Climate & Climate Change

There are several interesting climate related studies in this week's Science magazine. Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly Almost 6 years ago, a paper in Science warned of an unheralded environmental peril. Melted snow and ice … [Read more...] about A Round Up of Climate Studies from This Week’s Science Magazine: Greenland, Corals, and Phytoplankton

According to Nature, the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report will be out by 2014, IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri announced last week in Budapest. The report from the first working group will come out in 2013, however, so that … [Read more...] about UN IPCC AR5 Due in 2014

For 9550 years a Spruce has survived in the mountains on the Swedish landscape, Dalarna, bordering Norway. This means that this tree is the oldest known tree in the world. About 20 Spruces have been found in the mountain area that are over 8000 … [Read more...] about The World’s Oldest Living Tree Found in Sweden

There is very little justification for asserting that global warming has gone away over the past ten years, not least because the linear trend in globally-averaged annual mean temperatures (the standard yardstick) over the period 1998-2007 remains … [Read more...] about Waiting for Global Cooling: Robert Fawcett and David Jones

I have recently made a superficial analysis of temperature trends at York, Western Australia, the nearest weather station to my place at Gwambygine. York is approximately 100 kms inland from the Indian Ocean, on about latitude 32. The weather data … [Read more...] about The History of a Weather Station in Western Australia: Roger Underwood

Some recent stops on Gore's travel schedule: May 4, 2008--Ohio May 3, 2008--Philadelphia April 15, 2008--Geneva April 11, 2008--San Francisco April 8, 2008--Iceland April 5, 2008--Montreal March 18, 2008--New York March 15, … [Read more...] about Where’s Al?