A growing body of research is showing that humans are likely causing more than 100% of global warming: without our influences on the climate, the planet would actually be cooling slightly. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its fourth assessment report, internationally regarded as the most credible summary of climate science to [...]
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How much is most?
Posted in News and Reports, tagged AGU, climate change, education, environment, global warming, IPCC, science on January 31, 2012 | 33 Comments »
How do climate models work?
Posted in Science Lessons, tagged arctic, atmosphere, cesm, chemistry, climate change, climate models, education, global warming, IPSL, mathematics, NOAA, ocean, physics, programming, science on January 20, 2012 | 28 Comments »
Also published at Skeptical Science This is a climate model: T = [(1-α)S/(4εσ)]1/4 (T is temperature, α is the albedo, S is the incoming solar radiation, ε is the emissivity, and σ is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant) An extremely simplified climate model, that is. It’s one line long, and is at the heart of every computer [...]
Winter in the Woods
Posted in Musings, tagged black-capped chickadee, canada, climate change, environment, global warming, nature, prairies, science, white-tailed deer, wildlife on December 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast… a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it [...]
A Little Bit of Hope
Posted in Media and the Public, tagged canada, carbon dioxide, climate change, education, global warming, science, sea level rise, skeptical science, solar activity, volcanoes, youth on December 15, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I went to a public lecture on climate change last night (because I just didn’t get enough of that last week at AGU, apparently), where four professors from different departments at my university spoke about their work. They were great speeches – it sort of reminded me of TED Talks – but I was actually [...]
The Software Architecture of Global Climate Models
Posted in Research Blogging, tagged AGU, climate change, computers, engineering, environment, global warming, programming, science, software on December 14, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Last week at AGU, I presented the results of the project Steve Easterbrook and I worked on this summer. Click the thumbnail on the left for a full size PDF. Also, you can download the updated versions of our software diagrams: COSMOS (COmmunity earth System MOdelS) 1.2.1 Model E: Oct. 11, 2011 snapshot HadGEM3 (Hadley [...]
Labels
Posted in Musings, tagged AGU, climate change, contrarian, denial, education, environment, global warming, john cook, science, skeptic, skeptical science on December 13, 2011 | 39 Comments »
For a long time I have struggled with what to call the people who insist that climate change is natural/nonexistent/a global conspiracy. “Skeptics” is their preferred term, but I refuse to give such a compliment to those who don’t deserve it. Skepticism is a good thing in science, and it’s not being applied by self-professed [...]
General Thoughts on AGU
Posted in Other Advocates, Research Blogging, tagged science, climate change, global warming, environment, education, skeptical science, ben santer, john cook, james hansen, michael tobis, AGU, bill mckibben, gavin schmidt, stephen schneider, michael mann, susan joy hassol, richard sommerville, physics today on December 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I returned home from the AGU Fall Meeting last night, and after a good night’s sleep I am almost recovered – it’s amazing how tired science can make you! The whole conference felt sort of surreal. Meeting and conversing with others was definitely the best part. I shook the hand of James Hansen and assured [...]
AGU 2011
Posted in Research Blogging, tagged AGU, climate change, climate models, global warming, san francisco, science, software engineering on November 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I know that many of you will be at the annual American Geophysical Union conference next week in San Francisco. If so, I’d invite you to come by and take a look at our poster! It will be up all Thursday morning in Halls A-C, Moscone South. I will be around for at least part [...]
Uncertainty
Posted in How Science Works, tagged cancer, climate change, climate sensitivity, drought, environment, flood, glaciers, global warming, ice sheets, medicine, precipitation, science, sea level rise, smoking, tobacco, uncertainty on November 9, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Part 5 in a series of 5 for NextGen Journal Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 Scientists can never say that something is 100% certain, but they can come pretty close. After a while, a theory becomes so strong that the academic community accepts it and moves on to more interesting [...]
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