WMO confirms 2010 hottest year

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

2010 was 0.01 degrees Celsius hotter than the number two hottest year 2005 and 0.02 degrees Celsius hotter than the third hottest year, 1998. Having combined the datasets of Met Office’s Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit (HadCRU), NOAA’s National Climatic Data … Continue reading →

NOAA: 2010 hottest year on record

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Indeed. Last year’s land surface temperature record is shared down to the second decimal with the year 2005, today’s NOAA report states.

Tibetan dust could lower Himalayan glacier albedo

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Changing wind patterns due to current climate changes sweep up more dust from the Tibetan Plateau, lake sediment measurements show. Jessica Conroy, a graduate student in paleoclimatology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, presented a dust record dating back … Continue reading →

GCM study finds no Arctic albedo tipping point

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

The albedo effect still acts as a positive feedback to warming and melting. In fact the general circulation model study shows Arctic sea ice melting will speed up over recent years. From 2020 to 2030 more than 2.5 million square … Continue reading →

Cloud feedback adds 50-100% to climate sensitivity

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

According to Atmospheric Sciences Professor Andrew Dessler, of Texas A&M University, in an interview with BBC’s Science in Action.

The 5 main results of Cancún

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

After the deception of Copenhagen, the news is progress was made at all. Just like in the Danish capital last year, also this year, during the climate conference in Cancún no legally binding new climate treaty, to replace the expiring … Continue reading →

WMO: 2010 ‘at least top 3’ hottest years ever

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

We were expecting news along similar lines from NASA later this month, but today, during the UN climate conference in Cancún, the World Meteorological Organisation [see special COP16 WMO page] decided to recognize the social relevance of timely sharing climatic … Continue reading →

Cancún starts, Greenland thaws

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Today COP16, the follow-up to last years UN climate conference in Copenhagen, starts in the Mexican city of Cancún. Also today Greenland sees record high temperatures.

2010: hottest year, Caribbean coral bleaching record

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

There is some big climate news under way. Negotiators in Cancún however can consider themselves fortunate that it will be at least another month before NASA scientists can announce their findings: 2010 will be the hottest year on record.

Getting practical on geoengineering: the cheapest way to lift 1 Mt of aerosols

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Aurora Flight Sciences recommends Aurora Flight Sciences. At least that’s what David Keith, Climate Professor at the University of Calgary and a leading expert on geoengineering leads to suspect in their joint cost analysis, published three weeks ago.

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