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.

Dutch climate warms 0.42 C per decade

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

An analysis by Dutch weather service MeteoVista (Dutch report | English coverage), using tens of thousands of meteorological measurements (by KNMI, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) shows the climate in the Netherlands has warmed by 0.42 degrees Celsius over the … Continue reading →

NASA: temperature is all about CO2

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Two new studies by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies help improve basic quantitative understanding of the Earth’s greenhouse system. The one, ‘CO2: The Thermostat that Controls Earth’s Temperature’, is a Goddard climate model based study (lead-author Andrew Lacis) to … Continue reading →

A little extra attention for 350 please

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Today is 10/10/10, global day of climate action. After the disappointments of Copenhagen – where UN emission targets (‘staying below 2 degrees requires stabilisation at 450 ppm,’ says IPCC 4AR) were not met by great margins – the global climate … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: climate feedbacks

Cloud feedback adds 50-100% to climate sensitivity

Dutch climate warms 0.42 C per decade

NASA: temperature is all about CO2

A little extra attention for 350 please