Global Cooling : Beyond Parochialism

During the next 10 years, climate science and climate science reporting will, I believe, change the public perception of climate change.  More people will come to understand the difference between parochial weather and global climate.  As more and more people become directly affected by climate change, former deniers will begin to ask why "they" didn't do something about the problem.

Earlier this week I argued that biological systems posses dynamical properties that are biologically important, and understandable primarily through mathematical modeling. As an example, I discussed a paper that explored the advantages of double positive feedback loops in bistable switches.

I glossed over the math behind the model because of space and time constraints. (Constraints on a blog, you wonder? Well, I ran out of time, and once a blog post gets beyond 1000 words, the number people who read it to completion probably drops exponentially for every word over 1000.)

Where are we?  Cosmically, I mean.  We have barely made steps to get to the edge of our solar system, via Voyager 1 and 2.  It's ironic that we can see back 13 billion years using telescopes, but we have little idea of what 'stuff' is out there-- matter, dark matter, energy.  Or even what is just outside our local solar system.

Global Cooling : How Wrong Can You Get?

Despite media reports to the contrary, the Antarctic ice is still melting, as noted here:

Climate change is warming the Amundsen Sea, which is at the southern margin of the Pacific Ocean. As rising sea levels push the warm water beneath the ice shelves, it melts them from below, pushing the grounding line higher up the continental shelf.