By Torben Stichel, PhD., University of Hawaii at Manoa The ongoing debate on global climate change tends to give the impression that there is nothing new on this front. Of course, the candidates and media outlets involved in the upcoming election for the presidency of the United States will again use this topic as a political […]
Global climate change
Throwing the Dice with Climate Data
December 5, 2011
By Deborah Resnick In the summer of 2010, Russia suffered a heat wave that killed 700 people. This heat wave exceeded anything on record for Russia. As with any catastrophic weather event, climate change was immediately blamed for the heat wave. Scientists have used a Monte Carlo simulation to determine if global warming was a […]