Climate & Climate Change

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’

"Many have criticised the scientific debate [on climate change] for becoming politicised – whether that be in terms of underplaying or overplaying the dangers presented by climate change – and this is an important issue to explore. But what has … [Read more...] about Digging Up the Roots of the IPCC : An Essay by Tony Gilland

The 2006 hurricane season ended on 30th November with the number of hurricanes that qualified as "major" - category 3 or above - 50 percent below NOAA forecasts and not a single hurricane made landfall. Hurricane Dean is the first for this 2007 … [Read more...] about 2007 Hurricane Season Begins with a Category 5

Hello Jennifer, My paper, “Rhodes Fairbridge and the idea that the solar system regulates the earth’s climate”** has now been published. Here is the link: http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/ics2007/pdf/ICS176.pdf I would be most grateful if … [Read more...] about Rhodes Fairbridge and the Idea that the Solar System Regulates the Earth’s Climate: A New Paper by Richard Mackey