RealClimate
Favourite Gardening Blogs & feeds (40)Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)
Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)Climate science commentary by actual climate scientists... 6 Jan 09 FAQ on climate models: Part II This is a continuation of a previous post including interesting questions from the comments. More Questions What are parameterisations? Some physics in the real world, that is necessary for a climate model to work, is only known empirically... 5 Jan 09 Weblog awards RealClimate is a finalist for "Best Science Blog" in this year's Weblog awards. As in years past, we are happy to have this chance to widen our readership over the voting period and we welcome anyone who is visiting for the first time... 3 Jan 09 Environmental reporters ought to be more responsible too At RealClimate, we have more than once been accused of being imbalanced — criticizing those who would deny the basic science of climate change, while leaving inflammatory statements by what might be called the "environmentalist side" without comment... 31 Dec 08 2008 Year in review Way back at the end of 2006, we did a review of the year's climate science discussion. It's that time of year again and so we've decided to give it another go. Feel free to suggest your own categories and winners… Most clueless US politician talking about climate change (with the exception of Senator Inhofe who'd [... 22 Dec 08 Books ?08 As is usual, we have a brief round-up of books we have found interesting or noteworthy this year. While we mainly focus on new books, we include a couple of new editions of older books, and of course, our previous reviews might still be of some interest (2005, 2006, and 2007)... 16 Dec 08 2008 temperature summaries and spin The great thing about complex data is that one can basically come up with any number of headlines describing it - all of which can be literally true - but that give very different impressions. Thus we are sure that you will soon read that 2008 was warmer than any year in the 20th Century [... 14 Dec 08 Ozone holes and cosmic rays Browsing through the blogosphere recently, I came across an interesting little story about the scientific method, scientific progress, and un-scientific spin (h/t Hank Roberts). The subject concerns the polar ozone hole in Antarctica and a possible role for cosmic rays in its variability on solar cycle timescales... 7 Dec 08 Contrarians and consensus: The case of the midwife toad I recently came across an old copy of Arthur Koestler's "The Case of the Midwife Toad". Originally published in 1971, it's an exploration of a rather tragic footnote in the history of evolutionary science... 30 Nov 08 Why don?t op-eds get fact checked? Debra Saunders is a conservative columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who has a history of writing misleading contrarian pieces on climate change. She contacted NASA Public Affairs recently for a comment on the initial glitch on the October GHCN numbers (see this earlier post for discussions of that)... 28 Nov 08 Not the IPCC (?NIPCC?) Report Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious "Heartland Institute" we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest 'assessment' of the science of climate change earlier this year [...
|
