Climate & Climate Change

Readers may already have seen the ABC News story 'Big brown Asian cloud blamed for glacial melting.' This story is based on a new paper published in the weekly journal Nature, also featured in the News and Views section. The paper, which looks at … [Read more...] about Asian Brown Clouds

‘Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature’ There’s nothing really new in this paper, which is a review partly written in response to the controversial Wag TV documentary ‘The Great … [Read more...] about Lockwood and Frohlich, Part 2

It has become common practice in climate science for a press release reporting the findings of a new paper to precede the publication in the journal concerned. Thus, the Lockwood and Frohlich paper ‘Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate … [Read more...] about Lockwood and Frohlich, Part 1

Ilulissat, Greenland – The July 27-29 2007 U.S. Senate trip to Greenland to investigate fears of a glacier meltdown revealed an Arctic land where current climatic conditions are neither alarming nor linked to a rise in man-made carbon dioxide … [Read more...] about No Climate Crisis: A Note from Marc Morano in Greenland

The Intergovernmental Panel on Cllimate Change (IPCC) estimates pre-industrial levels of CO2 based largely on information derived from ice cores. These are kilometres long cylinders of ice drilled (in short sections) from the Greenland and Antarctic … [Read more...] about CO2 Record in Ice Cores Unreliable: A Note from Paul Williams

Check it out. It could be an interesting discussion piece. Helen "Dirty snow may warm Arctic as much as greenhouse gases" Helen is referring to Black Carbon, covered by Pielke Sr recently: A New Paper That Highlights the First-Order Radiative … [Read more...] about Dirty Snow – a note from Helen Mahar