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- Antarctic summer effect confined to peninsula Sat, 30 Mar 13, 3:00amFrom the British Antarctic Survey , at least they didn’t pull a Steig and try to claim the observed effect on the Peninsula affects the entire continent...
- New Report Shows Startling Connection Between Slowing Gulf Stream and Rising Sea Levels on the East Coast Fri, 15 Feb 13, 2:11amPhoto via Shutterstock Scientists project that on average, the world’s oceans will rise about 3 feet by 2100, putting low-lying areas in danger, contaminating water supplies and undermining roads, airports, port facilities...
- More on Black Carbon from Univ of Washington Thu, 17 Jan 13, 1:50amInternational study: Where there’s smoke or smog, there’s climate change By Hannah Hickey In addition to causing smoggy skies and chronic coughs, soot – or black carbon – turns out to be the number two contributor...
- A new paper showing how UHI and energy consumption are linked to long-term temperature change in China Wed, 3 Oct 12, 1:28amDr. Roger Pielke Sr. highlighted this major new paper in JGR yesterday, I consider it important as it relates to the works I’m doing on station siting. The key points of the paper are supportive of what I’ve ...
- Climate Models shown to be inaccurate less than 30 years out Wed, 19 Sep 12, 6:01amFrom the University of Arizona (h/t to WUWT reader Miguel Rakiewicz): A new study has found that climate-prediction models are good at predicting long-term climate patterns on a global scale but lose their edge when applied...
- Update on Watts et al. 2012 Fri, 3 Aug 12, 2:37amMy sincere thanks to everyone who has provided widespread review of our draft paper. There have been hundreds of suggestions and corrections submitted in comments and in email, and for that I am very grateful. That sort...
- Why the BEST papers failed to pass peer review Mon, 30 Jul 12, 3:51pmWhoa, this is heavy. Ross McKitrick, who was a peer review referee for the BEST papers with the Journal of Geophysical Research got fed up with Muller’s media blitzing and tells his story: excerpts: In October 2011,...
- Important New Paper on the Nocturnal Boundary Layer, Mixing, and Radiative Forcing as it applies to GHCN weather stations Fri, 13 Jul 12, 4:48amFrom Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. comes word of an important new paper that shows how the air near the ground (boundary layer) is highly affected by sensitive nighttime dynamics, which show up in the Tmin of weather station data...
- New paper shows negative cloud feedback associated with SAM Sat, 7 Jul 12, 6:42pmA paper published Friday in the Journal of Geophysical Research (GRL) finds that a known and natural atmospheric oscillation, the Southern Annular Mode or SAM, is correlated with observed increases in cloud cover resulting...
- New paper shows negative cloud feed associated with SAM Sat, 7 Jul 12, 6:42pmA paper published Friday in the Journal of Geophysical Research (GRL) finds that a known and natural atmospheric oscillation, the Southern Annular Mode or SAM, is correlated with observed increases in cloud cover resulting...
- New study demonstrates the role of urban greenery in CO2 exchange Thu, 28 Jun 12, 1:06amFrom the University of California – Santa Barbara In what might be the first study to report continuous measurements of net CO2 exchange of urban vegetation and soils over a full year or more, scientists from UC Santa...
- James Hansen’s climate forecast of 1988: a whopping 150% wrong Sat, 16 Jun 12, 2:00amFrom their Die kalte Sonne website, Professor Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning put up this guest Post by Prof. Jan-Erik Solheim (Oslo) on Hansen’s 1988 forecast, and show that Hansen was and is, way off the mark....
- Another solar study: this one suggests no significant solar influence Mon, 5 Mar 12, 7:01pmOn Saturday I posted about this study from Pierre Gosselin at No Tricks Zone: New Study Shows A Clear Millennial Solar Impact Throughout Holocene Now we have another that suggests little effect...
- An example of a different ethos when you have access to private documents Fri, 24 Feb 12, 4:43amWhile many websites are deriding me for my mentions in the Fakegate emails distributed by Dr. Peter Gleick, and many now (including Dr. Gavin Schmidt) are coming down on Dr. Gleick for his lack of ethics, I thought it might...
- Sea cucumbers: Dissolving coral reefs? Tue, 27 Dec 11, 4:44amFrom the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University comes word of this paper in JGR. Washington, D.C. — Coral reefs are extremely diverse ecosystems that support enormous biodiversity. But they are at risk. Carbon dioxide...