Climate & Climate Change

I received the following note from Warwick Hughes: The 20th anniversary of Jones et al 1986 seems a good time to assemble all available reviews of these IPCC cornerstones that slipped under the radar of science. I have just … [Read more...] about An IPCC Cornerstone, 20 Years Old

Rita hit the US mainland (near Port Arthur, Texas) as a category 3 hurricane last night. This will put Rita in the US National Hurricane Centres 'major hurricane' category. It is starting to really look like there has been a recent significant … [Read more...] about Climate Change

According to this map, at the time of writing this post, there are 5 hurricanes in the West Pacific, Central Pacific and North Atlantic. When Dennis struck in July, I followed its path at Jeff Master's blog. He is now following Hurricane Rita and … [Read more...] about Another Hurricane

A reader of this weblog sent in the following link to a column by David Suzuki published in Canadian newspapers: ...Katrina, it seems, was just a convenient excuse to get the same tired "Global warming isn't happening, and if it is it has nothing … [Read more...] about Suzuki on Katrina

According to Opposition environment spokesman Anthony Albanese the latest issue of science journal 'Science' provides, "A scientific basis for what the Government was told in its climate change risk and vulnerability report just two months … [Read more...] about Now Scientific Basis for Climate Change?

With all the concern about global warming resulting in more deaths due to climate-related disasters, I thought I would see if I could find some statistics on the subject. Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of … [Read more...] about Deaths Due to Climate-Related Disasters