Eli Rabett wrote: > Roger Pielke Sr. is no longer state climatologist for Colorado, > Nolan Doesken is > http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/staff.php >
Eli, Thanks for the correction to my post My comments on the MN State Climatology program are in an Aug 17, 2006 post to the Twincities Independent Media Center (IMC-below). I would appreciate your comments on what I've seen as the reluctance of many State Climatologists to discuss climate change in their state areas of responsibility. The fact that everyone in the state and federal offices within Minnesota have been silent on climate change in Minnesota and global warming has been a big frustration for me for a number of years. For example, in January of 2000 I gave a coordinated spring snowmelt flood outlook for the Upper Midwest to an inter-agency winter/spring runoff outlook planning group at the St. Paul Corps of Engineers, which was part of my job with the National Weather Service (NWS) North Central River Forecast Center (located Chanhassen, MN). There were representatives from several state and federal agencies in attendance, including the Corps, USGS, many other state and federal emergency government people from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Michigan, Iowa and Illinois, and individuals from the State Climatology office of Minnesota. I discussed observing earlier spring snowmelt runoff in recent decades in the Upper Midwest and ended my presentation with a statement made by the director of NOAA in 2000 that global warming was already happening and would have serious atmospheric and hydrologic consequences ahead. My comments led to the first of four suspensions issued to me as result of my trying to research and speak about climate and hydrologic change in Minnesota and global warming. NWS officially removed me from government service in a July 15, 2005 memorandum from the acting deputy director of NOAA's NWS Central Region office, after I had served the public with NWS in hydrologic modeling and river prediction for 29 years, 5 months. I guess I went on here more than I figured to. My post to the Twincities IMC follows. -------- http://twincities.indymedia.org/newswire/display/28248/index.php What does your Minnesota State Climatology Office have to say? 17 Aug 2006 >From the Climate Change and Minnesota State Climatology Office web page... Excerpt: ... "While the State Climatology Office is not actively involved in scholarly work investigating the issue of climate change, our Office is often called upon to offer scientific opinions on the topic. The subject matter is of professional interest to us, but we make no claim of expertise in this highly complicated and politicized field of study." ... climate.umn.edu/doc/climate_change.htm -- Wait a minute. Climate change is not highly complicated. Even back in the 1980s, many scientists figured that global warming and regional climate change were happening. By the mid-1990s there was a strong consensus of scientists that anthropogenic global warming was happening as a result of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning. There is no excuse for saying climate change is as highly complicated. For more than a decade the scientific journals have had a great deal of evidence that global warming has been occurring. Many professionals in other sciences and people in other professions chose not to take time or make an effort to review the documentation on global warming and climate change, leaving the task for others to do instead. Government staff who's job it is to help protect the public have refused to educate themselves and help educate others on the very serious threat to life. Climate change is has not been a politicized field of study. The studies and research work by thousands of scientists on climate change have not been in disagreement. Politicization has been from non scientists. Pat Neuman Scientist Chanhassen, MN Related Temperature plots: 1888-2006 avgs: monthly, annual, public view at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/patneuman2000/my_photos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
