by Jack Rosebro
A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. The report points out that many key [...]
The huge pile of emails purloined or leaked from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) last week does indeed “give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics,” as the Wall Street Journal [...]
For those who are following the controversy being spun up over hacked e-mails and files from the Climatic Research Unit directed by climate scientist Phil Jones at the University of East Anglia, here are a few news and commentary sources we have found worth reading. Climate Science Watch earlier posted [...]
An excerpt:
No, there was no bombshell communiqué proving global warming to be an elaborate hoax.
But the e-mails do seem to document a coordinated, stunningly unscientific effort to quell dissent on the question.
CRU scientists and their colleagues, it appears:
* Coordinated efforts to oust journal editors who [...]
The completion of a high-quality sequence of the maize (corn) genome was announced in the cover story of the 20 November issue of Science. This new maize sequence provides significant refinements over the draft sequence that was announced in February 2008, including the elimination of redundancy and improvements in [...]
Air pollution may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports, according to a new study published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.
In the new study, Suzanne Paulson and colleagues note that scientists have known for years [...]
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I have just come from the rainforest, and things are not looking good. Old forests continue to needlessly fall, even as [...]
Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great Beyond
The world’s carbon dioxide ‘sinks’ are not able to keep up with the amount of the greenhouse gas being produced, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience.
Reviewing the recent literature Corinne Le Quéré, of the University of East Anglia, and colleagues report [...]
Four centuries ago, “heretics” who disagreed with Church orthodoxy were burned at the stake. Many were the dissenting views that could send offenders to a [...]
A report detailing the carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in 2008 was recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Despite a recession in 2008, the worldwide carbon dioxide emissions rose, predominantly due to China.
In 2008, the worldwide totals for carbon dioxide emissions rose two percent. In [...]
Despite the economic effects of the global financial crisis (GFC), carbon dioxide emissions from human activities rose 2% in 2008 to an all-time high of 1.3 tonnes of carbon per capita per year, according to a new paper published by an international team of 31 scientists in Nature Geoscience.
The [...]
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $8 million to Argonne National Laboratory for detailed design work for a new, world-class energy research facility. This is the first step in beginning work on what is expected to be a $95 million construction project.
The Energy Sciences Building (ESB) [...]
A team of researchers studying glaciers in Greenland recently published their study in the journal Science. The researchers used satellite data provided by the twin satellites of the Grace satellite mission. The satellites are able to provide detailed data pertaining to the Earth’s surface using gravity [...]
Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science. Collaborating on the paper were scientists from Utrecht University, the Netherlands Royal Meteorological Institute, Delft University of Technology, Bristol [...]
The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and non-profit Climate Central, funded a recent study regarding record high and low temperatures across the United States. The researchers involved came from Climate Central, The Weather Channel, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Center [...]
When doing science, there's generally one totally optimal way of performing an experiment. But, there may also be several other less optimal means of gathering similar data, and one of those may be much more feasible than the totally optimal method. As a scientist, you have [...]
