In 2006, in his famous documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claimed sea levels would rise by 20 feet (six metre). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is more conservative, suggesting a rise of no more than 0.60m by … [Read more...] about Sea Levels Can’t Rise by MORE than 2 Metres by 2100
Climate & Climate Change
Bill Kininmonth Requests Explanation of the Greenhouse Effect
Bill Kininmonth knows a lot about climate science, he is a meteorologist and he was the head of Australia’s National Climate Centre from 1986 to 1998. He is also a well known global warming skeptic and is particularly critical of the idea that the … [Read more...] about Bill Kininmonth Requests Explanation of the Greenhouse Effect
Second Attempt to Deny the Medieval Warm Period: New Paper by Michael Mann
In yesterday’s The Australian science writer Leigh Dayton claims that the northern hemisphere is hotter now than at any time in the past 1500 years. The article qualified her comment with this is “according” to the most comprehensive reconstruction … [Read more...] about Second Attempt to Deny the Medieval Warm Period: New Paper by Michael Mann
The Earth’s Climate is Tracking into Uncharted Territory: A Note from Andrew Glikson
Studies of Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles based on sediments and ice cores back to 640 000 years (640 kyr) document abrupt initiation of global warming and cooling events over short time scales of decades to a few years, implying extreme … [Read more...] about The Earth’s Climate is Tracking into Uncharted Territory: A Note from Andrew Glikson
August 2008: The first Sunspot-less Month since June 1913
In 1610 Galileo observed dark features on the face of the sun – sunspots. In the preface to a little book Galileo wrote on sunspots that was published in 1613, he was credited with having discovered sunspots but an Englishman, Thomas Harriott, and … [Read more...] about August 2008: The first Sunspot-less Month since June 1913
Greenland’s Ice Follows Dramatic Fall in Carbon Dioxide Levels?
According to a recent paper** published in the journal Nature, only a dramatic fall in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are able to explain the transition from the mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago, to the ice-covered Greenland of … [Read more...] about Greenland’s Ice Follows Dramatic Fall in Carbon Dioxide Levels?
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
