Sea Ice Volume is Not Recovering by greenman and Anne Young features Andy Lee Robinson's update of his indispensable animation of Arctic sea ice volume – which makes the point yet again how dramatically northern sea ice is declining. If you have not yet viewed this post, you will definitely want to do so.
"The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on global warming," (Robert) Brulle* said in a statement. "Like a play on Broadway, the countermovement has stars in the spotlight – often prominent contrarian scientists or conservative politicians – but behind the stars is an organizational structure of directors, script writers and producers."
"If you want to understand what's driving this movement, you have to look at what's going on behind the scenes."
*Environmental Sociologist, Drexel University
"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort by Douglas Fischer, The Daily Climate/Scientific American, Dec 23, 2013
Cowtan & Way (2013) was extensively discussed by Roz Pidcock in her article, Hockey sticks to huge methane burps: Five papers that shaped climate science in 2013 posted on the Carbon Brief.
The Cook et al. (2013) consensus paper was cited by Joseph Stromberg in his article, Six Things We Learned About Our Changing Climate in 2013 posted on Smithsonian.com.
John Cook's Closing the consensus gap: Public support for climate policy was cited by John Mecklin as one of the top five articles published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in Mecklin's article, The year in climate change.
The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is dedicated to the study of global cycles of essential elements on Earth, their interactions among the biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere and the oceans, and their interrelation with the physical climate system.
The institute was founded by the Max Planck Society in 1997 and is located in the Thuringian city of Jena. After initial years as guest on the Zeiss premises, a new building was created in 2003 on the Beutenberg Campus, which is home to several academic and for-profit research institutions. The Campus and the local Friedrich-Schiller University offer excellent potential for local scientific cooperations.
Biogeochemical research is highly interdisciplinary and international. Scientists from all over the world are attracted to our institute and our research is often conducted in remote and exotic locations worldwide.
Note: The above text is from the About page of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry website.
Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 29 December, 2013
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