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Gavin Schmidt is a climate modeler, working for NASA and with Columbia University.

Will spring 2005 be a bad one for Arctic ozone? Le printemps 2005 comptera-t-il parmi les mauvais pour l’ozone arctique ?

10 Mar 2005 by Gavin

Guest Commentary by Drew Shindell (NASA GISS)

The current winter and early spring have been extremely cold in the Arctic stratosphere, leading to the potential for substantial ozone depletion there. This has been alluded to recently in the press (Sitnews, Seattle Post Intelligencer), but what’s the likely outcome, and why is it happening?

Par Drew Shindell, NASA, GISS (traduit par Pierre Allemand)

L’hiver actuel et le début du printemps ont été extrêmement froids dans la stratosphère arctique, ce qui est un facteur de réduction substantielle de l’ozone dans cette région. La presse a récemment fait allusion à ce phénomène, (Sitnews, Seattle Post Intelligencer),mais quels sont, en fait, les résultats, et qu’est-ce qui fait que cela arrive ?

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Filed Under: Arctic and Antarctic, Climate Science

Why looking for global warming in the oceans is a good idea Voici pourquoi rechercher le réchauffement global dans les océans est pertinent

23 Feb 2005 by Gavin

A lot of press and commentary came out this week concerning a presentation and press release from Tim Barnett and Scripps colleagues presenting at the AAAS meeting (The Independent, John Fleck ,(and again) David Appell…etc). Why did this get so much attention given that there is no actual paper yet?
par Gavin Schmidt (traduit par Pierre Allemand)

Un grand nombre d’articles de presse et de commentaires sont sortis cette semaine concernant une présentation et un communiqué de presse de Tim Barnett, Scripps et collègues au congrès de l’AAAS (American Society for the Advancement of Science), (The Independent, John Fleck ,(et de nouveau ici) David Appell…etc. (NdT : sites en anglais). Pourquoi cela a-t-il donné lieu à autant d’attention, alors qu’aucune publication n’est encore disponible ?

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[Read more…] about Why looking for global warming in the oceans is a good idea Voici pourquoi rechercher le réchauffement global dans les océans est pertinent

Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Oceans

Dummies guide to the latest “Hockey Stick” controversy Guide pratique pour comprendre la dernière controverse sur la « crosse de hockey »

18 Feb 2005 by Gavin

by Gavin Schmidt and Caspar Amman

Due to popular demand, we have put together a ‘dummies guide’ which tries to describe what the actual issues are in the latest controversy, in language even our parents might understand. A pdf version is also available. More technical descriptions of the issues can be seen here and here.

This guide is in two parts, the first deals with the background to the technical issues raised by McIntyre and McKitrick (2005) (MM05), while the second part discusses the application of this to the original Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1998) (MBH98) reconstruction. The wider climate science context is discussed here, and the relationship to other recent reconstructions (the ‘Hockey Team’) can be seen here.

NB. All the data that were used in MBH98 are freely available for download at ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/sdr/temp/nature/MANNETAL98/ (and also as supplementary data at Nature) along with a thorough description of the algorithm.

par Gavin Schmidt et Caspar Amman (traduit par Pierre Allemand)

Suite à la demande populaire, nous avons écrit un « guide pratique » qui essaie de décrire quels sont les problèmes débattus dans la dernière controverse sur la “crosse de hockey”, dans un langage que même nos parents peuvent comprendre. Des descriptions techniques complémentaires sur ces problèmes peuvent être trouvées ici et ici.

Ce guide comporte deux parties, la première concerne le fond des questions techniques soulevées par McIntyre and McKitrick (2005) (MM05), tandis que la seconde partie traite de ses applications à la reconstitution de Mann, Bradley et Hughes (1998) (MBH98). Le contexte plus large de la science du climat est discuté ici et les relations avec les récentes autres reconstitutions (« l’équipe de hockey ») sont traitées ici.

