Climate & Climate Change

There are two articles of interest from a climate point of view in this week's Science magazine. The first is entitled: 'Large and Rapid Melt-Induced Velocity Changes in the Ablation Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet' by R. S. W. van de Wal et al. The … [Read more...] about Atmospheric CO2 Not So Scary – Wheel Out Ocean ‘Acidification’

I gather from listening to the BBC 7.00am news on the way to work, that Japan is claiming that the terms of the Kyoto Protocol were loaded against them. The 1990 baseline favoured the likes of the UK and Germany - the Germans closed old, dirty, … [Read more...] about Japan Complains about the Kyoto Protocol

The prediction of how much manmade global warming we will see in the future (as well as how much past warming was manmade) depends upon something called "climate sensitivity". For many years, climate researchers have struggled to diagnose the … [Read more...] about Global Warming for Dummies (Part 3)

It’s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: “2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis.” But it’s not true. And, for … [Read more...] about The UN IPCC ‘2500 Scientists’ Hoax

A new paper entitled: Does a Spin–Orbit Coupling Between the Sun and the Jovian Planets Govern the Solar Cycle? by Wilson et al has been published. The Abstract states: We present evidence to show that changes in the Sun’s equatorial rotation rate … [Read more...] about New Solar Paper Published by Australian Astronomical Society

Ryan Crompton and John McAneney of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia have an important new paper in the August, 2008 issue of the journal Environmental Science & Policy titled "Normalised Australian insured losses from meteorological hazards: … [Read more...] about Normalised Australian Insured Losses from Meteorological Hazards: 1967–2006