Climate & Climate Change

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

Having seen Ian Mott's note on land change, I though I would post this paper suggesting that climate models and therefore the IPCC underestimate the effects of land use change on climate: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 112, D09117, … [Read more...] about Radiative forcing due to land use change in southwest Australia

I have previously posted comments about this paper, published in the Journal of Quaternary Science that provides evidence for the generally cooler period known as the Little Ice Age being a global phenomenon rather than being limited to the Northern … [Read more...] about The Little Ice Age in Australia

I came accross this paper in the latest edition of the Journal of Quaternary Science entitled: 'A pre-deforestation pollen-climate calibration model for New Zealand and quantitative temperature reconstructions for the past 18 000 years BP.' JQS … [Read more...] about 18,000 year temperature reconstruction for New Zealand

Apologies to those of an alarmist disposition, but I have an opinion piece published here on TGGWS, copied below. It is based on what I have written and posted here and elsewhere: Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) and Martin Durkin’s The Great … [Read more...] about Truth or Swindle?