How would you explain the complexity and uncertainty surrounding climate change plus how we should respond (particularly with regards to CO2 emissions) in five minutes? Last week I served on a panel for a summer school in Canada for engineering students. They are working on the energy transition, and their Professor wanted [...]
From The Cliff Mass Weather Blog Last week we witnessed a major failure in science communication regarding the Northwest heatwave. A failure that misinformed you and millions of others, and a failure that highlighted glaring weaknesses in the media’s ability to cover important scientific issues. And it revealed the disappointing behavior of some members [...]
Original post of Ronald Stein can be viewed here Ancient tree stumps found under glaciers in Southeast Iceland are confirmed to be roughly 3,000 years old, RUV reports. A specialist believes the remarkably well-preserved stumps were part of a massive forest that disappeared after a long period of a warm climate. It is believed [...]
Comunicado de prensa de la Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL). Ensayo “El ensayo Desproporcionada Prisa Climática fue encargado por el Grupo ECR del Parlamento Europeo en Bruselas.” 13 de julio de 2021 El resultado económico óptimo se verifica con un calentamiento al 2100 de 3,5 grados Celsius. La mortalidad por condiciones meteorológicas extremas disminuyó [...]
Een bijdrage van Kees le Pair. Kees le Pair Nu zelfs in de publieke media wel eens wat twijfel opduikt aan de wijsheid kernenergie in de ban te doen, is het tijd voor rationele bezinning. En daarbij vooral de lange termijn in het oog te houden. Dat heeft dan vanzelf consequenties voor wat nu [...]
John Ledger (right) at the Katse Dam, Lesotho. Name: John Ledger Residence: Johannesburg Country: South Africa What is your background? I am primarily a biologist, having a BSc in Zoology and Botany (1964), a BSc Hons in Zoology (1965) and a PhD in Tropical Pathology (1976). I have had three different [...]
By Cliff Mass Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog During the past week, the Pacific Northwest experienced the most severe heat event of the past century. All-time high-temperature records were broken throughout the region, often by large margins. Many in the media, several local and national politicians, and some activist environmental scientists have [...]
In Part 1, we introduced the concepts of climate sensitivity to CO2, often called ECS or TCR. The IPCC prefers a TCR of about 1.8°C/2xCO2 (IPCC, 2013, p. 818). TCR is the short-term, century scale, response of surface temperature to a doubling of CO2, we abbreviate the units as “°C/2xCO2.” In these posts we review lower [...]
The IPCC claims, in their AR5 report, that ECS, the long-term temperature change due to doubling the atmospheric CO2 concentration or the “Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity,” likely lies between 1.5° and 4.5°C, and they provide no best estimate (IPCC, 2013, p. 85). But their average model computed ECS is 3.2°C/2xCO2. Here, “°C/2xCO2” is the temperature change [...]
Guest Post by Renee Hannon Introduction This post compares CO2 ice core measurements from Greenland to those from Antarctica over the last millennium. Paleoclimate studies typically use only Antarctic ice cores to evaluate past CO2 fluctuations. This is because the entire Greenland CO2 datasets were deemed unreliable due to chemical reactions with impurities in the ice and [...]
