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16 June 2011
Good Science and Junk Science
The Good Science: NOAA released the May global temp. data today and the global land and ocean temps. were tied for 10th warmest on record. Land temps. were 7th warmest on record. The period of meteorological spring from March -May was also the 10th warmest on the instrument record. From NCDC: Global Highlights The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for May 2011 was 0.50°C (0.90°F) above the …
8 June 2011
The Great American Disconnect
Awhile back, I did a short post about the greatest scientific myth in America. The myth is that scientists are divided about whether or not climate change is happening. As I said in the previous post, this is just not true. Peer reviewed studies (see here and here) have shown consistently that about 97.5% of active scientists working ion the field agree that the planet is warming. They agree that …
24 May 2011
OZ Climate Study Pulls No Punches
Yet another peer reviewed study of climate science has used unusually urgent language, to define the growing threat from doing nothing about rising greenhouse gases. Australia ranks second only to the USA in the number of politically inspired attacks on climate scientists, although their politicians seem to be a bit more scientifically literate than many of ours. What to do about climate change is a political question, but the threat …
16 May 2011
NOAA- 35th consecutive April with Temps. Above 20th Century Average
NASA GISS has this April as the 4th warmest. The oldest continous instrumental record in the world is that from a station in Central England. This past April was the warmest April in the entire 353 years of that record! (That record started in 1659!) Image below courtesy UK MET Office and Tamino at Open Mind. and up in the North… Happy Monday!
8 May 2011
Violent Twisters in A Warmer World
In eighty years, most of us will be long gone (except for a lucky few who will be soiling adult diapers in an assisted living facility). However, our great-grandchildren will be in their prime and looking forward to a new century where Microsoft Windows no longer produces the blue screen of death. After the Super Swarm of tornadoes on April 27th, it’s worth asking if our descendants will be dealing …
24 April 2011
Where The Wind Comes Right behind The Rain (but, not without warning!)
I am back home in Oklahoma this weekend for a climate change seminar at my alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. I graduated from OU in 1981 and it has changed dramatically. OU is now the world’s premiere school for studying the atmospheric sciences and the seminar was in the new National Weather Center that houses the NOAA Storm Prediction Center, (They are responsible for issuing tornado watches nationwide) along …
10 April 2011
Weekend Climate Tid Bits
It’s been an interesting week or so in the climate science arena with papers on climate change in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters and Nature. Then there’s that study put together by Dr. Richard Muller to “check” the temperature rise that NOAA/NASA and the Hadley Centre (UK Met. Office) have reported. If you’re still in the rapidly dwindling group of those who think we are not facing a very …
7 April 2011
Coming to PBS: Earth-The Operator’s Manual
Bud Ward, of the Yale Forum for Climate and Media, has organised another climate change seminar for TV weathercasters in Oklahoma later this month. I’m one of the presenters and it’s very humbling to be on the same stage as some of the smartest climate experts in the world. Many on air weather people remain skeptical of the science, but having a chance to listen and ask questions of those who …
30 March 2011
Arctic Freeze Up This Winter Ties For Lowest On Record
Maximum Ice Extent Ties Record Low Every winter, the Arctic ocean freezes and you can literally walk from Canada across the Pole to Russia (except in a few areas that rarely freeze). The stunning loss in Arctic ocean sea ice continues, and while the summer melt gets most of the attention, this winter the amount of Arctic ice was tied for the lowest on record. Here are the official …
29 March 2011
When Dealing with Climate, Perception and Reality are Sometimes Very Different
Was it a bad winter? Ask someone what kind of winter we have had here in the Eastern USA and you will probably be told it was brutal. Same for last winter as well, with the record breaking snow storms in Washington DC and the heavy snowfalls in the UK as well. Scientific reality, however, can be quite different from perception. Dr. James Hansen at NASA has put together a …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.