Climate & Climate Change

It's normally associated with copious rainfall, but this time around, La Nina has failed to deliver. While the east coast of Australia has received some rain over the last few months, inland Australia has missed out. It's a very unusual event, and … [Read more...] about La Nina Fails to Deliver

Dear Jennifer, I have been wondering what thoughts you may have on the NSW state governments stance on global warming and their seemingly contradictory actions of tying 2 or 3 million dollars of fireworks to the Sydney Harbour Bridge each New Year … [Read more...] about How Much Warming from Fireworks? A Question from Trevor Devine

There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and understanding the extraordinarily complex climate system that we are skeptical of our ability to know what it is doing and why. As we build climate data sets from scratch and … [Read more...] about 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner No. 2498 – John Christy

It was hilarious seeing Kevin Rudd give a press conference on renewable energy at a Townsville school on Tuesday, when the wind and solar batteries failed and plunged the room into darkness. The media questioning continued, but under the thin light … [Read more...] about Rudd in the Dark as the Lights go Out – An Omen for the Future?

October, 2007 RESEARCH UPDATE: We have submitted a research paper to the Journal of Climate in which we used a simple climate model to demonstrate how natural climate variability in temperature and clouds can be mis-diagnosed as positive feedback … [Read more...] about Variability in Temperature and Clouds can be Mis-Diagnosed as Positive Feedback – Roy Spencer

My attention was drawn to a Working Paper by Alan Carlin (1) which was basically about how emissions reductions may be a dangerous strategy to avoid climate change. Much of his perceived threat is based on papers by Hansen (2007) and others who … [Read more...] about The Greenland-Antarctica Melting Problem Does Not Exist – Cliff Ollier