Archive for September 2009

The Greenland ice sheet is shrinking

The Greenland ice sheet is shrinking Government of Greenland, Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment |info@climategreenland.glSatellite readings show Greenland is losing large quantities of ice. The enormous ice cap constituting the inland ice

UNEP: Impacts of climate change coming faster and sooner: New science report underlines urgency for governments to seal the deal in Copenhagen

Impacts of climate change coming faster and sooner: New science report underlines urgency for governments to seal the deal in CopenhagenWashington/Nairobi, 24 September 2009 -The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most

The Guardian: Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes

Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes• Study says 4 °C rise in temperature could happen by 2060• Increase could threaten water supply of half world population

V.M. Tiwari, J. Wahr, S. Swensen, GRL 2009: Dwindling groundwater resources in northern India, from satellite gravity observations

Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (2009) L18401; doi: 10.1029/2009GL039401. Dwindling groundwater resources in northern

Steiner, Kirchengas, Lackner, Pirscher, Borsche, Foelsche, GRL 2009, Atmospheric temperature change detection with GPS radio occultation 1995-2008

Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (2009)  L18702; doi: 10.1029/2009GL039777. Atmospheric temperature change detection

H. Douville, GRL (2009), Stratospheric polar vortex influence on Northern Hemisphere winter climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (2009) L18703; doi: 10.1029/2009GL039334.Stratospheric polar vortex influence on Northern

Marco Tedesco & Andrew J. Monaghan, GRL (2009): An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to high-latitude and tropical climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (2009) L18502; doi: 10.1029/2009GL039186.

Dlugokencky et al., GRL (September 2009): Observational constraints on recent increases in the atmospheric CH4 burden

Geophysical Research Letters, 36 (2009) L18803; doi: 10.1029/2009GL039780.Observational constraints on recent increases

NOAA: Unusual Arctic warmth, tropical wetness likely cause for methane increase, E. Dlugokencky et al., GRL

Unusual Arctic warmth, tropical wetness likely cause for methane increaseNOAA, September 25, 2009 Wetlands at the Parker River restoration site. High resolution (Credit: NOAA)Unusually high temperatures in the Arctic and heavy rains in the

Jordan to Desalinate Red Sea Water in Dead Sea

This report is none too clear, but the gist of the plan is to operate a desalination plant on the Red sea or even uphill near the Dead Sea. A byproduct of desalination happens to be concentrated brine usually equal to a third or so of the through put.

Hockey Stick Fraud

There is no way to be generous or to dodge this bullet. We now have outright confirmation that the data was deliberately selected to provide the dramatic eye catching result that was made it so famous. This is not science so much as a publicist’s dodgy

Cancer Biossenser Development

This is a pleasant surprise that leaps us forward to the day when cancer is cured. It is well known that early detection allows us to aggressively eliminate the disease while it is still easy to treat.I recall that in the first applications of the AIDS

TWC: Bird's eye view of the North Pole and how the weakening of the polar vortex is allowing not so good things to go on weatherwise

OK, readers, that was a really silly title, I know.But, I don't know how else to state it. Please click on the image to enlarge it. If you look carefully at the clouds, you can see that France is dry and so is the entire western half of the U.S.If the

Joseph Romm: Met Office: Catastrophic climate change, 13-18 °F over most of U.S. and 27 °F in the Arctic, could happen in 50 years, but “we do have time to stop it if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon”

UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change, 13-18 °F over most of U.S. and 27 °F in the Arctic, could happen in 50 years, but “we do have time to stop it if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon” by Joseph Romm, Climate

Bronze Age Climate Restoration

Those who followed my blog last year saw me work at tracking and isolating the various likely factors responsible for the temperature variation experienced throughout the ten thousand year Holocene. A big question mark was the existence of a two thousand