Yes, 20cm is closer to what I'd expect - that's what the UK government reports - see (PDF): http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/POST-PN-363.pdf As for...
Hi An interesting article from one of our papers: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10859781 love and blessings Sylvia...
A record heatwave in 2011 completely killed off a seaweed species in one bay and over 1/20 of the area it covers worldwide, finds Dan Smale of the University...
Depends upon where you live. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/brrrrrrrr-last-year-coldest-three-decades-anchorage ... [Non-text portions of this message...
Climate change will mutate viruses naturally, so we ask about the possibility of aluminum in Pandemrix's adjuvant: Yahoo News 22 Jan 2013: Insight: Evidence...
150 years since Henry David Thoreau observed them, plants flower three weeks earlier thanks to climate change, find Boston University39;s Libby Ellwood and her...
Warm years limit flu transmission, but that makes us more susceptible to the virus the following season, explains Sherry Towers at Arizona State University,...
Even as the world warms, stronger high pressures have driven extreme cold events happening since the 1990s in Europe and Asia, says Xiangdong Zhang at...
A study calling on 8326 weather stations has confirmed that annual precipitation highs are intensifying by around 7% per 1°C warming, explains University of...
A new combined approach to a new global currency and a new global carbon dioxide emission permitting regime For two and a half decades now, we have been...
Greenhouse gases currently trapped in the frozen soil risk release past a 1.5°C temperature threshold for melting at the permafrost boundary, found in a...
A rise in temperatures that caused the last major global defrost has now been placed in the same 150-year window as an accompanying CO2 increase by Frédéric...
Hi We have just had our driest January on record in many places, and one of our hottest Christmas Days. Apparently it was the same in Buenos Aires. Global...
11,000 years during which human civilisation has emerged have not seen temperatures `even close' to what model forecasts predict, a record built by Shaun...
In the 19th century, the newly-divorced Svante Arrhenius threw himself into epic calculations on how CO2 and water vapour could team to control Earth's...
Models show that a warmer eastern tropical Atlantic at the end of the 21st century spawns hurricanes that are more likely to head to Europe, with the current...
Ocean warming is speeding up below 700m, where most previous studies haven't been able to reach, say Kevin Trenberth from NCAR and his colleagues, which helps...
Failure to model a climate fingerprint from 5 million years ago thought to be similar to what we can expect in the warmer future must be resolved, say...
Creating and averaging thousands of slightly different historic temperature records shows that Northern hemisphere 21st century warmth is almost certainly...
David Stainforth from the London School of Economics and his colleagues have developed a new way to analyse weather data and understand whether temperatures...
Then, there is always the possibility of hot air --- "...While the Economist referred to some unpublished work, it missed a new paper by Balmaseda et al....
Yes, I think this is mentioned in my blog entry: "Subtropical trade winds have become noticeably stronger, thereby increasing the subtropical overturning in...
A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van...
The longest continuous Arctic land sediment core shows that the last time CO2 levels reached current levels, over 2.6 million years ago, North-East Russia was...
The first evidence that climate change has affected fishing catches, revealed by William Cheung from the University of British Columbia and his team, shows...