I’ve been watching the Climate Show since episode one and it just keeps getting better. This show is produced in New Zealand and they usually have a guest climatologist on the show. This week it’s Professor Jason Box, a prominent Greenland expert. Well worth watching: http://hot-topic.co.nz/the-climate-show-7-box-and-boxsters-the-cryosphere-special/
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Latest GRACE data: record ice loss in 2010
The GRACE satellites continue to measure the change in gravity around the Greenland ice sheet. Here is the latest data showing the record amount of ice loss Greenland experienced in the 2010 summer. H/T to Tenney Naumer from Climate Change: The Next Generation and Dr John Wahr at the University of Colorado who analysed the GRACE data and granted permission to reproduce it here. Figure 1: Greenland ice mass anomaly – deviation from the...
Rising Seas Look Inevitable – ScienceNOW
Rising Seas Look Inevitable – ScienceNOW. It may be too late to stop the seas from eventually rising and flooding Earth’s coastlines. Even if humans manage to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions completely by the year 2100, ocean warming set in motion by the end of this millennium could trigger the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and flood New York City, Hong Kong, and other coastal cities, a new study suggests....
The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism – Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science has just released this superb and easy to understand PDF document on the evidence for AGW and the poor arguments presented by the so-called “climate skeptics”. ————————– The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism Scientific skepticism is healthy. In fact, science by its very nature is skeptical. Genuine skepticism means considering the full body of evidence before coming to a conclusion. However, when you take a close look at arguments expressing climate...
A stunning year in climate science reveals that human civilization is on the precipice « Climate Progress
The first anniversary of ‘Climategate’, Part 1: The media blows the story of the century November 15, 2010 This week marks the one-year anniversary of what the anti-science crowd successfully labeled ‘Climategate’. The media will be doing countless retrospectives, most of which will be wasted ink, like the Guardian’s piece — focusing on climate scientists at the expense of climate science, which is precisely the kind of miscoverage that has been going on for...
A detailed look at climate sensitivity
September 19, 2010 The amount of warming we are going to subject our children and countless future generations to depends primarily on three factors: 1. The sensitivity of the climate to fast feedbacks like sea ice and water vapor (how much warming you get if we only double CO2 emissions to 560 ppm and there are no major “slow” feedbacks). We know the fast feedbacks are strong by themselves (see Study: Water-vapor feedback is...
USGS report: Asian glacier retreat, driven by climate change, “increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas”
From Climate Progress: Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas, and contributes to sea-level rise. Talk about your well-timed studies — see “One-fifth of Pakistan is under water.” The U.S. Geological Survey collaborated with 39 international scientists — “the most knowledgeable glaciologists for each geographic region...
NASA: Easily the hottest spring — and Jan-May — in temperature record « Climate Progress
Last month tied May 1998 as the hottest on record in the NASA dataset. More significantly, following fast on the heels of easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — on record, it’s also the hottest Jan-May on record .Also, the combined land-surface air and sea-surface water temperature anomaly for March-April-May was 0.73°C above the 1951-1980 mean, blowing out the old record of 0.65°C set in 2002.The record temperatures...
Deconstructing Lord Chris Monckton
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, aka Lord Chris Monckton, never had much credibility. He is not a scientist, even less a climatologist, in fact he has no science background to speak of. He has not ever published any research paper in a journal, even less any on climatology. He is also a hate-monger who calls climate science supporters “Hitler Youths”. Nonetheless he goes around the world leveraging his “Lordship” and his excellent oratorial skills...
Yale Environment 360: The Earth’s ‘Missing Heat’
Scientists are unable to account for about half of the heat that is believed to have accumulated in the atmosphere in recent years as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, according to a new study. Using data from satellites and other sources, scientists from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) calculated how much heat should have been measured on Earth as a result of incoming solar energy and heat-trapping greenhouse...