Climate & Climate Change

According to a report in The Australian, Labor plan to impose a ban on electric hot water systems from 2012, in favour of solar systems, in order to cut those ubiquitous greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full story here. … [Read more...] about Half of Australians to be forced to fit solar hot water systems?

Thanks to Luke Walker for alerting us to this story. Luke asks if this is controversial fiddling or good science? Graphic courtesy of NOAA GREENHOUSE GASES LIKELY DROVE NEAR-RECORD U.S. WARMTH IN 2006 Greenhouse gases likely accounted for more … [Read more...] about Another temperature adjustment makes 2006 second warmest to 1998 in the USA

Any reader not familiar with Milankovitch can read the Wiki write up here. I'd already considered posting this interesting new Nature paper entitled 'Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years,' so when … [Read more...] about New research supports Milankovitch theory of ice age cycles

For the first time a globally coherent solar cycle response to the surface temperature has been established. Charles Camp and Ka Kit Tung report in Geophysical Research Letters (DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030207) that global temperatures oscillated by 0.2C … [Read more...] about Climate sensitive to solar cycles and CO2 – a note from Luke

A recent paper by IPCC lead author Kevin Trenberth and Aiguo Dai: Effects of Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption on the hydrological cycle as an analog of geoengineering suggests that there would be adverse effects, including drought, as a result of … [Read more...] about Geoengineering not the answer to global warming – a note from Luke

As Hurricane Dean works its way through Mexico, we are reminded of the debate between those who link Hurricanes with global warming, and those who don't. Scientists Chris Landsea of NOAA and Greg Holland of UCAR find themselves on opposite sides of … [Read more...] about Hurricane ‘handbags’