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4th Feb 2012 > So What?s A Teacher to Do?
Guest Commentary by Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education Imagine you?re a middle-school science teacher, and you get to the section of the course where you?re to talk about climate change. You mention the ?C? words, and two students walk out of the class. Or you mention global warming and a hand shoots up. [...]
1st Feb 2012 > Unforced Variations: February 2012
This month’s open thread. Current topics are focused on the laughingly bad Daily Mail article by David Rose, the fallout from the Wall Street Journal’s latest regurgitation of why no-one should ever do anything ever. And perhaps someone might want to audit some of David Whitehouse’s arithmetic and reading comprehension… Or anything else. Within reason.
29th Jan 2012 > The AR4 attribution statement
What the IPCC AR4 attribution statement meant for the anthropogenic contribution to recent global warming.
23rd Jan 2012 > ?Vision Prize?, an online poll of scientists about climate risk
A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is trying to get a better understanding of the views of earth scientists regarding various climate change topics. They have set up an ongoing poll to do this, called Vision Prize. It’s a short (10 question) poll, covering topics like the rate of CO2 increase, predicted future [...]
17th Jan 2012 > The dog is the weather
Update January 27: There is also another recent dog-based animations from Victoria (southeast Australia) explaining some of the key drivers of our climate and how some are changing. A TV series that ran on Norwegian TV (NRK) last year included a simple and fun cartoon that demonstrates some important concepts relative to weather and climate: [...]
16th Jan 2012 > Open Climate 101 Online
Almost 3000 non-science major undergraduates at the University of Chicago have taken PHSC13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, since Ray Pierrehumbert and I (David Archer) first developed it back in 1995. Since the publication of the textbook for the class in 2005 (and a much-cleaned-up 2nd edition now shipping), enrollment has gone through the roof, [...]
11th Jan 2012 > An online model of methane in the atmosphere
I’ve put together an easy-to-play-with online model of methane in the atmosphere. I’m going to use it for teaching along with the rest of the Understanding the Forecast webmodels, but it was designed to be relevant to the issue of abrupt new methane burps as we’ve been ruminating about lately on Realclimate. The model runs [...]
7th Jan 2012 > An Arctic methane worst-case scenario
Let’s suppose that the Arctic started to degas methane 100 times faster than it is today. I just made that number up trying to come up with a blow-the-doors-off surprise, something like the ozone hole. We ran the numbers to get an idea of how the climate impact of an Arctic Methane Nasty Surprise would [...]
4th Jan 2012 > Much ado about methane
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, but it also has an awesome power to really get people worked up, compared to other equally frightening pieces of the climate story. What methane are we talking about? The largest methane pools that people are talking about are in sediments of the ocean, frozen into hydrate or clathrate [...]
2nd Jan 2012 > Unforced variations: Jan 2012
First open thread of 2012, so perhaps some discussion of the highlights and lowlights of 2011 are in order? Top 5 lists welcome…
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