British Climate Act “failed before it started” Institute of Physics News 18 June 2009 The British Climate Act is flawed and comprised of unrealistic and unobtainable targets, writes US academic Roger A Pielke Jr, in a journal paper published today, 18 June, 2009, in IOP Publishing’s ‘Environmental Research Letters’. As Pielke, a professor of environmental [...]
ANTARCTIC ice shelves are showing no sign of climate change, six years of unique research have shown. Scientists from Western Australia’s Curtin University of Technology are using acoustic sensors developed to support the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to listen for the sound of icebergs breaking away from the giant ice sheets of the south [...]
No new posts by Roger Pielke Jr on Prometheus from the end of July. Instead he has started his own blog. Thankfully, the excellent information and opinion on Prometheus will be archived. Roger Pielke Jr is one of Climate Research News’ favourite bloggers due to his expert knowledge, objectivity, plus his unque ability to frustrate [...]
Our politicians haven’t noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker. Telegraph.co.uk: ‘Crops under stress as temperatures fall’
A review of sea level rise studies has been published in Nature Geoscicence: Identifying the causes of sea-level change Glenn A. Milne, W. Roland Gehrels, Chris W. Hughes & Mark E. Tamisiea Abstract Global mean sea-level change has increased from a few centimetres per century over recent millennia to a few tens of centimetres per [...]
Sir Paul McCartney and other famous climate scientists rich celebrities are urging us to give up meat for one day a week in order to help ‘combat climate change.’ The campaign is called ‘Meat Free Monday.’ I wonder if the rest of us normal people who aren’t millionaires can afford to eat meat every day [...]
Japan has announced a target of a 15% reduction in CO2 emissions below 2005 levels by 2020. Japanese prime minister Mr Aso described Japan’s new target as “ambitious“: Mr. Aso was quick to point out that unlike targets set under the Kyoto Protocol, which allowed countries to use emissions offsets and other methods, the 15 [...]
Another paper from the virtual world, published in Nature (surprise!), billed as the ‘definitive’ link between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming in the PR from Concordia University (where!?). Nature: Vol 459 | 11 June 2009 | doi:10.1038/nature08047 The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions p829 Climate sensitivity models may inaccurately characterize the [...]
The Abstract below is from a recent paper by Millet, L., Arnaud, F., Heiri, O., Magny, M., Verneaux, V. and Desmet, M. 2009, entitled: Late-Holocene summer temperature reconstruction from chironomid assemblages of Lake Anterne, northern French Alps. The Holocene 19: 317-328: We present a chironomid-based reconstruction of late-Holocene temperature from Lake Anterne (2060 m a.s.l.) [...]
In their 2007 report, IPCC working group 1 refers to an increased heterogeneity of climate during medieval times about 1000 years ago. This conclusion would be of relevance, as it implies a contrast in the spatial signature and forcing of current warmth to that during the Medieval Warm Period. Our analysis of the data displayed [...]
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.
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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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