Dive right in: Why positive feedback doesn’t necessarily lead to runaway warming – Positive feedback happens when the response to some change amplifies that change. For example: The Earth heats up, and some of the sea ice near the poles…
Dive right in: And yet it works. Adam Corner on ‘ClimateGate’, transparency & peer-review. – “Open access is based on the premise that there are those outside the inner circle of peer reviewers who are competent enough to provide a…
Dive right in: Will 2010 be the hottest year on record? – it all depends on which data source you choose: GISTEMP (likely) or HadCRU (about as likely as not). Climate change is leaving us with extra space junk –…
Dive right in: Sustainability: Choices, choices, choices – great piece by the BBC’s Richard Black. Matt Ridley and the Holocene Optimum – Matt Ridley making elementary mistakes again, you’d think he has some sort of wider agenda. Oh, he has.…
Dive right in: Climate skeptic hides the incline in global temperatures – shock horror. Heat stress – setting a limit on what we can adapt to – if you didn”t know already, >7C temp rises will be bad, very bad.…
Dive right in: Climate Change: A Threat to Global Security. US & UK Defense agree. – “I am struck by how similar UK and U.S. thinking is on the national security implications of climate change. Our defense departments agree that…
Dive right in: SealevelGate – Real Climate cover the true IPCC sea-level scandal. Must read. Climate of fear, Nature editorial (free access) – “The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now…
Dive right in: RealClimate | IPCC errors: facts and spin Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb: Scientific American Richard Alley’s keynote at the 2009 AGU AGM – If you want a primer on the role of CO2 in the ancient…