Climate & Climate Change

The IPCC is intending to release its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) in three parts next year. Part 1 is likely to be launched in early 2007 and focus on the physical basis for climate change. Part 2 is likely to be released mid year and focus on … [Read more...] about More Confident & More Precise: Next Year’s IPCC Report

Coby, I accept that I should not have said [in my previous blog post, which can be accessed by clicking here] that well mixed GHGs "presumably have a similar warming impact in both hemispheres" (Figure 11 of Hansen et al, third map down in right … [Read more...] about More ‘Dumb’ Questions from Ian Castles

According to the New Zealand Herald: "A group of leading climate scientists has announced the formation of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, aimed at refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about man-made global warming. "We believe … [Read more...] about New Zealand Contrarians to Audit IPCC?

Climatologists at Duke University in the US have been running some simulations for the Northern Hemisphere and in their latest press release are suggesting that the higher range temperature scenarios are unlikely but nevertheless give a probability … [Read more...] about Lots of Temperature Ups and Downs Over Last Six Centuries: Gabriele Hegerl

Ian Castles commented earlier this evening that: According to the ‘passionate claim’ introducing this thread [C02 Drives Climate: Svante Arrhenius], "we have no alternative to the enhanced greenhouse effect, we have no alternative theory of … [Read more...] about Ian Castles on Unsatisfactory Explanations & Climate Modelling

"We have no alternative to the enhanced greenhouse effect, we have no alternative theory of atmospheric radiation, we have no explanation of the warming based on physically credible models, and we have no basis to believe the greenhouse effect … [Read more...] about C02 Drives Climate: Svante Arrhenius