mike watkins dot caXML Feed for mike watkins dot ca2007: One of top ten warmest years- December 14, 2007 Eleven of the warmest years of the past one hundred and fifty seven years have occurred in the past thirteen years, reports the BBC from the Bali climate change conference. 2007 placed among the top ten years despite the an overall cooling influence this year resulting from La Nina conditions. Warmest 10 Years 1998 0.52C 2005 0.48C 2003 0.46C 2002 0.46C 2004 0.43C 2006 0.42C 2007 0.41C 2001 0.40C 1997 0.36C 1995 0.28C provisional In related news, at.http://mikewatkins.ca/2007/12/14/warmest-in-157-years/ Telus loses customer- December 8, 2007 As of Tuesday, we'll bring to an end our decades-old relationship with Telus. There'll no longer be a POTS (Plain old telephone system) line (with its defacto negative option billing) hooked up to our home and office. Why Simply put, there is better value, and service, elsewhere.http://mikewatkins.ca/2007/12/08/no-pots-here/ Solar Forcing- December 8, 2007 Wanting to look at solar irradiance against global temperature anomalies in more detail (than in my last article on climate) and over a longer time period, I prepared a chart comparing global temperatures to solar irradiance over the period of 843 to present times. Solar radiance and temperature data going back hundreds of years is obviously reconstructed information, interpreted and extrapolated based on other factors ranging from tree-rings to sun spot observations to particle measurements...http://mikewatkins.ca/2007/12/07/its-not-just-the-sun/ Climate Change Data- December 4, 2007 The attached charts represent compilation of data I gathered while doing some policy research recently. My goal was to obtain and present available data on: Fossil fuel production CO2 observations in the atmosphere CO2 observations from polar ice samples CO2 emissions Solar radiance observed Sunspot counts Global temperature anomalies from mean The purpose of this review was to establish a baseline set of information which political policy discussions could refer to. I did not set out to...http://mikewatkins.ca/2007/12/04/climate-change-data/ |