Science (15 January 2010), Vol. 327, No. 5963, pp. 322–325; DOI: 10.1126/science.1175176 Reports Large-scale controls of methanogenesis

The wisdom of SolomonFiled under:  Climate Science — gavin @ 29 January 2010   A quick post for commentary on the new Solomon et al paper in Science Express. We’ll try and get around to discussing this over the weekend,

Copenhagen: what next?It's coming up to six weeks since the end of the Copenhagen negotiations on climate change. Now that the dust has settled, there's time to stand back and take a more considered look. Here Yvo de Boer, executive

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These monetary maneuvers by the Chinese government surely presage a revaluation of the Yuan dollar peg.  It will now obviously benefit China by somewhat cooling things off internally and allowing them more time to place their huge US dollar pool.

Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (2010) L02501; doi: 10.1029/2009GL041108. Persistent

I have posted extensively on what we call dawn age reptiles. These are critters that are at home in swamps and deep water and are mostly aquatic.  I avoided talking about the later reptiles for the nonce.The niche occupied by dawn age reptiles immediately

I find this a good discussion on the need for an aggressive government program to expand and also rationalize energy production and transmission.  Beyond that I want to repeat a couple of comments of mine on the subject.  The first item is

For the present of course, researchers are discovering how far they can go with this.  We know that solar cells can be printed and doing the same with battery tech is an obvious fit.  This also suggests that folding can produce larger batteries.

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Science, published online January 28, 2010; DOI: 10.1126/science.1182488 Contributions of stratospheric water vapor to decadal changes in the rate of global warming Susan Solomon,1 Karen Rosenlof,1 Robert Portmann,1 John Daniel,1 Sean Davis,1,2 Todd

Arctic 'Melt Season' Is Growing Longer, New Research Demonstratesby Kathryn Hansen, Goddard Space Flight Center, January 27, 2010New NASA-led research shows that the melt season for Arctic sea ice has lengthened by an average of 20 days over the span