Dana's GWPF* optimism on climate sensitivity is ill-founded attracted the highest number of comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Global warming not slowing - it's speeding up by James Wright drew the second highest number of comments. Coming in third was Climate change and sensitivity: not all Watts are equal by John Abraham.
*GWPF = Global Warming Policy Foundation, a UK anti-climate policy advocacy group.
h/t to I Heart Climate Scientists
"We need to understand where carbon goes, how much of it goes into the organic matter, how that affects the air-sea exchanges of CO2 and what happens to fossil fuel we have emitted from our tailpipes," said Siegal*. "Quantifying this carbon flux is critical for predicting the atmosphere's response to changing climates."
*David Siegel, Director of the Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara,
How do oceans absorb carbon dioxide? Scientists find clues. by
Also see: A new study by a UCSB oceanographer assesses the role of the ocean’s biological pump in the global carbon cycle by Julie Cohen, Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara, Mar 11, 2014
U.S. Sen, Barbara Boxer (D-CA) stated the following in her article, Lessons From the Senate's Climate Change All-nighter, The Huffington Post.
"Ninety-seven percent of climate experts now say with virtual certainty that the planet is warming due mainly to human activities which have increased the amount of carbon pollution in our air. The level of scientific certainty on man-made climate change is about the same as the consensus among top scientists that cigarettes are deadly."
The SkS graphic, Where's the Global Warming going is embedded Melanie Fitzpatrick's article, Four climate change facts to keep the US Senate up all night posted on the RenewEconomy website.
Adnan Al-Daini begins his op-ed, Climate Change: The Science Is Robust, Accept it and Act with a reference to the SkS article, Skeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature.
In a blog post, The Skeptical Science Attack: Where My Professional World and My Vocation Converge, Jan Galkowski opines about the hack of SkS as detailed in the ongoing series of articles by Bob Lacatena.
Raveena Aulakh extensively quotes John Cook in her Toronto Star article, Tony Abbott: the boxer picking a fight with the environment
The TCP is referenced by U.S. Sen, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in his speech on the Senate floor during the course of the Up4Climate event hosted the Senate Climate Action Task Force. A video of the full session can be viewed courtesy of C-SPAN2, and is also searchable by speaker and keyword.
Graham P. Wayne links to the SkS rebuttal, Over 31,000 scientists signed the OISM Petition Project in his op-ed, Reject bogus Oregon-based survey on climate change posted on OregonLive.com.
The mission of the Earth Research Institute (ERI) of the University of California Santa Barbara is to support research and education in the sciences of our solid, fluid, and living Earth.
ERI's areas of research comprise Natural Hazards, Human Impacts, Earth System Science, and Earth Evolution.
ERI was formed in July of 2011 through the merger of the Institute for Crustal Studies and the Institute for Computational Earth System Science.
ERI strives to build upon the existing research strengths of our founding units while fostering new interdisiciplinary collaborations examining how Earth processes affect mankind and how mankind perturbs the Earth.
The discussion of the Shindell results contained in Dana's article, GWPF optimism on climate sensitivity is ill-founded has been incorporated into the Advanced rebuttal to the myth 'climate sensitivity is low'.
Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 16 March, 2014
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