“You would think that we’d know the Earth’s ‘climate sensitivity’ by now, but it has been surprisingly difficult to determine. How atmospheric processes like clouds and precipitation systems respond to warming is critical, as they are either amplifying the warming, or reducing it. This website currently concentrates on the response of clouds to warming, an issue which I am now convinced the scientific community has totally misinterpreted when they have measured natural, year-to-year fluctuations in the climate system. As a result of that confusion, they have the mistaken belief that climate sensitivity is high, when in fact the satellite evidence suggests climate sensitivity is low.”

Source: Changing views to global warming http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785926.htm#transcript

[NewsBank, Nye: We must all save the Earth, The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana, February 21, 2009, Pat Whitney]

Heaven and Earth (2009)

Heaven and Earth (2009)

Heaven and Earth (2009)

Climate Change and its Causes, a Discussion about some Key Issues http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_change_cause.pdf

Source: Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997), Chapter 11, "Ambush: The Warming of the World"
Context: If we keep on with business as usual, the Earth will be warmed more every year; drought and floods will be endemic; many more cities, provinces, and whole nations will be submerged beneath the waves — unless heroic worldwide engineering countermeasures are taken. In the longer run, still more dire consequences may follow, including the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the inundation of almost all the coastal cities on the planet.

Global Warming on Mars? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2006/12/20/global-warming-on-mars/, wattsupwiththat.com, December 20, 2006.
2006

L 50
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)