C3: Will The U.S. Ever Warm? Past 12 Years Has U.S. Cooling At -6.60°F Per Century Rate

Of course it will warm again, but the decade-long plus global cooling trend has not abated. With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would also be cooling if they also had the level of temperature measuring coverage that the U.S. has.

“More and more concerned about our statement” « Climate Audit

In today’a post, I’m going to discuss a July 31, 2006 (725. 1154353922.txt) email from IPCC Lead Author Olga Solomina who sent the following email to Overpeck expressing “more and more concern” about the IPCC statement that “the Early Holocene was cool in the tropics” – an assertion that was critical to Overpeck’s “mortal blow” project

[Interesting stuff from a self-described "radical" biologist who was an IPCC lead author] | The University of Texas at Austin

[Camille] Parmesan, an associate professor of integrative biology, wasn't cynical at all when she first got involved, in the mid-1990s, with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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"One reason why I'm more radical than a lot of conservation biologists is that I work on species sensitive to climate change," she says.
"In terms of actual reduction of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, what had happened?" says Parmesan, who was one of the lead authors of the Third Assessment. "Very little. At the same time, the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted just kept going up and up and up. In fact, we kept exceeding our predictions. It radicalized me."
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Parmesan also held on to some residual hope that the public would begin to take the threat of warming seriously, particularly in reaction to the increase in dramatic weather events.

"I thought that the 2003 heat wave in Europe, followed by hurricanes Rita and Katrina, would change the mind of the American public," she says. "It seemed like for a few months it did, and then that consciousness just went away again."