Evans touted a new peer - reviewed study by a team of scientists appearing in the December 2007 issue of the International Journal
of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society which found «Warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence.»
John Maunder, PhD, Climatologist, former President of the Commission
for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization (89 - 97), New Zealand
Closer to home, one of the 19 Canadian signatories to the skeptics letter is Tim Ball, a retired professor of
climatology from the University of Winnipeg, now living in Victoria.
To check that result, they extended their analysis back to 1980, using data from the Global Precipitation
Climatology Project for the earlier years.
Kollias, P., G. Tselioudis, and B.A. Albrecht, 2007:
Cloud climatology at the Southern Great Plains and the layer structure, drizzle, and atmospheric modes of continental stratus.
Global Warming has to do
with Climatology which involves long term climate trends and influences.
In it, Johnson demonstrates that Tim Ball got a PhD in geography, on a topic of historical geography and meteorology, not in
climatology as Ball claimed.
Twenty years ago my graduate class in
Applied Climatology involved a briefing as a commercial pilot flying from Winnipeg to Vancouver.
Sorry Mr Steele, but you don't have the qualifications to talk seriously
about climatology with any amount of authority.
Believing in climate change is not a precondition for
studying climatology; instead, it is the conclusion reached by those who choose to pursue that field.
The organisation's Commission for
Climatology uses new techniques to address such assessment and monitoring, as well as using the ubiquitous climate models.
It provides well - established
model climatology comparisons with observations, including the following:
[Response: Sure, there are multiple programs to do just that — the recent meeting on
statistical climatology in edinburgh was full of people involved in that.
Most stuff about radiative equilibrium and planetary temperatures can be found in introductory astronomy texts as well as
climatology papers and texts.
The WSJ's anecdotal treatment of the subject goes toward confirming what I've been hearing for years in
climatology -LSB-...]
But, at 77 and with his career winding down, Bengtsson also knows enough to know that the
cartoon climatology advanced by Mann through the IPCC will one day, soon, be seen as a kind of madness of which real science will be deeply ashamed.
Even further, Ball once claimed he was «one of the first
climatology PhD's in the world.»
We first generate a full set of monthly analyses from the raw data for the period 1911 - 2010, and in the process calculate 1981 - 2010
monthly climatologies from the raw analysis grids.
The aim of increasing resolution in AGCMs is generally to improve the simulation of
surface climatology compared to coarser resolution models (Cubash et al., 1995).
PCIC has made seasonal maps of average temperature and total precipitation departures from the 30 -
year climatology at observational weather stations in BC, for all months from 1972 onward.
It is irrelevant how well a president
knows climatology and the tenets of so - called global warming.