by Judith Curry
Mother Jones has an article entitled “CIA’s Weather Underground.” Its closing sentence:
In this political climate, it’s no wonder the CIA declined to discuss its global-warming research for this article. For the time being, the climate spooks have gone underground.
Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy
by Judith Curry
Update: response from Jared Diamond.
Several years ago, I read with great interest Jared Diamond’s book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. The starkest example in the book was the ecological collapse of Easter Island.
Mark Lynas has written a provocative essay that argues that “recent archaeological work suggests that the eco-collapse hypothesis is almost certainly wrong – and that the truth is far more shocking.”
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by Judith Curry
John and Michel are hypothetical pub owners in Britain and France. Lenny Smith asks the following questions:
Can today’s science tell John what +4 degrees would be like for his pub? Or his insurer? (or their reinsurer?) Or better still “climate-proof” his business? Is it a question of mere probabilities? Or might models see a “Big Surprise”? How to best manage Expectations (Theirs) and Credibility (Ours) ? Why is this so hard? Should Michel care about global mean temperature?
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by Judith Curry
I’m in Boulder, attending the NOAA Water Cycle Science Challenge Workshop. The Workshop now has a website, which includes the plenary presentations.
Posted in Climate change impacts
by Judith Curry
Next week, I will be in Boulder attending a workshop on the topic of understanding and predicting conditions associated with either too much or too little water.
Posted in Climate change impacts, climate models
by Judith Curry
In my congressional testimony, I discussed the idea of climate change winners and losers. In the Arctic, where climate is changing most rapidly, will there be winners or losers?
Posted in Climate change impacts, Polar regions, Policy
by Judith Curry
The Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School and the Republic of the Marshall Islands recently co-sponsored a conference on “Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of a Changing Climate.”
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by Judith Curry
Pursuant to the controversy surrounding the last analysis of sea level rise from the University of Colorado, I spotted this article entitled “What will climate change and sea level rise mean for barrier islands?”
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by Judith Curry
The latest analysis of sea ice extent by the NSIDC shows that early June sea ice extent is lower than corresponding 2007 value. A recent article at Yale360 discusses how as Arctic sea ice retreats, storms take toll on the land.
Posted in Climate change impacts, Polar regions
by Judith Curry
Pursuant to the issues raised on the previous food (in)security thread, I spotted this article published by Lester Brown in Foreign Affairs. The subtitle of the article is “From the middle east to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st century food wars.”
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by Judith Curry
A recent NYTimes article highlighted the issue of climate change impact on global food insecurity. Roger Pielke Jr has criticizes this analysis in several posts [here and here], arguing that recent extreme weather events are not attributable to AGW and that self-reported food insecurity is at odds with model results from the FAO and USDA. Lets take a deeper look at the issue of food security, and place climate change in a broader context of this complex issue.
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by Judith Curry
Oops, I didn’t intend to publish that thread with a few notes (accidentally pushed the publish button rather than the save), but it seems like people are interested in the topic, so lets make this a food discussion thread. A full thread to follow in a few days.
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by Judith Curry
This post is motivated by the article in the Asian Correspondent by Gavin Atkins entitled “What happened to the climate refugees?”
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by Judith Curry
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) international environmental treaty (1992) states as its objective:
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