Climate & Climate Change

CANBERRA, Australia: Four Australian governing party lawmakers rejected on Monday the idea that humans are causing global warming, the conclusion reached by their colleagues on a parliamentary committee. Read more here: Coalition MPs dispute … [Read more...] about Australia’s climate sceptic MPs

Last week the magazine Newsweek published a cover story on global warming suggesting global warming "deniers" were well funded, influential and unscrupulous. This week the magazine has essentially debunked its own story. Contributing Editor Robert … [Read more...] about Newsweek Editor Debunks Newsweek Story on Global Warming Deniers

The allegations by British mathematician Douglas J Keenan concern the following 2 papers co-authored by Wei-Chyung Wang, a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York: Jones P.D., Groisman P.Y., Coughlan M., Plummer N., Wang … [Read more...] about UK mathematician alleges IPCC Urban Heat Island fraud

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