Climate & Climate Change

Following is the text* from a 'Special Climate Statement' entitled 'Climate conditions preceding the December 2006 southeast Australian bushfires'. The statement was issued on 19th December 2006 by the National Climate … [Read more...] about Climate Conditions & The December 2006 Bushfires in Australia

I received the following note* from Vincent Gray. He began by wishing us all "the compliments of the season" and then lauched into a discussion of mean global surface temperature records: The theory that "Climate Change" is caused by increases in … [Read more...] about Beware the Global Surface Temperature Record: A Note from Vincent Gray

Hi Jennifer, 2006 might be regarded as the year of climate change hysteria or perhaps the year where we had to get serious about attribution and what is and is not global warming. Certainly one could not help but notice various bouts of unseasonal … [Read more...] about Is Global Warming Cool: A Note from Luke

As 2006 draws to a close it is interesting to ponder the big issues and events from the past year. Along with the drought, bushfires, extinction of the baiji, 2006 will perhaps be remembered as the year of climate change hysteria. I think the movie … [Read more...] about No Anthropogenic Signal in Tropical Cyclone Record: An Inconvenient Truth (Part 5)

There have been calls for the sacking of the chancellor of British Columbia's Thompson Rivers University, Nancy Green Raine, after she suggested on a Canadian breakfast show last week that: "In science, there's almost never black and white. We don't … [Read more...] about Beware Global Warming: Two Days Before The Day After Tomorrow

GENEVA, 14 December (WMO) – The global mean surface temperature in 2006 is currently estimated to be + 0.42°C above the 1961-1990 annual average (14°C/57.2°F), according to the records maintained by Members of the World Meteorological Organization … [Read more...] about The Status of Global Climate in 2006: Press Release from the WMO