Dive right in: Will 2010 be the hottest year on record? – it all depends on which data source you choose: GISTEMP (likely) or HadCRU (about as likely as not). Climate change is leaving us with extra space junk – Even the space junk is trying to tell us we’re changing the climate. One moreRead more
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This week’s top climate science links
Dive right in: Sustainability: Choices, choices, choices – great piece by the BBC’s Richard Black. Matt Ridley and the Holocene Optimum – Matt Ridley making elementary mistakes again, you’d think he has some sort of wider agenda. Oh, he has. Could global brightening be causing global warming? – short answer: unfortunately not. A brief updateRead more
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Dive right in: Climate skeptic hides the incline in global temperatures – shock horror. Heat stress – setting a limit on what we can adapt to – if you didn”t know already, >7C temp rises will be bad, very bad. Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: insights from analogues –Read more
Offshore Valuation report launched
The Offshore Valuation is published today by the Offshore Valuation Group, chaired by the Public Interest Research Centre. It is the first comprehensive valuation of the UK’s offshore renewable energy resource over the long-term that explicitly assesses electricity exports to Europe. The Offshore Valuation Group is an informal collaboration of government and industry organisations thatRead more
The Offshore Valuation
The Offshore Valuation is the first comprehensive long-term valuation of the UK’s offshore renewable energy resource that explicitly assesses electricity exports to Europe. “I welcome this report which, as the first of its kind, highlights the huge potential for low carbon energy generation off our shores. It sets out the scale of how much canRead more
Matthew Nisbet on the over-reaction of science & ways to move forward
Matthew Nisbet over at Framing Science has an excellent blog post on the potential over-reaction by climate scientists to the events of the last few months. The piece is written from a US perspective, but I think it applies equally here in the UK. He notes: Multiple surveys show a decline in public concern withRead more
This week’s top climate science links
Dive right in: Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security. US & UK Defense agree. – “I am struck by how similar UK and U.S. thinking is on the national security implications of climate change. Our defense departments agree that the impact of climate change is likely to be most severe in areas where itRead more
Climate science in six paragraphs
Several weeks back, amidst the media storm, Richard Somerville a Lead Author of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment report (IPCC AR4) wrote a short and punchy “response to climate change denialism“. We finally got round to posting it here. It’s a great, simple communication by a veteran climate scientist. It’s notRead more
AmazonGate Update: Scientist Takes Sunday Times to Press Complaints Commission
The Guardian reports that Simon Lewis, a UK-based Amazon scientist, is taking the Sunday Times to the Press Complaints Commission over an article they published in January claiming the IPCC wrongly predicted that 40% of the Amazon rainforest was vulnerable to reduced rainfall: Lewis said he was contacted by the Sunday Times before the articleRead more
This week’s top climate science links
Dive right in: Scientists hash out the uncertainties of climate sensitivity – Here’s some great science journalism, climate sensitivity made fun (almost!). Methane bubbling out of Arctic Ocean – but is it new? Great piece by New Scientist on the Arctic permafrost and the uncertainties inherent in any ‘new’ scientific discovery. Debunking Lomborg, the Climate-ChangeRead more
This week’s climate links
Dive right in: SealevelGate – Real Climate cover the true IPCC sea-level scandal. Must read. Climate of fear, Nature editorial (free access) – “The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight.” Overview of allRead more
This week’s climate links
Dive right in: RealClimate | IPCC errors: facts and spin Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb: Scientific American Richard Alley’s keynote at the 2009 AGU AGM – If you want a primer on the role of CO2 in the ancient climate, this is it. At least one journalist at the Telegraph understands risk More GrumbineRead more
RealClimate on the media’s misleading coverage of the IPCC
RealClimate have just published a really useful post discussing the IPCC and media distortion. As well as kindly praising Tim’s analysis of the affair which you can find here on publicinterest.org.uk, the piece includes a great summary of the IPCC and its processes: “Assessment reports are published every six or seven years and writing themRead more
This week’s climate links
Dive right in: PCC Adjudication on Ward vs. Booker – has to be read to be believed! Can you say ‘toothless’. What does openness in science mean? Potential problems with open access Climate deniers using FOI legisation as a filibuster… Earlier glacial melt rate revised downward, but recent melt is accelerating dramatically Climate Change DenierRead more
This week's climate links
Dive right in: Radio 4, Today – IPCC ‘must earn trust’ with public IPCC denies newspaper claim that it overstated costs of natural disasters Deniergate: Turning the tables on climate sceptics New controversy in battle over the future of climate politics Great post on weather stations and the reliability of temperature data
