From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and announcement that comes at a very inconvenient time for IPCC and Pachauri while their “Glaciergate” issue rages. Aerosols and black carbon are tagged as…
Category: Aerosols
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Why Hasn't Earth Warmed as Much as Expected?
From the BNL press release, some serious questions about climate sensitivity and aerosols. Why Hasn’t Earth Warmed as Much as Expected? New report on climate change explores the reasons January…
Swiss ETH: Glaciers melted in the 1940's faster than today
From ETH Zurich: The stupefying pace of glacier melt in the 1940s The most recent studies by researchers at ETH Zurich show that in the 1940s Swiss glaciers were melting…
CRU's Phil Jones: "Maybe because I'm in my 50s, but the language used in the forecasts seems a bit over the top re the cold."
The Powerline blog has done an excellent job of summarizing the issues surrounding the Climatgate/CRUtape Letters in the past couple of days. Since they reference WUWT in the most recent…
Aerosols and "cloud lifetime effect" cited as "enormous uncertainty" in global radiation balance
From a Press Release from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Do dust particles curb climate change? A knowledge gap exists in the area of climate research: for decades, scientists…
Man made air pollution helps iron deficient ocean
From a University of Leeds Press Release Acidic clouds nourish world’s oceans Published Friday 2nd October 09 Acidic clouds are feeding bioavailable iron to the oceans – a discovery which…
The Australian dust storm as seen from space – Dry lake Eyre not Global Warming?
There’s been quite a bit of buzz about the dust storm in Australia that hit Queensland, New South Wales, and NSW city Sydney on September 23rd. Pictures like the ones…
Royal Society wants man-made volcanoes to fight climate change
Here’s an interesting story from the Times. One wonders if the Royal Society is ready to deal with all the unintended and unmodeled consequences of such actions? The last man-made…
Global dimming and brightening in the context of solar radiation
From the abstract of the lead paper by Martin Wild: Recent evidence suggests that solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface has not been constant over time but has undergone substantial…
Soot And The Arctic Ice – A Win-Win Policy Based On Chinese Coal Fired Power Plants
Via Roger Pielke Senior’s new and improved Climate Science Blog: Kiminori Itoh of Yokohama National University has prepared a guest weblog for us. It is titled: “Soot And The Arctic…
A link between the Sun, cosmic rays, aerosols, and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale…
Svensmark has a new paper and it is a doozy: Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds (full text PDF). The major conclusion: “A link between the Sun, cosmic…
Message in the CLOUD for Warmists: The end is near?
You’ve probably all heard of Svensmark and the Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) to cloud cover modulation theory by now. Lot’s of warmists say it is “discredited”. However, CERN in Switzerland…
NASA GISS suggests aerosols play a large role in Arctic warming
The Discovery Channel has “shark week”. With all the Arctic news items on WUWT, this is beginning to feel like “polar week”. Here’s an article about aerosols having an impact…
Mt. Redoubt Eruptions – What Effect If Any on the Summer? Winter?
By Joe D’Aleo CCM ICECAP Monday, April 6, 2009 Starting on March 22, a series of major eruptions have taken place from Mt. Redoubt in Alaska. The biggest exceeded 65,000…
Dust study suggests only 30% of Atlantic temp increase due to warming climate
(From PhysOrg.com h/t to Leif Svalgaard) — The recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30…
Mt. Redoubt in Alaska erupts
Video of the sixth eruption, from the Alaska Volcano observatory webcam system. (h/t to Ron De Haan) There is sound in this video. As first noticed by WUWT commenter Crosspatch…
Cosmic Ray Flux and Neutron monitors suggest we may not have hit solar minimum yet
There’s some interesting information of the six month trend of neutrons being detected globally that I want to bring to discussion, but first I thought that a primer on cosmic…
Blue sky research reveals trends in air pollution, clears way for new climate change studies
These two satellite images show how aerosols can obscure the land and sea beneath, blocking incoming sunlight. On the top, aerosols over northeastern India and Bangladesh partially obscure the Ganges…
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