On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hansen actually criticises the IPCC explicitly in this paper: > > "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (10) assumes negligible > contribution to 2100 sea level change from loss of Greenland and > Antarctic ice, but that conclusion is implausible."
This is a weird thing to say. The 2001 report had Ant and Gr just about cancelling out. That wasn't at all implausible, it was what the science says. Fairly recently has come some evidence for more melt. Is (10) a ref to 2001 or 2007? > The other thing I found interesting in this paper was a suggestion that > El Nino conditions might become permanent. > > "It has been hypothesized that, during the early Pliocene, when the > Earth was 3°C warmer than today, a permanent El Niño condition > existed." Is that possible? -W. William M Connolley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/ Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | (01223) 221479 If I haven't seen further, it's because giants were standing on my shoulders -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
