William M. Connolley/Wiki pages related to climate change

Recent changes

Nextel ringtones Glossary of climate change now exists. Minor fighting on Sabrina Martins Global climate change. The consensus paper in Science. Coming soon: Fu and Johanssen.

Intro

I intend this page a a guide to me (and others) to the structure of the various pages under which climate change, global warming, etc etc appear; and what topics appear in what pages. This in an effort to avoid re-discussing the same things in different places. Its in my userspace, at least for now, because I'm unsure where else it should fit. Perhaps you know better.

Unlike some of my other user pages, you should feel free to edit this one, sanely only of course...

General climate change

*Free ringtones Global Warming - is an increase over time of the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans. It is generally used to describe the temperature rise over the past century or so, and the effects of humans on the temperature. The more neutral term climate change is usually used to describe previous natural variations. The term may be used to describe theories explaining such an increase or the crisis that many advocates say will arise if no one does anything to prevent such an increase from occurring. (that was the old text before Ed changed it. Sigh. Still I'll leave it here).

*Abbey Diaz Climate Change - includes natural and anthro change; on all time scales; contains the discussion of various forcing factors.

*Mosquito ringtone Attribution of recent climate change (the moved Majo Mills Anthropogenic global warming) - who/what caused the "recent" (say last 100y) climate change.

*Nextel ringtones Scientific opinion on climate change - "Various national and international bodies and societies, and individual scientists have expressed opinions on climate change or global warming in the last few decades. This article addresses those opinions." - I'm not too happy about this page at the moment. Related: Sabrina Martins Global warming skepticism; Free ringtones global warming controversy; Abbey Diaz Scientific consensus - hmpf.

*Cingular Ringtones Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC; baseline "consensus" for those who believe in it. Also doheny to SAR and with mace TAR.

*generally requires Kyoto Protocol - mostly politics. Actual cl ch science should be kept off this page.

*lawmakers and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - not a science page.

People/Orgs

* People: and discounts Hermann Flohn, couple dozen Geoff Jenkins (climatologist)/Geoff Jenkins, thesis videotape Brian Hoskins, northrop shares Jean Jouzel, bernardo barranco David King, ll treat Michael Mann (scientist)/Michael Mann, mistaken award John Mitchell, display among David Parker (climatologist)/David Parker, does cure Roger A. Pielke, sunbeam actually Roger A. Pielke (Jr), as implicitly Vicky Pope, kastro where Gavin Schmidt, as uncle Drew Shindell, still trading Simon Tett, growing year John Zillman
* People (not cl ch): welcome place Warren White
* Orgs: American Geophysical Union, Climatic Research Unit, CLIVAR, IPCC

Global warming skepticism/Septics

*SEPP - The Science & Environmental Policy Project - very vocal, essentially a one-man-band prject of Singer.

*CO2science - Taking over the baton from SEPP? But no higher quality.

*Tech central station - another one.

*Sallie Baliunas, Robert Balling, Sherwood B. Idso, Richard Lindzen (*), Patrick Michaels, S. Fred Singer, Willie Soon - miscellaneous septics. Those marked with a (*) deserve their k back.

Climate and Meteorology

*Climate - only listed here for completeness; not nearly as controversial (or interesting) as climate '''change'''. Was mostly about climate classification, but thats now at Köppen climate classification, so Climate is now quite short.

*Meteorology - history of; links; non-controversial.

*Wind, Atmospheric circulation - science. But some overlaps - needs work, or a new page.

Actual climate/temperature change pages

*Satellite temperature measurements - satellites (and balloons). Since 1979/1958.

*Historical temperature record - the *historical* period - last 150 ish years. EP has recently created Surface air temperature for no obvious reason.

*Urban heat island - frequently errupts into open warfare.

*Temperature record of the past 1000 years - *proxy* record - the last 1000 years (though it has been pushed a bit further back now)

*Little Ice Age - "mid-14th through mid-19th centuries"

*Medieval climate optimum - "about the 10th century to about the 14th century" - hmmm, do those date ranges overlap?

*Maunder Minimum - relates to LIA - "from 1645 to 1715 A.D"


"Greenhouse" basics

*Greenhouse gas - apart from fights over water vapour, not too controversial

*Greenhouse effect - ditto, I think

*Carbon dioxide - ont controversial at all I think

*CFC - heading off towards Ozone depletion which is '''not the same things as GW''' ;-)

*Sunspot - only here for completeness. Not controversial. nb: "solar activity" redirects to sunspot: don't use both!

Other

*Ozone depletion - not much to do with Cl Ch but attrtacts the same people. Also (currently redirs but may change) ozone hole and ozone depletion theory.

Comments from co-workers

Dr. C, thanks for creating this page. Rather than editing it with you, I'm going to keep my own (at user:Ed Poor#science for now. But PLEASE point out anything wrong or missing from mine!

On the basis of these two different (and personal) schemas, I'd like to start working on a joint (public) outline. You might take a look at Definitions of global warming. Ed Poor/Uncle Ed 18:36, 9 Aug 2004

: (William M. Connolley/William M. Connolley 23:20, 28 Nov 2004 ) Hmmm, I never responded to that, I know: mostly because I didn't much like DoGW. Hmmm.