Clouds and Climate Change

Hello Readers,

It has been a while since I have seen a solid news article about climate change, and I cannot remember the last time I read an article about climate change that was clear about the levels of certainty of the various components of climate change science. Thus, I thought I would share one with you from the New York Times: Clouds’ Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters by Justin Gillis.

I do not have any commentary to add, but I have pulled together a list of some of the academic articles and other things mentioned in the news article.

Richard S. Lindzen, Ming-Dah Chou, and Arthur Y. Hou (2001), “Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v82#3. pp 417-431.
Found at: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~harrison/reports/iris.pdf

Lindzen, R. S., and Y.-S. Choi (2009), On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L16705, doi:10.1029/2009GL039628.
Found at: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009GL039628.shtml
And at: http://www.drroyspencer.com/Lindzen-and-Choi-GRL-2009.pdf

The US DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement 'Southern Great Plains' facility where new radar systems have been installed to get "a better view of the innards of clouds" according to the article.
Information found at: http://www.arm.gov/sites/sgp

I hope that helps those of you looking to keep your head (and studies) in the clouds.

Cheers,

Sean