| The Sun: O Inconstant Star! - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:14:07 +0000 |
| As solar activity declines and rate of global warming follows suit, it is natural to wonder whether the two are in some manner related.Science is all over the map on this one—and is hardly the “settled” stuff our greener friends want us to believe. One school holds that there is little-to-no detectable relationship between solar [...] |
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| The Problem with Proxies - Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:38:44 +0000 |
| There is a new paper (in press in the journal Geophysical Research Letters) that presents a lesson that we all should keep in mind—results based on reconstructions of climate phenomena that are based on once or twice removed “proxy” indicators, may not be as reliable as they appear (or as they are presented) to be. [...] |
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| The Changing Influence of Time - Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:53:01 +0000 |
| Since anyone first heard of global warming, we have been told that a warmer world would result in higher moisture levels in the atmosphere, and intensification of the hydrological cycle, and any number of negative consequences could result (e.g., more floods, more intense storms). A warmer world would almost surely mean more evapotranspiration (ET) [...] |
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