Climate & Climate Change

Science, 10th August 2007 News Focus CLIMATE CHANGE: Humans and Nature Duel Over the Next Decade's Climate Richard A. Kerr Rising greenhouse gases are changing global climate, but during the next few decades natural climate variations will have a … [Read more...] about ‘Scrambling’ to factor in natural climate variability

Rural climate change sceptics shock kayaker From ABC Rural Thursday, 09/08/2007 A man paddling and pulling his kayak from Brisbane to Adelaide to promote the need for action on climate change says he is disappointed with the sceptical nature of … [Read more...] about Sceptics shock kayaker

An interesting new paper has been published: Spencer, Roy W.; Braswell, William D.; Christy, John R.; Hnilo, Justin (2007) Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intraseasonal oscillations Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34, No. 15, … [Read more...] about Cooling clouds – a note from Marc Morano

This article is from The Times (London). Not sure what to make of this, other than perhaps a 'green' attack on meat eating: Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’ Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a … [Read more...] about Save the planet – drive to the shops!?

Thanks to Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts, 1998 is no longer ranked as the warmest year on record in the USA, due to the correction of a significant error. That honour now goes to 1934. More here at ICECAP Roger Pielke Sr also has a post about … [Read more...] about And the winner is……1934

A hat-tip to Walter Starck for alerting us to this article from The Australian "THE head of the world's leading climate change organisation has backed the Howard Government's decision to defer setting a long-term target for reducing greenhouse … [Read more...] about A note of caution from the IPCC chairman