Comments on: US Climate Change Science Program Workshop

By: Cassandra è tornata | Climate Monitor

Cassandra è tornata | Climate Monitor — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:33:43 +0000

[...] più pioggia e più siccità (la frase, come riportato da chi vi ha assistito è stata: “wet get wetter, the dry get drier“. Questa la chiamerei comunicazione scientifica di alto [...]

By: Michael Jankowski

Michael Jankowski — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:59:59 +0000

***He connected the landfall positions of hurricanes to movements of the Bermuda High, with a more southwest location steering hurricanes to the Gulf Coast. So regardless of one’s views of the connection of hurricanes to global warming, there are alternative reasons for prudence relative to future hurricanes in the Gulf Coast.***

If his research holds up and hits the mainstream, then how many years will it be before someone “links” FUTURE “movement of the Bermuda High” to AGW, resulting in the prediction of more Gulf Coast landfalls?

***I don’t entirely understand the theory why, under warmer climates, it is believed that the wet get wetter and the dry get drier.***

It’s not always so. Sometimes, you have to tell the wet people they will get dry. You don’t want to tell the dry people their land will become wet and fertile, so you have to instead say they’ll get massive flooding.

There was that disastrous (nat’l assessment?) paper on the US a few years ago where the Hadley and Canadian models both predicted large doses of GW for the US in the next 50-100 years but were often in complete disagreement with the resulting precipitation and soil moisture content. I had a hard time finding it the last time I looked for it, but I had found it in the past 6 months. So much for the simplicity of “wet get wetter, dry get drier” if you put your faith in some of the world’s “best” climate models.

By: TCO

TCO — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:19:26 +0000

1. Ever read Chris Buckley’s THANK YOU FOR SMOKING? Similar description of a muckety muck federal funded conference.

2. I’m in DC frequently. If you want, I will buy you a drink some time. I’m more pleasant in person than on the net…

By: Hans Erren

Hans Erren — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:25:02 +0000

I just learned that UNFCCC COP-11 is 28 November to 9 December 2005 in Montreal, which is not that far from Toronto.

By: The Knowing One

The Knowing One — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:43:13 +0000

Thanks very much for this. Not to seem too greedy, but elsewhere you mentioned that you’d had lunch at the House of Lords before going to Washington–would you tell about that too?

By: Dave Dardinger

Dave Dardinger — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:14:11 +0000

Thanks for the summary of the conference. I found one typo interesting:

climate scientists use “prospectus” to describe a scooping document used to raise money from the funding agency.

I assume it’s a typo since you have “scope” several other places. OTOH maybe you were either consciously or unconsciously trying to indicate

a) The scientists were scooping up money;

b) They were scooping their fellow scientists in the journalistic sense and marking their turf; or
c) They were using shovels to live up to the standard mock acronymization of PhD.