Climate & Environment Review: August 23, 2006 (2nd Edition)

Climate & Environment Review: 2nd Edition
August 23, 2006

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RESEARCHERS FIND ANTARCTIC ICE IS THICKENING
WASHINGTON (AP) New measurements show the ice in West Antarctica is thickening, reversing some earlier estimates that the sheet was melting... >>Read More<<

Ice Sheets (Greenland) – Summary
Studies of the growth and decay of polar ice sheets are of great importance because of the relationships of these phenomena to global warming and the impacts they can have on sea level. In this summary, therefore, we review a number of such studies that pertain to the Greenland Ice Sheet... >>Read More<<

Scientists Disagree On Link Between Storms, Warming
A year after Hurricane Katrina and other major storms battered the U.S. coast, the question of whether hurricanes are becoming more destructive because of global warming has become perhaps the most hotly contested question in the scientific debate over climate change... >>Read More<<

The Real Cause for Concern About Sea Level
The authors analyzed the major forces shaping forty deltas (distributed across a wide range of climatic, geomorphological and economic development conditions) that are the endpoints of rivers that drain 30% of the earth's landmass, provide 42% of terrestrial runoff to the sea, and are home to 300 million people... >>Read More<<

How to Achieve Scientific "Consensus"
I'm sorry I had to decline your lunch invitation today. You seemed to know the excuse I gave you was just a cover... >>Read More<<

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Ketchum, ID
To bolster our claim that "There Has Been No Net Global Warming for the Past 70 Years," each week we highlight the temperature record of one of the 1221 U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) stations from 1930-2000... >>Read More<<

Recovery from Bleaching in Corals
In an attempt to better elucidate the mechanisms of coral recovery from bleaching, Grottoli et al. induced bleaching in branches of healthy Porites compressa and Montipora capitata coral colonies from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, by exposing them out-of-doors in flow-through filtered-seawater tanks devoid of zooplankton and maintained at an elevated temperature of 30°C, while an equal number of coral branches were maintained in identical conditions but at the lower ambient seawater temperature of 27°C... >>Read More<<

The Medieval Warm Period in Western North America
The authors studied the orientation, morphology and internal structure of dunes in the easternmost (wettest) portion of the Nebraska Sand Hills, where shallow core and outcrop samples indicate the dunes were formed some 800 to 1000 years ago, when aridity was widespread and persistent across western North America... >>Read More<<

MORE DOUBTS ABOUT CLIMATE MODELS: SNOWFALL CONSTANT OVER ANTARCTICA IN LAST 50 YEARS
Study shows snowfall hasn't increased over Antarctica in last 50 years... >>Read More<<

The Little Ice Age in Tibet
The author characterized the history of Little Ice Age glacier fluctuations in eastern Tibet by studying (1) the ages of trees growing on glacier deposits, (2) chronologies of tree total ring width, which he found to be "positively correlated with temperatures of early summer (June and July) and especially with November to January preceding the growth season," and (3) chronologies of tree maximum latewood density, which he says "is highly correlated with the temperature sum of August and September," derived from trees growing on slopes above the glacier valleys... >>Read More<<

Last Interglacial Warmth on Canada's Baffin Island: Part 2
In a companion study to that of Frechette et al. (2006), Francis et al. analyzed midge (principally chironomid) remains found in cores recovered from two of the same Baffin Island lakes (Fog Lake and Brother of Fog Lake) for which Frechette et al. analyzed pollen spectra, reconstructing lake water temperatures and mean July air temperatures for both the Holocene and the prior interglacial period... >>Read More<<