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)
Temperature Questions
These are all the questions I found related to this topic in the 3000+ pages of IPCC AR4 and AR5.
AR6 coming soon!
Because of ocean currents the IPCC makes it clear not all regions are warming and when warming they are not warming at the same rate. As a result many questions exist.
For example, the IPCC tells us here a few regions have cooled since 1901 like northern North Atlantic near southern Greenland. They claim “warming at the same time has been strongest over the interiors of Asia and northern North America”. They show regions in a figure here of the warming and cooling in the Pacific Ocean that has resulted from El Nino. (AR4 FAQ 3.1 Page 252 (AR5 37)
Here the IPCC notes change in global temperature is not the same in all regions. However, they claim they have “very high confidence that globally averaged changes over land will exceed changes over the ocean at the end of the 21st century by a factor that is likely in the range 1.4 to 1.7.” They have “very high confidence” the Artic will lead the way in warming. (AR5 Chapter 12 Executive Summary Page 1031 (342)
What Regions are Warming? Above
So Many Temperature Questions.
Last, here are those other temperature questions not listed in the other sections.
For example, Boreholes:
Boreholes are narrow shafts bored down into the ground, in many cases to find water or gases. These are an excellent place to measure surface temperature changes because rocks effect the flow of heat making them ideal for measuring short term temperatures as the rocks smooth temperature changes out.
The Questions Chapter
Over 150 climate questions from AR4/AR5.
Questions and more questions.
This section highlights all the important climate questions described in the UN’s IPCC assessment reports, AR4 and AR5. AR6 is coming soon!
AR4 and AR5 make up the most complete and current climate information out there, a road map for future generations. However, they are not the easiest reads because information on any particular subject is found throughout the 3000+ pages of these reports.
You make think over time there would be less questions as the climate gets figured out, but from AR4 to AR5 the number of question and material increased by several fold.
One reason for this increase in climate questions from AR4 to AR5 is the fact many predictions made in AR4 were missed, and things have been learned.
The IPCC examines most of these in more detail throughout AR5 using AR4 as a base for the science.
Inspiring the next generation
You might be on the same path?
Sharing what I have learned in my 35 years of being a “climate activist”.
Be an informed climate activist or maybe even the next great 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.
Review of the IPCC AR4 and AR5
Collection of 9200 peer-reviewed climate studies. This is the science with 100s of questions, contradictions, missed predictions, areas lacking data, and more.
Following the Science
Become an informed climate activist!
10kclimatechallange
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 is the IPCC?
UN’s IPCC Assessment Reports 4 and 5 (AR4 2007 and AR5 2014). These UN reports include 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 potential impacts, and options for adaptation and migration based on regular assessments”. (AR5 Section 1.2.1 page 123)