By Jon Robson Multidecadal changes in the North Atlantic sea surface temperature (NASST) have been linked to a range of important climate impacts in Europe, Africa (most notably Sahel rainfall) … Continue reading “Have aerosols caused the observed North Atlantic multidecadal variability?”
The Earth is a complex system of interacting components, such as the atmosphere and ocean, which produce a wide variety of natural variability. This natural variability ensures that the evolution … Continue reading “A case study of Multidecadal climate variability and prediction: The mid 1990s warming of the North Atlantic”
Geoengineering is not going away any time soon. It is beginning to move from a fringe topic into the mainstream, and a genuine research community is starting to set the … Continue reading “Future pathways for geoengineering research”
By Helen Greatrex. “I don’t know the reasons, but I know the climate is changing,” Medhin Reda, a 45-year-old farmer eking a living for her family from two rain-fed fields … Continue reading “Tell me a story… How do climate perceptions match up to observations?”
Towards the end of 2010 I wrote a post sketching out the current state of the science of geoengineering: the justification, the methods, and the effects. I closed by explaining … Continue reading “At the controls: should we consider geoengineering?”
Our evolving climate: communicating the effects of internal variability [Part of an article to appear in ‘Weather’] It is “very likely” that humans have caused most of the warming of … Continue reading “Communicating climate variability”
Over the course of two days starting on 8th November around 150 people gathered in the hallowed halls of the Royal Society to debate the future. And not just any … Continue reading “Setting the thermostat: an introduction to geoengineering”
During September and October the large spring-time depletion of stratospheric ozone, the so-called ozone-hole, occurs over the Southern Hemisphere polar cap. Despite the success of the Montreal Protocol in restricting … Continue reading “Week 1 – Current and future Ozone holes”
After all the recent controversy over hacked emails, IPCC errors and the British public apparently growing more skeptical about climate science and scientists, it is perhaps interesting to take a … Continue reading “A brief history of early climate science”