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Tag: Land use
An Unexplored Source of Climate Change: Land Evapotranspiration Changes Over Time.
This Model was created to encourage scientist to collect the information necessary to determine the Earth’s ET change over time, the area of “special parcels” and plume size. This Model…
Right, New York Times, Biofuels Are Bad for the Environment
Biofuels are neither a practical nor desirable replacement for fossil fuels, even if they needed replacing, which they don’t.
Lake Mead Low Water Levels, Part 2: Colorado River Inflow Variations and Trend
Contrary to claims that drought is causing Lake Mead water levels to fall, the Colorado River natural flows into Lake Mead show no long-term trend since 1930.
The Big 5 Natural Causes of Climate Change: part 4 Landscape Changes
Although most landscape changes are caused by humans, the intent here is show how landscape changes largely account for the land’s temperature trends that have been incorrectly blamed on rising…
Where have all the Clouds gone and why care?
By Charles Blaisdell PhD ChE The earth’s cloud cover has long been an important puzzle in climate change. Cloud cover has many types and varies significantly from year to year. …
Cities boosted rain, sent storms to the suburbs during Europe’s deadly summer floods
“At more local scales, there are immediate ways to develop climate resiliency where you don’t have to wait for 100-plus nations signing on to declarations,” Niyogi said. “It’s something you…
Climate Change and Land: discussion thread
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on August 10, 2019 by curryja by Judith Curry Discussion thread on the new IPCC Report on Climate Change and Land. The…
What’s really killing the Coral Reefs?
From ScienceAlert! There’s Another Thing Killing The Coral Reefs, And We Can Actually Fix This Problem CARLY CASSELLA 17 JUL 2019 Coral reefs are one of the most threatened ecosystems…
Our Urban “Climate Crisis”
By Jim Steele Published in Pacifica Tribune May 14, 2019 What’s Natural Our Urban “Climate Crisis” Based on a globally averaged statistic, some scientists and several politicians claim we are…
Heating up in Huntsville – the discovery of FHI?
WUWT reader BarryW found this on the Huntsville Office of the State Climatologist, operated by our friend, Dr. John Christy and left it in Tips and Notes. First Christy’s article,…
More proof that Kilimanjaro's problems are man-made; but not what some think it is
More proof positive that land use change has more to do with Kilimanjaro’s diminishing snowfall (due to reduced evapotranspiraton of surrounding land) than climate change. But, will we ever see…