Climate & Climate Change

As a result of the recent budget, the Rudd government will be spending $2.3 billion over five years to "tackle climate change by reducing emissions, adapting to change and helping Australia play a leadership role." An Australian climate realist … [Read more...] about The Wong Numbers

The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the journal Nature. Science Daily: Amazon Under Threat From Cleaner Air Report: CO2 from … [Read more...] about Climate Tidbits

"The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they rain, they flood, but seldom do they … [Read more...] about We Live in an Electric Universe (Part 2) by Louis Hissink

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising far faster than in other parts of the world. Climate models produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are tuned to reproduce the human-made greenhouse effect, predict the region … [Read more...] about A Potential Role for Arctic Currents in Global Warming

One of the basic working rules in empirical science is the Donald Duck Factor, that when something novel looks, waddles and sounds like a duck, then in all probability it might also be a duck, or at least of the same species. And when a similar … [Read more...] about We Live in an Electric Universe (Part 1) by Louis Hissink

The once-green Sahara turned to desert over thousands of years rather than in an abrupt shift as previously believed, according to a study on Thursday that may help understanding of future climate changes. And there are now signs of a tiny shift back … [Read more...] about Sahara Became Dry Slowly, Not Abruptly