Science Friday: Real Climate (Good read!)

[atommom]

All life on our precious planet has been forged by Fire and Ice. From ancient boiling seas to Snowball Earth, weather has shaped every species; or condemned them to extinction. We are not exempt. More than any other factor in our evolution, climate has crafted Humankind. It was global change which coaxed our ancestors down out of Miocene treetops onto forested Pliocene floors and out into arid Pleistocene plains. Our mind, body, and culture have danced in resonance to advancing and retreating glaciers, continental drift, fluctuating sea levels, and orbital idiosyncrasies, for millions of years. Today our human family, now six billion strong, is more dependent than ever on regular rainfall, ocean currents, seasonal patterns, and forecasting, to cultivate the plants and nurture the animals which provide every calorie we consume. We are at the mercy of climate, good and bad: Thus it behooves us to understand it well.

I had the opportunity to virtually chat with three leading climate scientists about the future of global weather and the impact of human activity. Join me below as DR Gavin Schmidt, DR Michael Mann, and DR Stefan Rahmstorf discuss that disturbing reality free of political spin. This is real data, these are real researchers: This is REALCLIMATE.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/20/7194/94155

[JohnWxy]

1. Really good article. Thanks!

THis is a really good article (or articles, when you read the links provided).

I have been trying to find correlation statistics on the increasing Carbon Dioxide concentration in the atmospheere and the rise in average global temperature. This would be an interesting statistic to look at. I think this would be more powerful than just showing the extraordinary rise in temperature - show the strong correlation with rising CO2 concentration. Anybody know where something like this is on the web?

[philb]

2. Its in most of the big studies, such as the IPCC reports

International Panel on Climate Change, search for their reports.

Lots of the NOAA and EPA studies also have such