Recap Part One of the series started with this statement: If there’s one area that often seems to catch the imagination of many who call themselves “climate skeptics”, it’s the idea that CO2 at its low levels of concentration in the atmosphere can’t possibly cause the changes in temperature that have already occurred – and [...]
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CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas? Part Three
Posted in Climate Models on January 31, 2010 | 45 Comments »
CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas? Part Two
Posted in Climate Models on January 20, 2010 | 28 Comments »
Recap Part One of the series started with this statement: If there’s one area that often seems to catch the imagination of many who call themselves “climate skeptics”, it’s the idea that CO2 at its low levels of concentration in the atmosphere can’t possibly cause the changes in temperature that have already occurred – and [...]
Urban Heat Island in Japan
Posted in Measurement on January 17, 2010 | 11 Comments »
For newcomers to the climate debate it is often difficult to understand if global warming even exists. Controversy rages about temperature records, “adjustments” to individual stations, methods of creating the global databases like CRU and GISS and especially the problem of UHI. UHI, or the urban heat island, refers to the problem that temperatures in cities [...]
CO2 Lags Temperature in the Ice-Core Record. Doesn’t that prove the IPCC wrong?
Posted in Climate History on January 15, 2010 | 32 Comments »
I’m halfway through writing the 2nd post in the series CO2 – An Insignificant Trace Gas? – which is harder work than I expected and I came across a new video by John Coleman called Global Warming: The Other Side. I only watched the first section which is 11 minutes long and promises in its writeup: [...]
“Warmest Decade on Record” and the Layman’s Guide to Autocorrelation
Posted in Commentary, Measurement on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In many debates on whether the earth has been cooling this decade we often hear This decade is the warmest on record (Note: reference is to the “naughties” decade). This post isn’t about whether or not the temperature has gone up or down but just to draw attention to a subject that you would expect [...]
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The IPCC and the Credibility of Climate Science
Posted in Climate Models, Commentary on January 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
If you’re not a veteran of the blogosphere wars about climate change but have followed recent events you are probably wondering what to believe. First, what recent events (Jan 2010)? The issues arising from the story in the UK Mail that the IPCC used “sexed-up” climate forecasts to put political pressure on world leaders: Dr [...]
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