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. . . . offers the latest news on climate behavior and climate
change on Earth, in easy-to-understand pieces. This link delivers the
current
newsletter. For all previous 14 editions since 2002, visit
our Previous
News desk.
Best
articles from Climate Science Forum (2002
to 2012)
I founded
Climate Science Forum to deliver the latest findings on the
science of climate change and natural climate behavior in plain language.
A few of the articles at this link are:
"Ozone Hole
formed over the Arctic for the First Time" (2011)
"Narwhal whales recruited to monitor climate
in deep polar waters” (2010)
“Large part of climate change is deemed
irreversible” (2009)
“What climate prediction models still
cannot do: an expert speaks out” (2002)
“Climate
Change and the Woodsman”
Northwest forests
suffer from insect infestations and drought brought on by recent warmer,
drier summers - a result of thinning snowpack in the mountains (by
Michael Fortune and Philip Mote, Northwest Woodlands, Spring
2010.)
Book
review of “Global Warming: Myth or
Reality?” by Marcel Leroux
Leroux's book has
two purposes – to build a climatology on the concept of “mobile
polar highs,” and to assert that the atmospheric greenhouse
effect has no role in current climate change. (M. Fortune’s
review of the book in Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society, vol. 88, 89-92, Jan. 2007)
News, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute,
written by Michael A. Fortune (Spring 2010).
“New fungal
infection spreads in the Northwest"
"Elevated CO2
levels alter biochemistry of food webs"
"Western U.S.
climate impacts"
"Climate Reanalysis
datasets: are they really of climate Quality?"
“Fenomeno
Catarina: the South Atlantic’s First Hurricane?”
The first
known hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean caused havoc on Brazil's
coast and astonished meteorologists around the world. (By M. Rusticucci
and Michael A. Fortune, State of the Climate 2004: Bulletin of
the American Meteorological Society, vol. 86, S-30, June 2005).
“A
Warrior's Footprint on the Planet”
Q: How much of the
planet is used to support me, in the life style to which I am accustomed?
A: The footprint of
an American living in the U.S. was 24 acres, the highest value per-person
on the planet.
A: Every two weeks
my actions add another ton of CO2 to the atmosphere.
(from
The Bullskin, May 2008, Mankind Project, Washington, DC,
p. 8-9).
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