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Archive for December 19th, 2008

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)

The US space agency is set to launch a satellite that can map in detail where carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere. Nasa’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) will pinpoint the key locations on the Earth’s surface where CO2 is being emitted and absorbed….. However, to locate the sources and sinks, scientists will need to combine [...]

Malaria and Global Warming

Paul Reiter of The Insects and Infectious Disease Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, has an ‘open access’ review published in Malaria Journal entitled, ‘Global warming and malaria: knowing the horse before hitching the cart.’ The Abstract states: Speculations on the potential impact of climate change on human health frequently focus on malaria. Predictions are common that in [...]

Evaluating Near Term Hurricane Loss Prediction Models

Karen Clark & Company Report Analyzes Performance Of Near Term Hurricane Models Short Time Horizon Appears Inadequate for Predicting Insured Losses BOSTON, December 16, 2008 – Karen Clark & Company, independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models, and catastrophe risk management, today released a report on the performance of near term hurricane models. The report [...]

How High Will Sea Levels Rise in the 21st Century?

As reported by Prometheus, there is a chapter in the latest US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) report entitled, ‘Rapid Changes in Glaciers and Ice Sheets and their Effects on Sea Level.’ Uncertainty seems to be the key message with regard to the ability to predict sea level rise in the 21st Century (page 92/93): [...]

 

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New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History? Available from Amazon UK here: More from Booker himself here. (1)

Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Read the AIG News paper here. (1)

Global Warming Ate My Data
We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests. The Register (3)

Climate Depot's Arctic Fact Sheet
Climate Depot Arctic Fact Sheet (for additional updates on the Arctic see new articles tagged Arctic) (0)

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