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Tag Archives: El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Globe and Mail Personal Attack by “Eyes Wide Open”
In commentary at the Globe and Mail to the article “Cheap and dirty: Where provinces diverge on energy crossroads“, user “Eyes Wide Open” states at 8:23 PM on September 12, 2011 You’ve gotta laugh! Here we have Alan Burke talking … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Climate change, Earth, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Environment, globalwarming, Globe & Mail, Greenland
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Sea Level – Bump in the road
NASA reports that the recent decline in sea level is the direct consequence of a shift from El Niño and La Niña in the Pacific. Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand as they warm. This, along with melting … Continue reading
Climate cycles drive civil war
Tropical conflicts double during El Niño years. Natural climate cycles seem to have a striking influence on war and peace around the equator. Tropical countries face double the risk of armed conflict and civil war breaking out during warm, dry … Continue reading
Early warning of climate tipping points
A climate ‘tipping point’ occurs when a small change in forcing triggers a strongly nonlinear response in the internal dynamics of part of the climate system, qualitatively changing its future state. Human-induced climate change could push several large-scale ‘tipping elements’ … Continue reading
Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008
Given the widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations, it has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008. We find that this hiatus in warming coincides with a period … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerosol, Anthropization, Climate, Climate change, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, globalwarming, Greenhouse gas, La Niña, Temperature
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2010 Russia heat wave due to natural variability, say U.S. scientists
The 2010 Russian heat wave that killed thousands and cut into that country’s grain harvest was primarily due to natural variability, not human-spurred climate change, U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The 2010 Russian heat wave that killed thousands and cut into … Continue reading
NASA Satellites Capture a Stronger La Nina
New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Niña event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010. A new Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 satellite image of the Pacific Ocean that averaged 10 days of … Continue reading
State of the Climate Global Analysis Annual 2010
2011-01-12 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center Global Highlights For 2010, the combined global land and ocean surface temperature tied with 2005 as the warmest such period on record, at 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20th century average … Continue reading
Global Surface Temperature Change
The world is not cooling and warming has not slowed down appreciably. 2010-12-14 Hansen, J., R. Ruedy, M. Sato, and K. Lo (2010), GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE, Rev. Geophys., 48, RG4004, doi:10.1029/2010RG000345. We update the Goddard Institute for Space Studies … Continue reading
Climate Shifts Changing New Weather “Normals”
2011-01-07 Scientific American, Climatewire As the new decade opens up, researchers are gathering data that will redefine weather pattern averages for the nation [USA] NEW NORMAL: In the past decade, January average minimum temperatures rose nationally by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, … Continue reading
How will Earth’s surface temperature change in future decades?
2009-08-15 GRL: How will Earth’s surface temperature change in future decades? , doi:10.1029/2009GL038932 Reliable forecasts of climate change in the immediate future are difficult, especially on regional scales, where natural climate variations may amplify or mitigate anthropogenic warming in ways … Continue reading
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