Climate Change References
A page of references to various data sources, popular analysis and websites.
The Man-Made Global Warming Assertion
“We release CO2 by burning fossil fuels”
“Atmospheric CO2 levels have increased”
–> “Therefore increased atmospheric CO2 is due to us”
“CO2 is a ‘greenhouse gas’”
“Global temperatures are increasing”
–> Increasing CO2 is driving increasing global temperatures
–> The only possible option is to stop increasing global temperatures
–> The only possible option to do so is to reduce CO2 emissions
Live Data Sets
Temperature
HadCRUT3 – Surface temperature measurements (Climate Research Unit, Hadley center, UK met office)
GISS Surface Temperature Analysis – NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Appears to be a lone-man project)
Global Historical Climatology Network – National Climate Centre: (FTP here, )
Cyrosphere Today excellent eye candy graphs of ice coverage & temperatures at the poles (Walsh & Chapman at Illinois Uni)
RSS Atmosphere Temperatures Remote Sensing Satellite, less prone to groundstation errors compared to Hadley’s CRUT and GISS.
CO2 Levels
Mauna Loa record – 1958-now Mauna Loa Observatory at Hawaii
Law Dome Ice core (incl methane) – last few hundred years
Data Sets
Carbon cycle quantities (20002ish?) – NASA’s Earth Observatory.
Various CO2/Temperature datasets analysed & graphed – “Process Trends“,
Temperature
From ice cores, 160,000-now, NASA’s Earth observatory (Comment on ice core proxy systematic errors)
Lots of graphs from Global Warming Art, with links to sources etc.
CO2 Levels
Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions 2007; graphs and data
Scientific Skeptics
These are people who claim to demonstrate using maths and physics and everything various problems with some of the datasets:
- Climate Audit (Steve McIntyre, statistician)
- William Briggs (Statistician)
- Watts Up With That (‘Popular’ site, with it’s own ground station survey)
- Climate Resistance (Opinions on the politics)
- John Daly (1943-2004, now others add to the site)
- World Climate Report
- US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Friends of Science (bit of a woo choice of name)
- IceCap
- David Evans (ex climate modeller, Australia)
- C2 headlines (links to recent climate change news)
Specific articles: Testing Hansen’s predictions, Fire & Ice scaremongering, IPCC expert reviewer Vincent Gray on IPCC Spin, A software engineers take, ethos review, Leonard Weinstein “Disproving the AGW” , John Theon regrets , The Green World Trust
Climatologist Sites
These are people who claim to be climatologists and so know what they’re saying:
- Real Climate
- Climate Progress
- Nature Magazine sponsores Climate Feedback blogs
Reports
Hard Truths (National Petroleum Council)
Stern Report (UK government, on comparing adaption to mitigation costs)
The Petition Project (IPCC-like review with opposite conclusion)
Half-finished bits of work
CO2 emission vs level vs temperature
History
Excellent summary of the general history by the AIP
Global Cooling: Not really relevent, but the shift from ‘it never happened’ to ‘well no serious scientists said so’ to ‘there wasn’t an established consensus’. Bob Mann’s Real Climate, American Institute of Physics, NY Times reporting on a convention, American Institute Physics awards Tom Alexander Fortune Magazine “Ominous Changes in the World’s Weather”, Fire & Ice includes summary references, Similar New American article
Political Pressures on scientists
Management calls to strip meteorologists of qualifications if they don’t conclude what others have concluded.
