Quantifying climate change – not so certain?
Olive Heffernan In the latest issue of Nature Reports Climate Change, there’s an interesting Commentary by a group of atmospheric scientists who argue that, in assessing the skill of climate models by...
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A tribute to the trees
For all tree huggers out there, this week’s Science is dedicated to ‘forests in flux’, paying tribute to the trees and their contribution to the greater good. A special collection of articles in...
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The global warming signal minus the El Niño noise
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times has been wondering whether climatologists could help turn down the “rhetorical noise” on recent temperature trends: Given how much yelling takes place on the...
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Bryter Layter?
The skies over most land areas are not, as previous studies have suggested, becoming cleaner. Aerosol pollution has in fact increased most everywhere since 1973, a team reports in Science today...
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The wheel of climate fortune
This week’s Nature has an extended climate special made of original research papers, features, commentaries, editorials, essays and book reviews. Here’s the content at a glance. An uplifting read the...
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Development community must accept uncertainty
Uncertainty in regional climate projections isn’t going away, and that’s an inconvenient truth the development community will have to face, says Christoph Müller of the Potsdam Institute for Climate...
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Warming speeds carbon release from peat
Northern peatlands, typical for subarctic Scandinavia and Russia, contain one third of the world’s soil organic carbon. How much extra carbon these soils will release to the atmosphere, through...
View ArticleThe real holes in climate science
When I started working last month on a news feature about gaps in climate science I was expecting a tough reporting job. Too fresh, so I thought, were the scars the field and many leading scientists...
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The climate machine
Olive Heffernan Last November, I took a trip to Exeter to visit the UK Met Office. The purpose of my visit was to meet with Chris Jones, a climate modeller at the Met Office’s climate-change branch,...
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Sea level rise: defence and development
Olive Heffernan Last week, I posted here on sea level rise and what’s in store for the 21st Century. Among scientists, that’s still a contentious issue, with current estimates ranging from about 18 cm...
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