NB. Toutes les données utilisées dans le MBH98 sont librement téléchargeables sur ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/sdr/temp/nature/MANNETAL98/ (ainsi que des données supplémentaires dans Nature) et une description complète de l’algorithme).

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Filed Under: Climate Science, FAQ, Paleoclimate

People in, people out

18 Feb 2005 by Gavin

This is just to note some personnel changes at RealClimate. Amy Clement is unfortunately too overcommitted to be able to participate as much as she would like, and so is dropping out of the team. She states: “I fully support what the contributors of RealClimate are doing. It is a real service to both the community of climate scientists and to the general public”. To balance that, we welcome aboard paleoceanographer Thibault de Garidel (Rutgers) , who some francophiles may have noticed has been helping organise the French translations of some of the posts. And of course, if there are any other scientists out there who’d like to contribute, we would love to hear from you.

Filed Under: Climate Science

Strange Bedfellows En Etrange Compagnie

8 Feb 2005 by Gavin

Here’s a curious observation. Some commentators who for years have been vocally decrying the IPCC consensus are lining up to support the ‘Ruddiman’ hypothesis. A respected paleoceanographer, Bill Ruddiman has recently argued that humans have been altering the level of important greenhouse gases since the dawn of agriculture (5 to 8000 years ago), and in so doing have prevented a new ice age from establishing itself. This intriguing idea is laid out in a couple of recent papers (Ruddiman, 2003; Ruddiman et al, 2005) and has received a fair degree of media attention (e.g. here, and here).


par Gavin Schmidt (traduit par Thibault de Garidel)

Voici une curieuse observation. Les mêmes commentateurs qui pendant des années ont décrié le consensus autour du GIEC s’alignent désormais pour soutenir l’hypothèse dite de ‘Ruddiman’. Bill Ruddiman, un paléocéanographe respecté, a en effet récemment suggéré que l’action humaine avait changé la concentration de certains gaz à effet de serre, depuis le développement de l’agriculture (il y a 5 à 8000 ans), empêchant ainsi la mise en place d’une nouvelle période glaciaire. Cette idée intrigante est présentée dans deux articles récents ( Ruddiman, 2003 ; Ruddiman et autres, 2005 ), et a suscité depuis une certaine attention des médias (voir par exemple ici , et ici ).
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Filed Under: Climate Science, Greenhouse gases, Paleoclimate

11ºC warming, climate crisis in 10 years? 11ºC de réchauffement, une crise climatique dans 10 ans ?

29 Jan 2005 by Gavin

by Gavin Schmidt and Stefan Rahmstorf

Two stories this week, a paper in Nature (Stainforth et al, 2005) describing preliminary results of the climateprediction.net experiments, and the Meeting the Climate Challenge report from a high level political group have lead to dramatic headlines. On the Nature paper, BBC online reported that “temperatures around the world could rise by as much as 11ºC “; on the latter report it headlined: “Climate crisis near ‘in 10 years’”. Does this mean there is new evidence that climate change is more serious than previously thought? We think not.


par Gavin Schmidt et Stefan Rahmstorf (traduit par Thibault de Garidel et Gilles Delaygue)

Deux travaux sortis cette semaine, un papier publié dans Nature (Stainforth et al., 2005) décrivant des résultats préliminaires de l’expérience climateprediction.net, et le rapport Meeting the Climate Challenge d’un groupe politique, ont mené à des titres catastrophistes dans les médias. Sur l’article de Nature, BBC on line indique que les “températures globales pourraient s’élever de près de 11ºC”; sur le second rapport il est écrit: “Une crise climatique proche pour dans 10 ans”. [N-d-T. : Voir également Le Monde : Un réchauffement climatique de plus de 6ºC n’est plus à exclure ; Libération : Prédire chez soi]. Cela signifie-t-il que de nouvelles preuves montrent un changement climatique plus sérieux que précédemment estimé ? Nous ne le pensons pas.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, Greenhouse gases, Paleoclimate

Global Dimming? Assombrissement global?

