The study of weather conditions and patterns as averaged over a given period of time.
Questions tagged [climatology]
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Did Exxon suppress its own scientific results on climate change?
Some environmentalists have recently claimed that Exxon did research on global warming and then suppressed the results. For example, Bill Mckibben writes this in the Guardian:
Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago,…
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Could 5G make weather satellites less effective?
I've seen a few articles pop up in sources stating that 5G signals will run too close to the 23.8 MHz signal that weather satellites need in order to accurately produce weather forecasts.
National Geographic
One of the crucial bands, says William…
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Did the Earth have so little oxygen that dinosaurs couldn't exist?
Noted Young-Earth Creationist Kent Hovind made a claim in a 2007 video that suggested that the idea of dinosaurs living on Earth millions of years ago was implauseable if the oxygen levels were the at the same level that exist today.
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Does low solar activity cause cold weather?
I'm in Ireland where a few papers have recently parrotted an independent body's assertion that we're heading for low solar activity and, accordingly, a very cold winter. The statement has been presented without criticism.
Given that one of the main…
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Is global warming impossible because of CO₂'s dilution?
Gary Novak argues (e.g. in his book, Science Errors and on his web site) that climate models are incorrect, because of a missing "dilution" factor.
Climatologists skipped over the dilution factor. Each CO2 molecule in the air would have to be…
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Did British homes increase greenhouse gas emissions by 4% in 2018?
According to this report from The Times,
Greenhouse gas emissions fell in every sector — including transport, industry and energy — in 2018, but emissions from homes went up 4 per cent, government data shows.
Is it true that emissions from homes…
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Have climate models in the 80's and 90's accurately predicted today's climate?
Climate models seem to pretty useful tools for predicting future climate. Considering constant refinement of the models and Moore's law, it is conceivable that today's climate models are far more accurate than the ones developed a decade or two ago.…
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Are the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires only 7% higher than the 10 year average?
This article makes the following claim:
While the number of fires in 2019 is indeed 80% higher than in 2018, it’s just 7% higher than the average over the last 10 years ago, Nepstad said.
However I've not been able to find any additional…
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Does humanity find it easier to adapt to a warm climate than a cold climate?
In a recent response to some questions from schoolchildren about climate change, well known climate skeptic Ross McKitrick made the following statement:
People can adapt to warming conditions more easily than to cooling conditions.
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Is the optimal temperature for human productivity 13°C?
A recent study attempting to quantify some of the economic costs of a warming climate argues that the optimal temperature for human productivity seems to be 13°C. As the Washington Post reports:
Culling together economic and temperature data for…
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Are current climate models too vague to be physically or scientifically meaningful?
In a recent article on the climate skeptic site Watts Up With That backed up with a published paper in Energy and Environment, Pat Frank argues that current climate simulation models are scientifically useless. In his words:
the huge uncertainty…
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How are airplane contrails linked to climate change?
There are a wide range of opinions and articles on this question, and here are some excerpts from a blog on the point Artificial Weather Revealed by Post 9-11 Flight Groundings:
In the August 2002 edition of Nature, which is ranked the world's most…
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Is global temperature significantly affected by time of galactic year?
There is a claim that different patches of the galaxy have different climate effects due to variations in cosmic ray strength. I've occasionally heard this used to explain global warming but more often ice ages.
This article is an example of both…
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Will reducing atmospheric CO₂ reverse the effects of climate change over a few decades?
There are many calls to help bring down Carbon Dioxide levels. But what are the effects of such an action?
My intuition of the earth as a slow-moving complex system tells me that it will settle into a "new state" in which new patterns of temperature…
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Why did the value for "average surface temperature of Earth" change from 15°C to 14°C in some scientific literature concerning climate change?
I recently stumbled across an article from a global warming skeptic stating that the "average surface temperature of Earth" changed from 15°C to 14°C in some scientific literature concerning climate change.
From the article Fourteen Is the New…
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