Tag Archives: Columbia University

New PR claim from Columbia extrapolates globally from a handfull of weather stations

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

From Columbia University , something that made my B.S. meter ping. My first thought was that evaporation pans aren’t new, going back to the beginning of the U.S. Weather Bureau  COOP network, so what is this all about? Typical standardized … Continue reading →

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Flu forecasts using weather, not climate

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

Flu outbreaks predicted with weather forecast techniques BOULDER—Scientists at Columbia University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have adapted techniques used in modern weather prediction to generate local forecasts of seasonal influenza outbreaks. By predicting the timing and severity … Continue reading →

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Glaciergate post script – they’ll shrink anyway

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

From Brigham Young University and the “IPCC, take your 2035 and shove it” department comes this study: Himalayan glaciers will shrink even if temperatures hold steady Come rain or shine, or even snow, some glaciers of the Himalayas will continue … Continue reading →

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Climate negotiations relying on ‘dangerous’ thresholds to avoid catastrophe will not succeed

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

From the University of Gothenburg , some appearance of sanity. The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius seems not to have helped the climate negotiations so … Continue reading →

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‘Counterintuitive finding suggests that unexpected factors may govern a glacier’s response to climate change’

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

From the University at Buffalo, new evidence that large ice sheets can grow/disappear quickly on decadal scales in response to regional temperature changes. A descriptive video follows. How fast can ice sheets respond to climate change? Scientists report that prehistoric … Continue reading →

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Trees do 8 times better in the New York City Urban Heat Island

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

From the The Earth Institute at Columbia University Do urban ‘heat islands’ hint at trees of future? Common oaks get a boost in New York’s Central Park City streets can be mean, but somewhere near Brooklyn, a tree grows far … Continue reading →

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NASA chief scientist Waleed Abdalati is clueless about what James Hansen is doing with his position at GISS

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

UPDATE: 11:30AM 4/12/12 Predictably, Andrew Revkin from the New York Times joins in with the poo-pooing consensus saying it is “utterly unremarkable ” (yet he writes a article about it – go figure). From Revkin’s shuttered in world of living … Continue reading →

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Death Valley’s Big Bang Theory

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

From the The Earth Institute at Columbia University Waiting for Death Valley’s Big Bang A volcanic explosion crater may have future potential In California’s Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe … Continue reading →

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La Niña and flu

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

From the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Does the La Niña weather pattern lead to flu pandemics? Worldwide pandemics of influenza caused widespread death and illness in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009. A new study examining weather patterns … Continue reading →

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Ocean temperatures can predict Amazon fire season severity

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

From the  NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center GREENBELT, Md. — By analyzing nearly a decade of satellite data, a team of scientists led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine and funded by NASA has created a model that can … Continue reading →

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Shock news: trees grow better in a warmer climate with more carbon dioxide

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

The geniuses at Columbia University’s Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory have discovered Liebigs Law of the Minimum. The tree researcher exclaims: “I was expecting to see trees stressed from the warmer temperatures,”…“What we found was a surprise.” Trees on Tundra’s Border … Continue reading →

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That darned warm-mongering El Niño

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

From the warm-mongers at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, a study that says El Niño drives civil war. Perhaps we can get Bob Tisdale to plot temperature anomalies along the Mason-Dixon line. It seems however that these warm-mongers at … Continue reading →

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A little known 20 40 year old climate change prediction by Dr. James Hansen – that failed will likely fail badly

Posted on October 22, 2009 by

UPDATE: Thanks to a tip from Willis Eschenbach, there’s some developing news in that story from Dr. James Hansen. The Salon interviewee and book author, Rob Reiss that I quoted, now admits he somehow conflated 40 years with 20 years, … Continue reading →

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