Climate & Climate Change

"But we know that Linah Ababneh updated the Sheep Mountain data in 2002. We also know that Linah Ababneh’s update, aside from finding a difference between strip bark and whole bark chronologies, did not replicate Graybill’s results and had no HS … [Read more...] about Spot the Hockey Stick: Part 1

No one can deny that in recent years the need to "save the planet" from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our time. As Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, claimed in 2004, it poses "a far greater threat … [Read more...] about Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming — How Scares are Costing Us the Earth

Julia Slingo and Rowan Sutton of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading, have an interesting letter in this week's Nature magazine. They point out that this year's loss of … [Read more...] about Letter to Nature about Arctic Sea-Ice Decline

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