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Earth, but not as we know it

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-22 09:44:21
Olive Heffernan On Nature Reports Climate Change today, writer Christine Woodside interviews Bill McKibben about his new book, Eaarth, and on his transition from journalism to activism. Woodside writes: In 1989, American environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote a book about climate change, for ordinary people. In The End of Nature, McKibben sounded one of the first warnings that the industrial age was altering …

Copenhagen Accord - missing the mark

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-21 18:24:53
Nicola Jones Current pledges to reduce emissions are no where near good enough to keep the planet's warming to below 2�C, argue Joeri Rogelj, Malte Meinshausen and colleagues in an opinion piece in Nature this week. They analyzed the pledges made in conjunction with the Copenhagen Accord, taking into account a few major loopholes that will likely make emissions worse. First, they …

Pachauri responds to allegations of IPCC inaccuracy

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-21 16:49:50
Olive Heffernan Over on Yale E360, IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri responds to the allegations of inaccuracies in the panel?s 2007 assessment report. Specifically, he addresses the accusations of error referred to (somewhat absurdly) as Glaciergate, Amazongate and Africagate. Pachauri ? who has recently been cleared of allegations of financial irregularity ? writes: On Glaciergate: AR4 stated that the Himalayan glaciers could melt by …

Eyjafjallaj�kull eruption: good news for the climate?

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-20 15:52:41
Olive Heffernan I?m due to travel to Japan this Friday for a conference on Climate Change Effects on Fish and Fisheries. If I get there, I?ll be providing regular updates from the conference here on Climate Feedback. But that?s beginning to look like a big ?if?. The volcanic ash cloud from Eyjafjallaj�kull is still keeping planes grounded across the UK and could …

Election 2010: the parties on climate change

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-19 14:55:33
Olive Heffernan In what is anticipated to be the most closely contested election since 1992, Conservative leader David Cameron will, on May 6th, attempt to oust Gordon Brown and end 13 years of Labour Party rule in the UK. But if ? as some are predicting ? Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg manages to wrestle enough votes from Cameron and Brown, …

Sea level rise: defence and development

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-15 17:54:01
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 to more than 200 cm by 2100 (see Figure 1 from a commentary by Stefan Rahmstorf; references are listed in full in the text). I started to …

Taming the geoengineering genie

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-15 16:30:56
Olive Heffernan Over on NRCC today, Mason Inman reviews two books on geoengineering ? two of the first, in fact, to cover this field for a popular audience. The first is Hack the Planet by Eli Kintisch, a reporter for Science magazine, and the second is How to Cool the Planet by Jeff Goodell, a contributing editor and reporter to Rolling Stone …

University told to hand over tree ring data

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-15 16:12:55
Daniel Cressey The UK?s information watchdog has told a university it has to release the tree ring data at the centre of a long running freedom of information fight. Douglas Keenan, an independent researcher, has been attempting to get Queen?s University Belfast (QUB) to give him data including the width of rings and the location of trees used by its climate researchers (see: …

CRU inquiry: science solid despite lack of statistical know-how

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-14 12:54:02
Cross-posted by Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond The integrity of research by the ?climate-gate? scientists has been upheld by the latest report into the email theft affair, despite the inquiry team expressing surprise that few professional statisticians were involved in work that is ?fundamentally statistical?. This inquiry, headed by Ron Oxburgh, is one of a number into the aftermath of …

Sea level rise: What?s in store?

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-09 18:49:29
Olive Heffernan A few months back, I was asked to give a talk on sea level rise as part of a routine editorial meeting, where we discuss issues of interest across various publications within the Nature family. I was excited by the opportunity for two reasons. Firstly, while the factors contributing to sea level rise appear to be well understood, there is …

Climate weekly round-up

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-09 15:44:46
Olive Heffernan "What we'd like to see is the whole thing being fought on the architecture of a Green New Deal." Solarcentury founder Jeremy Leggett on the potential role for climate and environment issues in the election campaigns of Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Gordon Brown. ?[The administration is] very sceptical about the ability to get a full-blown legal deal that replaces the Kyoto …

The not-green-enough New Deal

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-08 17:50:09
Nicola Jones Just over a year ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published its Global Green New Deal policy brief -- a proposal to save the planet at the same time as rescuing the economy. How is that going? Not well enough, according to environmental economist Edward Barbier. Barbier wrote the consultancy report that formed the basis of the UNEP …

Climate concern: philanthropists give generously

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-06 16:30:31
Philanthropic institutions in the United States more than tripled their support for climate-related causes in 2008 relative to the previous year, reports Laura Thompson Osuri today on Nature news. The findings come from the Foundation Center, a New York-based organization that supports philanthropies. In total, donations shot up from a 2007 total of US$240 million to $897 million in 2008, and …

Nature news content now free

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Climate Feedback 2010-04-06 16:16:38
Olive Heffernan Some good news for readers of Climate Feedback: all content on Nature news is now free, including online news, and news and news features published in Nature. We often link to Nature news stories on the blog and, as many of you know, this content has, until now, been behind a paywall from four days after publication. Now, all Nature …

Parliament committee calls for more transparency in climate science

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Climate Feedback 2010-03-31 15:31:42
Cross-posted from Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond The scientist at the centre of the ?climate-gate? emails has escaped censure from a Parliamentary inquiry into the affair, but his university and the field of climate science in general have not. ?Climate science is a matter of global importance. The quality of the science therefore has to be irreproachable,? says Phil Willis, …

Nature launching Climate Change journal

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Climate Feedback 2010-03-31 14:59:09
Olive Heffernan Regular readers of Climate Feedback will notice that it?s been a bit quite as of late. That?s because of some major - and massively exciting - changes taking place behind the scenes. In short, Nature Publishing Group is launching a journal on climate change and I?ve been appointed as the Chief Editor. The journal, Nature Climate Change, will launch in …

Climate change stops fighting between India and Bangladesh

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Climate Feedback 2010-03-25 18:18:00
Cross-posted by Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond A simmering row between India and Bangladesh has been cooled down by global warming. The two countries were at loggerheads over a pile of mud in the Bay of Bengal, called New Moore Island by India and South Talpatti by Bangladesh. Both claimed the island after it appeared in the 1970s. Now rising sea levels …

Climate in the classroom

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Climate Feedback 2010-03-22 20:33:49
Alicia Newton According to New Scientist, South Dakota has now joined Louisiana and Texas in requiring ?debate? over various scientific tenants in schools. In 2008, Louisiana led the way in requiring a critical discussion of climate, evolution and human cloning as part of the state?s science curriculum. Superficially, any educational standard that promotes critical thinking might be a welcome change from the …

Are climate scientists ignoring the lessons of climategate?

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Climate Feedback 2010-03-22 18:20:55
Guest post by Keith Kloor If there was one thing that most observers seemed to agree on in the aftermath of the hacking at the University of East Anglia, it was, as Fred Pearce wrote in Yale Environment 360, that the emails revealed a "bunker mentality among many of the scientists" at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. Other metaphors …

Another day, another ?climate-gate? inquiry

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Climate Feedback 2010-03-22 18:14:40
Cross-posted from Daniel Cressey on The Great Beyond The University of East Anglia has announced details of the team that will be looking into the scientific papers produced by its Climatic Research Unit, following last year?s email theft and subsequent controversy. Furious rows ensured after emails from the CRU published on the internet were taken by some as showing that Global Warming …

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