10kclimatechallenge

10kclimatechallenge

Are you the next great climate scientist? Awarding $10,000 for the proven reproducible rate of CO2 forcing. (Verified by the UN IPCC)

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My Climate Journey

What I have learned in my 35 years of being a “climate activist”. You might be on the same path. 

Be an informed climate activist.

Are YOU the Next Great Climate Scientist?

AR4 and AR5 are road maps for the next generation of climate scientists. 

I am awarding $10,000 for the proven rate of CO2 forcing to the next great scientist of our time.

What is CO2 forcing?

What is CO2 forcing? Why is the rate not been proved?

I have offered $10k for the proven reproducible rate for many years with no takers, why?

Following the Science
Become an informed climate activist!
Get Started here with a 150+ known climate questions.
Maybe you are on the same climate journey as me?
Review of the UN IPCC AR4 and AR5.

10kclimatechallenge Chapters

All the Chapters

My Personal Climate Journey

35 years and counting. You may be on the same journey

Review of IPCC AR4 and AR5

Why AR4 and AR5 are so important.

Theory Chapter

Breaks down CO2 forcing and why models are important.

Temperature Chapter

What is warming? Entire earth? Oceans? Surface? What to know.

Model Chapter

Why use models? How are they doing?

Ocean Chapter

Role of the world's oceans that stores over 90% of Earth's heat.

Atmosphere Chapter

Is the atmosphere cooling or warming the earth?

Gases Chapter

Focus on CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

Civilization Chapter

Looking at past climate change affect on previous civilizations.

Question Chapter - ON LINE

Summary of every important question I found in AR4/AR5. More than 150 of them.

Prediction Chapter

Summary of every important prediction I found in AR4/AR5.

What are AR4 and AR5?

The UN’s IPCC Assessment Reports 4 and 5 (AR4 2007 and AR5 2014). are reports including over 600 authors from 32 different countries assessing 9,200 peer-reviewed studies so they are the all-inclusive on the current state of climate science putting out new reports every seven or so years.

AR5 explains the United Nation’s IPCC was created in 1988 to provide world governments with clear information on the state of today’s climate science as well as impacts, options for adaptation and migration based on scientific literature worldwide. (AR5 Section 1.2.1 page 123)

 

Weather versus Climate

Is the weather or the climate easier to predict?

Is the climate easier to predict than the weather?
In AR4 2007 the IPCC believed it was easier to predict the climate than the weather because weather is chaotic making it more unpredictable. They even stated that the climate is very different and more manageable even 50 years down the road. They had a strong believe in the models understanding of the climate processes. (AR4 Page 104 FAQ1.2)
However, seven years later the IPCC did a 180 as AR5 change dramatically. For example, now saying “It is not possible to make deterministic, definitive predictions of how climate will evolve over the next century and beyond as it is with short term weather forecasts.’ (AR5 Section 12.1 Page 1034)
Why did this change? What is going on? I thought the climate was all figured out?

Can You Help?

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