit. The half-day meeting accelerated water trading plans and ordered emergency work to protect town and city supplies. The dire assessment of the …
Climate Change, Variability, and Darfur
A couple of things that crossed my virtual desktop recently highlight the difficulty of thinking well about the impacts of and responses to climate change and climate variability. The first is a story by Scott Baldauf from the Christian Science Monitor this morning: Is Darfur the first climate-change conflict? The second is a paper by …
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Save the Land
Agricultural practices are a key variable in whether we see an Australian dust bowl this year, according to a story this morning in The Age: Better farming practices and widespread de-stocking are likely to save Australia’s parched agricultural land from turning into a dust bowl, research suggests. But the drought – shaping as one of …