The current generation of global atmospheric models in use
for climate studies around the world do some things remarkably well, as I've tried to argue in several earlier posts.
The choice of the beginning and end point
of climate studies determines the overall trend.
This is really bad news because it seems to suggest that our data of the 19th century has not got enough precision to be used
in climate studies.
The continent's ice sheet and the rest of the world's land ice would melt if all the world's fossil fuels were burned, a
new climate study found.
Scientists involved
with climate studies warn that it is not just about temperature change but how fast it occurs.
Most climate studies like those that look at global warming and its links to carbon dioxide emissions have examined changes that emerge gradually and steadily over decades or centuries.
Reports are available which indicate a massive melting of the arctic ice sheet in the 1920's and 30's, long before the era of
global climate studies.
Three years ago I identified problems in
previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming.
«Every peer - reviewed
climate study goes through that red - team / blue - team treatment,» he said.
These trends reveal the varying importance of irrigation - climate interactions and suggest that
future climate studies should account for irrigation, especially in regions with unsustainable irrigation resources.
Two global - warming skeptics who questioned an
influential climate study and prompted a congressional inquiry are now facing critics of their own.
It illustrates how many possible factors are involved in the complexity but also how much is not part of
mainstream climate studies and certainly outside of public understanding.
Climate studies represent an exciting and highly topical challenge, and what we learn can affect public policy and mankind directly.
We believe that this climate data should be made freely available to all legitimate climate scientists for
legitimate climate studies.
The challenge is how best to merge the available information on water vapor distribution into an improved description of the time and space variations of water vapor to
enhance climate studies.
And because these floating plants absorb as much of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide - a major greenhouse gas - as do terrestrial plants, they are important to any
global climate study.
Three years ago I identified problems in
previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming.
The 24 - hour media cycle, with Internet and cable outlets desperate for new content, means that each
new climate study gets mentioned in some way.
Spencer is a scientist at the University of Alabama - Huntsville and a former senior scientist for
climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
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