Gareth Renowden • Apr 30, 2012 •
Courtesy of Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, a very nice graphical demonstration of why “warming” hasn’t stopped in the last decade (or two). Nielsen-Gammon took the GISS global temperature series, classified years as El Niño dominated, neutral, or La Niña, excluded the influence of the Pinatubo-cooled years in the early 90s, and then calculated the [...] … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Apr 16, 2012 •
Something stirred inside the carefully cultivated cocoon of ignorance at Richard Treadgold’s Climate “Conversation” blog, but I don’t think it was the butterfly of understanding preparing to inflate its wings. Something much more subterranean, I suspect. Needled by my post about said cocoon (namely, Treadgold’s insistence that “global warming has not happened for about 15 [...] … Read More
Bryan Walker • Sep 27, 2011 •
James Powell has produced a Kindle eBook, Rough Winds: Extreme Weather and Climate Change, which in brief compass links climate change to the extreme weather events increasing across the globe. Â As a Kindle Single it has the advantage of being right up to date with what has been happening in the US, including the visit [...] … Read More
Bryan Walker • Aug 16, 2011 •
“Everywhere we look, impacts are coming faster and harder than we would have predicted just a few years ago.” Peter Sinclair’s recent Crock of the Week video . Read More
Gareth Renowden • Apr 17, 2011 •
Sir Peter Gluckman, scientific adviser to NZ prime minister John Key, recently published a discussion paper entitled Towards better use of evidence in policy formation (pdf). It’s an interesting read for anyone who has ever noted the sometimes large discrepancy between political dogma and policy outcomes. Sciblogger Peter Griffin went so far as to describe [...] … Read More