Category Archives: climate science

Is ‘I don’t have an opinion on AGW’ a valid scientific position?

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Chris Rowan

In amongst the sound and fury which accompanied last week’s fight to the death between Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy and Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit in the 2007 Weblog Awards (which was eventually declared a draw), I noticed an interesting attitude … Continue reading →

Categories: antiscience, climate science

Polar views

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Chris Rowan

The north pole of Titan, courtesy of Cassini: Here’s why we think the dark patches are lakes, which everyone is very excited about. The first snapshots of Titan’s southern polar region have also found a couple of probable small lakes, … Continue reading →

Categories: climate science, planets

Out of the ice age, into the asteroid shower

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Was the biggest cold snap in the last deglaciation caused by an extraterrestrial impact?
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Categories: climate science, geochemistry, geohazards, paper reviews, past worlds, planets, Pleistocene

Global attitudes to climate change

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Chris Rowan

The BBC have just released the results of a global survey of attitudes to anthropogenic climate change, and it makes interesting reading.
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Categories: climate science, public science

How fast is the Arctic melting?

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Blockbuster headlines about the thawing of the North-West Passage are all very well, but you can’t really assess the significance of the record low in Arctic summer sea-ice cover (as reported by both the European Space Agency and the National … Continue reading →

Categories: climate science