18 Jan 2005 by Gavin

It just so happens that most of the posts on this site have tried to counteract arguments from those who would sow fake “uncertainty” in the climate debate. But lest our readers feel that we are unjustifiably certain about our knowledge, let us look at a recent example of the opposite tendency: too much certainty.

A recent BBC Horizon documentary (transcript) raised the issue of ‘global dimming’ and argued that this ‘killer’ phenomena’s newly-recognised existence would lead to huge re-assessments of future global warming. As part of the hyperbole, the process of global dimming was linked very clearly to the famines in Ethiopia in the 1980s and the implication was left that worse was to come. Media reports with headlines like “Fossil Fuel Curbs May Speed Global Warming” swiftly followed. So what’s the real story?
par Gavin Schmidt (traduit par Pierre Allemand)
Il est un fait que la plupart des interventions sur ce site ont essayé de contrer les arguments de ceux qui voudraient semer une “incertitude” trompeuse dans le débat sur le climat. Mais, de peur que nos lecteurs pensent que nous sommes abusivement certains de nos connaissances, examinons un exemple récent de la tendance inverse : trop de certitude.

Un récent documentaire de la série “Horizon” de la BBC (transcription) a soulevé la question d’un “assombrissement global” et a indiqué que l’existence récemment reconnue d’un tel phénomène « tueur » pourrait amener à reconsidérer très fortement l’hypothèse d’un futur réchauffement global. Cet audacieux raisonnement faisait un lien très clair entre l’assombrissement global et les famines en Ethiopie durant les années 1980, le plus grave restant encore à venir. Des dépêches de presse avec des titres du genre « Le coup de frein sur les énergies fossiles pourrait accélérer le réchauffement global » suivaient dans la foulée. Mais, qu’en est-il exactement ?
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Filed Under: Aerosols, Climate Science, Greenhouse gases

Is Climate Modelling Science? La modélisation climatique est-elle de la science?

12 Jan 2005 by Gavin

At first glance this seems like a strange question. Isn’t science precisely the quantification of observations into a theory or model and then using that to make predictions? Yes. And are those predictions in different cases then tested against observations again and again to either validate those models or generate ideas for potential improvements? Yes, again. So the fact that climate modelling was recently singled out as being somehow non-scientific seems absurd.
par Gavin Schmidt (traduit par Gilles Delaygue)

A première vue, cela semble une question étrange. Est-ce-que la science n’est pas précisément la quantification d’observations dans une théorie ou un modèle, et ensuite son utilisation pour faire des prédictions ? Oui. Et est-ce-que ces prédictions de différents cas sont ensuite confrontées, maintes fois, aux observations, afin soit de valider ces modèles ou bien de faire émerger des idées d’amélioration ? Oui, encore une fois. Ainsi la mise à l’index récente de la modélisation climatique comme quelque chose de non scientifique semble absurde.

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Filed Under: Climate modelling, Climate Science, FAQ, Paleoclimate, Sun-earth connections

Imprecision of the Phrase “Global Warming”

31 Dec 2004 by Gavin

Guest Contribution by Michael Tobis, University of Chicago

Consider the possibility that the expression “global warming” has become a problematic one, and that it might be best to avoid it.

A big part of the public confusion about climate change comes from sloppy language. The naysayers prey on this confusion, very much as their peers prey on the phrase “evolutionary theory” to suggest that “evolution, well, it’s just a theory”.

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Filed Under: Climate Science

A Welcoming Nature

22 Dec 2004 by Gavin

Getting a serious paper into Nature or Science is deservedly hard. Getting a mention for your climate blog is apparently a little easier!

We are of course collectively very pleased that Nature has welcomed the RealClimate.org effort so forthrightly. We only hope that we will be able to match up to their expectations. As with anything new, done by inexperienced first-timers who really should be concentrating on their actual jobs, there are bound to be teething problems. One, alluded to in the editorial and accompanying news story, is who gets to decide what’s posted, and getting the balance right between inclusiveness and clarity.

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Filed Under: Climate Science, In the News

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