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The climate of the climate change debate is changing

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The climate of the climate change debate is changing

Quantifying how greenhouse gases contribute to extreme weather is a crucial step in calculating the cost of human influence

Related Links:

Climate Variability and Climate Change: The New Climate Dice
https://pragwater.com/2012/06/27/climate-variability-and-climate-change-the-new-climate-dice/

Study links global warming to Texas heat waves
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/10/4621303/study-links-global-warming-to.html

Scientists attribute extreme weather to man-made climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/10/extreme-weather-manmade-climate-change?CMP=twt_fd

Crazy summer is a result of ‘global weirding’, not warming
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1-120738-Crazy-summer-is-a-result-of-%E2%80%98global-weirding%E2%80%99-not-warming

State of the Climate – NOAA’s June Report
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/

A New Climate Science Resource from the National Academies

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A New Climate Science Resource from the National Academies

The National Academies, the nation’s preeminent independent scientific advisory body, has released a series of videos building on themes laid out in its America’s Climate Choices reports over the past couple of years. Above, you can watch the material as a single long video. Below you can find links to seven themed sections:

Chapter 1: What is Climate?

Chapter 2: Is Earth Warming?

Chapter 3: Greenhouse Gases

Chapter 4: Increased Emissions

Chapter 5: How Much Warming?

Chapter 6: Solar Influence

Chapter 7: Natural Cycles

There’s plenty more on Dot Earth related to these reports. And of course there’s plenty here on the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.

Marejada Espacio Ambiental por Sea Grant

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Marejada Espacio Ambiental por Sea Grant

Marejada surge como un medio de comunicación enfocado en educar a los hispanoparlantes acerca de la importancia de proteger nuestros mares y océanos de los complejos procesos climáticos y antropogénicos que los amenazan.

Following the Ice: Is this Global Warming?

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Following the Ice: Is this Global Warming?

Good article!

Long term temperature record reconstructed

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Long term temperature record reconstructed

CAN SPECIFIC EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS BE TIED TO CLIMATE CHANGE – RESEARCHER THINKS YES

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Climate Variability and Climate Change: The New Climate Dice

Solar data available for the northern Caribbean

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Solar data available for the northern Caribbean

Daily and hourly data are available for download. The download site also includes images of yesterday’s solar radiation for Puerto Rico (INSOLRICO.JPG) and Hispaniola (INSOLCARB.JPG). Some example data are given below.

 

Climate Change is Simple

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THE WORLD WITHOUT THE INTERNET

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World without Internet
Via: OnlineEducation.net

Tim O’Reilly: Towards a global brain

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The concept of the global brain has been around since the beginning of the last century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain).  I remember back in the early 1980’s, my mother-in-law, Jane Howard Edmonds, was promoting the concept by sharing a VHS video tape on the subject with her friends and family.   Since then, the concept has become closer to a reality as described by Tim O’Reilly.