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…
Category: Land use land cover change
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…
U.S. Forest Service embraces climate change
No word on Smokey bear’s new duties yet, but maybe they’ll make him do a new public service pitch, maybe something like this: Above: a parody image, see WUWT story…
The Union of Concerned Scientists tackles gardening to save the planet
From a press release from the Union of Concerned Scientists, we learn that you don’t need to worry anymore about global warming, we can just garden our way to carbon…
Taiwan sinking: Subsidence or Global Warming Induced Sea Level Rise?
This news story about Taiwan has been making the rounds with the usual alarming news outlets. My view is clearly on subsidence, caused by poor land use practice. See below…
Corned grief: biofuels may increase CO2
From the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t department”. More Maize Ethanol May Boost Greenhouse Gas Emissions From the American Institute of Biological Sciences Read the full article…
UCAR: Roof white out helps UHI
I find it humorous thatUCAR had to resort to modeling to prove something that can be measured empirically. But then again this is UCAR, and they have a big computer…
Save the planet from GHG's – use astroturf?
Now according to this press release from UC Irvine, green spaces in cities are bad for the planet….but wait, what about the UHI offset? Can I buy grass credit certificates?…
Intensive land-management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
Away from Climategate and back to science, here’s something interesting fingering land use as an issue. This is from the Max Planck Society. A new calculation of Europe’s greenhouse gas…
Georgia Tech: "50 percent of the [USA] warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes rather than greenhouse gases"
From a Georgia Tech Press Release: Reducing Greenhouse Gases May Not Be Enough to Slow Climate Change Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in…
USA Today: Expanding cities contribute to global warming
From Roger Pielke Sr. A very good news article titled Expanding cities contribute to global warming by Doyle Rice has been published on USA Today. The article is based on…
Quote of the week #22 – Experts say that fears surrounding climate change are overblown
The Times posted a surprising story this weekend that has skeptics cheering and alarmists hopping mad. It’s deja vu all over again. (See QOTW#21) Roger Pielke Sr. will be happy,…
New study shows how local land use changes can affect surface temperature
Study gives clearer picture of how land-use changes affect U.S. climate from a Purdue University press release Researchers say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting that…
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