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October 22, 2007 |
| Climate & Environment
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Inconvenient Expert Stuart Dimmock Claimant - and - Secretary of State for Education and Skills (now Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families... Greenland Climate: Now vs. Then, Part I. Temperatures We at World Climate Report have been spending some time over at the local library digging through some old journals looking for information about climate conditions in Greenland during the early-to-mid 20th century—a time when it pretty well established that much of Greenland was as warm, or warmer, than it is presently... Hurricane Threat to Florida: Climate Change or Demographics? Despite the lack of any trends in hurricane landfalls along the U.S. and Florida coasts, or damage to U.S. coastlines when population demographics are taken into account, the impact from a single storm can be enormous... Global Warming Delusions Global warming doesn't matter except to the extent that it will affect life -- ours and that of all living things on Earth. And contrary to the latest news, the evidence that global warming will have serious effects on life is thin. Most evidence suggests the contrary... Climate Variability in a Warming World: The Situation in Switzerland Reference Beniston and Goyette investigate "whether, based on long time-series of observational data, [the above] hypothesis is indeed verified in a climate that has experienced a warming of 2°C or more at certain locations in Switzerland since the beginning of the 20th century," focusing on "two Swiss sites representative of low elevations (Basel, 369 m above sea level) and high elevations (Saentis, 2500 m above sea level)"... China’s drive for wealth means end of our low-carbon dreams Hu Jintao wants to make every Chinese twice as rich by 2020. He has done it once – in just five years, income per capita doubled to $2,000 (£983) - and the only obstacle in the Chinese President’s path is the fuel needed to stoke the boiler in China’s locomotive... How can you predict global warming if you can't predict rain? To those of us who are not climate scientists, it may come down to this: How can we be so certain what the climate will be like a century from now if you can't get a decent weather forecast more than two weeks ahead? In the end, isn't climate change just too complex?... Can the Huge Claimed Consensus on CO2 and Global Warming Possibly Be Wrong? In many situations, as the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, and so it is in the case of scientific theories. Nevertheless, truth is not decided by majority vote, or even by acclamation; for it is what it is, irrespective of what the entire world may say about it... A Combined Observational History- and Model-Based Projection of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones Noting that "it is controversial whether climate models are able to be used to simulate the tropical cyclone's activities directly [our italics]," the authors analyzed real-world tropical cyclone data pertaining to the western North Pacific basin archived in the Yearbook of Typhoon published by the China Meteorological Administration for the period 1949-2003, together with contemporaneous atmospheric information obtained from the National Center for Environmental Protection reanalysis dataset for the period 1951-2003... |
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