Dana's Yes Happer and Spencer, Global Warming Continues started the week by rebutting another anti-science letter published in the Wall Street Jounal. Alex C posted Part I of Why David Archibald is wrong about solar cycles driving sea levels and Dana posted Part II of Monckton Misleads California Lawmakers - Now It's Personal .
H/T to Joe Romm's Climate Progress
"It follows from this that the radiation from the earth into space does not go on directly from the ground, but on the average from a layer of the atmosphere having a considerable height above sea-level. The height of that layer depends on the thermal quality of the atmosphere, and will vary with that quality. The greater is the absorbing powerof the air for heat rays emitted from the ground, the higher will that layer be. But the higher the layer, the lower is its temperature relatively to that of the ground; and as radiation from the layer into space is the less the lower its temperature is, it follows that the ground will be hotter the higher the radiating layer is."
From a paper presented to the Royal Meteorological Society at its Jubilee on April 3, 1900, by Nils Ekholm. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. XXVII, No. 117, pp. 1-61, 1901.
H/T to Riccardo.
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A complete listing of the articles posted on SkS during the past week.
A list of articles that are in the SkS pipeline. Most of these articles, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week.
Dana's Monckton Misleads California Lawmakers - Now It's Personal was re-posted on Citizen's Challenge, and Yes Happer and Spencer, Global Warming Continues was re-posted on Climate Progress.
The #12 most popular climate myth - that CO2 lags temperature, and therefore CO2 doesn't cause global warming - has been debunked in greater detail by Shakun et al. (2012). Although the initial global warming during glacial-interglacial transitions was triggered by orbital cycles, over 90% of the glacial-interglacial warming occurred after the CO2 increase. We will explore this finding in greater detail in Shakun et al. Clarify the CO2-Temperature Lag.
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is a 10-year research initiative launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP).
CCAFS seeks to overcome the threats to agriculture and food security in a changing climate, exploring new ways of helping vulnerable rural communities adjust to global changes in climate.
Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 9 April, 2012
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