Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A New Climate Epoch: The Hubrisocene | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations
How many examples of climate data being modified to meet models can you think of?
Energy: the reckoning to come
But energy policy, like so many other aspects of government, cannot be fudged forever. When the lights do go out – and that looks more likely than ever – there will be a reckoning. There will have to be.

Modern society cannot function without cheap energy and successive governments which have deliberately sought to increase costs for no good reasons need to be brought to account.
The New Nostradamus of the North: WWF Russia is worried about huge snow cover killing animals
For once the WWF is worried about a real environmental problem. WWF Russia reports that an up to two meter thick snow cover is killing animals in the country's far eastern regions
Important PNAS piece by Wunsch et al on need for...
Important PNAS piece by Wunsch et al on need for more long-haul data collection, including this line: “Today’s climate models will likely prove of little interest in 100 years. But adequately sampled, carefully calibrated, quality controlled, and archived data for key elements of the climate system will be useful indefinitely.”

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