Jet exhaust as climate forcing Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The good folks over at the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project have published their paper about urban heat islands. It’s…
Category: Land use land cover change
A bridge in the climate debate – How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
This is one of the most important posts ever on WUWT, it will be a top “sticky” post for a few days, and new posts will appear below this one…
Inconvenient conclusions in a new climate and land use paper
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. sends word of this new paper now in early release at the Journal of Climate. The paper suggests humans have strong impacts on the local climate,…
Pielke Jr. on Hurricane Sandy – 'not the new normal'
Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. has authored an excellent essay in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that put the kibosh on the “new normal” meme seen here . As Pielke clearly shows, hurricanes…
Sea Ice Page Upgrades, Observations and Questions
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” In making a couple upgrades to the Sea Ice Page, I made a few observations, and a few questions arose. Firstly, several weeks ago…
More modeling madness: increased temperature 'may' cause more violent thunderstorms – but other studies show what they missed
From Tel Aviv University, another science press release with “could and may” qualifiers: Climate Change May Lead to Fewer — But More Violent — Thunderstorms Number of flash floods and…
Impact on temperature measurement: Cities expand by area equal to France, Germany and Spain combined in less than 20 years
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. points out on his weblog this interesting press release from IGBP (from March 2012) that we all apparently missed until now. One of the points worth…
CO2 Is Greening The Planet: African Savannahs Getting a Makeover to Forests
I’ve covered this before, such as when NASA posted satellite data showing that the biosphere is booming thanks to CO2 fertilization. This new study from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany…
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,…
RDU's paint by numbers temperature and climate monitoring
After reviewing over 1000 USHCN stations in the United States as part of my surfacestations.org project, I have often thought that I can’t find anymore surprises in the train wreck…
Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd,…
Study: 'green' biofuels could be costing the earth
From the University of Leicester department of inconvenient truths: New study suggests EU biofuels are as carbon intensive as petrol University of Leicester research into greenhouse gas emissions from oil…
Another significant land use effect found – sugar cane
It has long been known that changes in land use can affect local temperatures. Switching from forest to pastureland to a concrete jungle has a measurable effect. Here, we see…
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…
Some People Claim There’s a Human to Blame (GW Tiger)
Guest post by Ira Glickstein Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, But I know, it’s my own damn fault.. The original Jimmy Buffet lyrics say “woman to…
Bangladesh, the Poster Child
Guest post by: B.Quartero Bangladesh, the largest Delta in the world, has been the poster child of a scary sea level rise story ever since “An Inconvenient Truth”. There is…
UAH and UHI
Note: clearly satellites can see urban heat, as demonstrated by this recent paper unveiled at the 2010 AGU meeting by NASA. See: Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast.…
NYT's sort-of-clarity on Norfolk sinking aka "sea level rise" and an inconvenient map
This is a map and photo of Sharp’s Island and its sinking lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay, we’ll get back to that after the main article about Norfolk. GreenHell Blog writes:…
Kilimanjaro's snow – it's about land use change, tree cutting
From the we told you so, twice, no make that three times, department, the poster child for climate change is cited in the New Scientist where they say a peer…
Christy on irrigation and regional temperature effects
In this recent post I discussed a paper on regional temperature divergence issues related to irrigation from Dr. John Christy saying: New irrigation effects study counter to what Christy discovered This…
New irrigation effects study counter to what Christy discovered
This press release below from Columbia University shown below suggests that irrigation cools the region undergoing irrigation. However, a study published three years ago of California’s central valley by Dr.…
The Big Valley: Altitude Bias in GHCN
Foreword: The focus of this essay is strictly altitude placement/change of GHCN stations. While challenge and debate of the topic is encouraged, please don’t let the discussion drift into other…
New Study Examines Effects of Drought in the Amazon
From Woods Hole Research Institute: Click on image for larger view. (Left) Average dry-season enchanced vegetation index (EVI) across central South America for the period 2000–2008. Overlaid circles represent average…
Corn as a local climate forcing
How corn may be helping Michigan keep its cool From the “corn is not climate” department and David Veselenak, The Grand Rapids Press Grand Rapids hasn’t seen the thermometer break…
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