As
discussions about global climate change take place in both the scientific sector and the policy realm, Enzo Sauma is in a good position to bridge the two worlds.
With all
the discussion about global climate change effects, new research shows that another kind of climate is an important factor in regional pinyon pine tree recovery after drought events — the microclimate.
And most of the world is not midwinter antartica, so why bring that up in
a discussion about global climate and energy balance globally?
Not exact matches
I had just been in a
discussion of
climate change on a messageboard where someone had triumphantly put up links to various blogs (including one that you noted here) drawing conclusions
about the cause of the
global warming here on earth on the basis of these recent measurements of Mars's south polar cap!
I think your
discussion about anthropogenic
global warming is a little «off topic» in this blog entry, which is
about due diligence in
climate science, but with the permission of those running the blog, I'd like to explore it a little further.
It is a guide
about how to incorporate
discussion of
global issues such as gender,
climate change and poverty into your subject area.
I would like to see
discussion about the most recent period of rapid
global warming... leading to the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
about 55 million years ago... including differences and similarities to the
climate projections for this century... and beyond.
Usually when we talk
about transportation emissions causing
climate change here at TreeHugger, we focus on CO2 emissions or methane emissions — the usual suspects in the
global warming
discussion.
He follows a president who consistently stressed the unknowns
about global warming and whose minions sometimes downplayed established science; whose negotiators at
climate - treaty talks were instructed to enter into any kind of
discussion, but no negotiations.
Also, the term «
global pattern of warming» implies regional temperature change, which pushes the
climate system response
discussion to a much higher level of complexity than when simply talking
about changes in
global - mean
climate.
Why can't we have a rational
discussion about the energy and
global climate change?
Let me quote something that I have used again and again during my
discussions in the blogosphere
about the «significant human - made
global climate change» hyothesis.
Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio was on hand at the first annual South by South Lawn (SXSL) festival at the White House Monday for a
discussion with President Obama
about climate change and a screening of his new documentary film
about global warming.
I find concerned liberals are loath to talk
about how consistently wrong
climate models have been or
about the «pause» in
global warming that has gone on for over fifteen years, while
climate skeptics avoid
discussion of things like ocean acidification and accelerated melting in Greenland and the Arctic.
The
discussion is in fact
about CO2 being the sole real driver of
global climate.
In fact, it is precisely because «the
discussion about the causes of
global warming was to a very great extent settled by the date of broadcast», meaning that
climate change was no longer a matter of political controversy, that a programme claiming it is all a pack of lies could slip past the partiality rules.
If you want to know what I think
about the science of
climate change, then you should read what Mojib (if my name weren't Mojib Latif it would be
global warming) Latif has to say
about the relationship between natural variability and long - term
climate change (which includes, very prominently, the
discussion about natural variability «swamping» mean surface temperature on a short - term basis).
Lomborg's errors in his
discussion of
climate change have been documented by many sources including A 2010 book published by Yale University Press titled The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight
About Global Warming.
I think your
discussion about anthropogenic
global warming is a little «off topic» in this blog entry, which is
about due diligence in
climate science, but with the permission of those running the blog, I'd like to explore it a little further.
In serious
discussions about climate change, it is universally acknowledged that the world must become carbon neutral in order to stop
global temperatures from increasing.
Why on earth Mr Lacis raves on
about the ins and outs of the technical issues under
discussion in the area of
climate science /
global warming when it is the issue of the ethical and legal aspects of Gleick's actions that are the immediate issue.
The unfortunate use of the term «pause / hiatus» has seeped over into the general
climate scientist population now: this has had the effect of inadvertently framing
discussions over the
global temperature data as being
about explaining the so - called pause, even though the very notion isn't statistically supported.
This distinction is central to any
discussion about Climate Change and
Global Warming.
Headlines like «2014: The Most Dishonest Year on Record» have been posted on
climate skeptic blogs, such as Watts Up With That, and a commentator for the popular British newspaper The Daily Mail all but accused NASA of lying to the press and the public
about global temperatures, despite the open
discussion of uncertainties both in NASA's press materials and during a press conference with audio that is publicly accessible.
Yet when US federal
climate change legislation was under consideration between 2009 and 2010, there was almost no public
discussion about whether proposed US
climate change legislation would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions to levels that represent the US fair share of safe
global emissions.
Dr. Curry,
Discussions about re-marketing AGW / CAGW / cliamte change /
Global warming / global climate disruption are like efforts to improve the marketing of the
Global warming /
global climate disruption are like efforts to improve the marketing of the
global climate disruption are like efforts to improve the marketing of the Edsel.
Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, leader of WWF's
global Climate & Energy Practice, said: «It was encouraging to see that
discussions in Bonn were not around whether or not the Paris Agreement was needed but rather
about the details of its implementation.
That we tend to see much more
discussion about global warming is I think because of the limitations of the
climate models when they go to more regional and seasonal predictions and refinements of max versus min temperature trends.
As Chris Mooney writes in his post
about the
discussion between Drs Francis and Trenberth, «The biggest debate in
climate science may be over whether
global warming will create more winters like this one.
UPDATED Sept. 5 I encourage anyone interested in
climate change science and policy to explore the rich
discussion below
about geoengineering, in this case mainly focused on managing incoming solar radiation to counter CO2 - driven
global warming — particularly in the context of the long (and building) commitment to warming already baked into the
climate system.
It was interesting, because behind the open
discussion about global warming and
climate change, there was a growing
discussion about the actual role of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
Therein you will find a lot of
discussion about discount rates, «leakage», using a U.S. SCC v. a
global SCC, average ton of CO2 v. marginal ton, «equilibrium
climate sensitivity», and more.
We can see very clearly that when it comes to having an intelligent
discussion about global warming then,
climate change then, disastrous
climate disruption then, «
global weirding,» etc., that it is communication itself that has been the most attacked and then undermined.
Student groups placed signs displaying refugee statistics along the walkways of the Arts Quad to foster
discussion about the
global refugee crisis, including the plight of
climate change refugees.
For a
discussion of what can and can not be concluded
about possible relationships between recent Hurricane activity and
climate change, please see our post on Hurricanes and
Global Warming: Is There a Connection?.
The
discussion shouldn't be
about the
climate science, but rather
about the technical solutions to an extremely severe
global problem that — if it isn't already obvious to the experts, then they shouldn't be trusted with any of the credible solutions.