Tag: climate-change

The American Chemical Society on Climate Change
December 10, 2013 0

The American Chemical Society on Climate Change

By News Desk

Tweet Nonono, not the policy statement , well there is that, but a bunch of resources that ACS has put out there a climate science tool kit for folks to learn from and use, put together by a top notch working group with support from ACS leadership.  As part of the effort ACS held a meeting to brief staff about how to approach climate communication When a conversation turns to climate change, do you know the basic science to take part? Do you understand the far-reaching impacts of climate change and how it’s affecting you today?  Learn the answers to these questions and more. There are three professionally illustrated PowerPoint presentations which can be used in toto or from which slides can be select:  One for the public , one for educators and one for industry professionals (Powerpoint downloads).  And yes, a plug for Skeptical Science This site is very helpful for a non-climate scientist who wants to stay current with the literature on global warming and climate change

Your friendly water district lobbyist, reporting out
November 10, 2013 0

Your friendly water district lobbyist, reporting out

By News Desk

Tweet Our water district goes to Washington DC twice annually to either look for help or avoid regulatory problems with our environmental restoration, flood control, and water supply projects, and my turn was this last week. The team had 21 meetings in 2.5 business days, occasionally splitting up.

Nearby (and especially distant) mountains don’t prevent sea level rise/saltwater intrusion problems
October 27, 2013 0

Nearby (and especially distant) mountains don’t prevent sea level rise/saltwater intrusion problems

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Tweet Per Eli’s post below , Judith Curry’s put up a silly guest post by Rud Istvan saying that climate change poses no water supply problems to Caribbean islands. There are too many fish to shoot as Istvan gishgallops them in the barrel, so let’s talk first about where he’s right:  if nobody lived on these islands, then there’d be no water supply problems on those islands for those people who don’t live there.

Drop That Paper And Back Slowly Away
October 18, 2013 0

Drop That Paper And Back Slowly Away

By News Desk

What, bunnies ask, do zombies wanting to eat your brains have to do with the Stadium Wave? Well consider, the Weasel’s take on Wyatt and Curry’s Role for Eurasian Arctic shelf sea ice in a secularly varying hemispheric climate signal during the 20 th century .  Eli’s friend actually reads the paper and notices several things.  First, the waves, that W&C claim to be displaced from one another in several different climate indicators (see the figure below for a quick look, read the link to Stoat for more details) are the result of massive filtering of the AMO, PDO, etc.  To get an idea of how much smoothing, compare the two figures below).  Second, all of the signals were normalized in the figure displayed by W&C, even though most of them had little power in the frequency pass band.  Stoat goes on to show that ————————————————— Removing this, along with the other three that have essentially no in-band variance, leaves me with this crudely retouched version of their figure 2 a. Its now much less obviously a wave; its just three (four really, but two essentially overlay) different lines filtered to within an inch of their lives into a 60-year-ish band.