BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: Did Al Gore and the IPCC deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Discuss.
According to the eponymous Alfie, a Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded 'to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses'.Fantastic High Resolution Video of Sea Ice « the Air Vent
So what's it doing in the hands of Al Gore and the IPCC, wonders Dr Jon Barnett in the latest edition of the journal Climatic Change.
The advantage of these videos over my own is a much higher resolution which really reveals the flow patterns of the sea ice. You can see the currents in the Arctic push in through the Bearing strait melting away the ice in the summer.Worrying About the Amazon | Climate Skeptic
Over the last 30 years, the area has seen a temperature trend of about a half degree C (less than one degree F) per century. I included the more recent trend in green because the first thing I always hear back is “well, the trend may have been low in the past, but it is accelerating!” In fact, most of this warming trend was in the first half of the period — since 1995 the trend has been negative more than a degree per century.
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While the drought of 2005 was not necessarily a portend of climate change and the cooling trend so small that it probably was not related to this episode one should remeber that paleo-climatology tells us that the Amazon dries out and shrink in cold climates and expands in warm climates (there is a good discussion of this in Ian Plimmer's book Heaven and Earth).
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