Ice Sheet Loss Cut In Half
Friday, 27 August 2010 10:23
Doug L Hoffman, TheResilient Earth
Much concern has been raised by climate scientists regarding ice loss from the world's two remaining continental ice sheets. Rapid loss of ice-mass from the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica are cited as proof positive of global warming's onslaught. The latest measurements involve the use of satellite gravimetry, estimating the mass of...
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Have Disaster Losses Increased Due To Anthropogenic Climate Change?
Monday, 23 August 2010 13:51
Roger Pielke Jr.
The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has just put online a review paper (peer reviewed) by Laurens Bouwer, of the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam,titled, "Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change?". Readers of this blog already know the answer to this question, and...
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More Light On The Great Russian Heat Wave
Friday, 20 August 2010 07:57
World Climate Report
Last week we presented our analysis of the causes behind this summer’s record-breaking heat wave in western Russia.
We summarized the situation thus:
But global warming theory doesn’t come anywhere close to explaining why it’s so darn hot this summer in Moscow.
Long-term observations suggest a more basic cause—an unusual and...
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Indur Goklany: Global Death Toll From Extreme Weather Events Declining
Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:39
Indur M. Goklany
A Primer on the Global Death Toll from Extreme Weather Events — Context and Long Term (1900–2008) Trends
BackgroundBased on 2000–08 data, extreme weather events are responsible for about 0.05% of all global deaths (31,700 deaths vs. 58.8 million, annually). That is, despite the media attention to such events, extreme weather events have a...
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Heat Wave In Russia – Is It From Global Warming?
Saturday, 14 August 2010 08:30
Roger Pielke Sr.
There has been considerable discussion of the heat wave in Russia and of the floods in Pakistan and China as to whether these events are from global warming. Examples of this in the media include
Will Russia’s Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts? By Simon Shuster / Moscow
Climate change whips up floods, fire and ice by Brian Sullivan...
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The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010
Friday, 13 August 2010 11:32
World Climate Report
The longer and deadlier the heat wave in western Russia becomes, the more frequently it is being linked to anthropogenic global warming.
But global warming theory doesn’t come anywhere close to explaining why it’s so darn hot this summer in Moscow.
Long-term observations suggest a more basic cause—an unusual and unprecedented (at least...
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Antarctic Questions
Monday, 09 August 2010 17:54
Dr. David Whitehouse
It is said frequently that the climatic data for Antarctica for the past 30 years – the period for which records are far superior to previous times - shows clear signs of mankind’s influence. However, it is important to look at such changes in a historical context. This is important else we attribute any and every change seen in the past few...
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Erasing El Nino
Monday, 02 August 2010 15:16
Dr. David Whitehouse
The annual “State of the Climate” report for the previous year which is included as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorolgical Society was published recently. Responding to the various press releases issued about the report, written by NOAA, the news media said it was a clear example of accelerated global warming that...
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