Over the past several years I've written a few pages about climate. they don't really go together, but they're not completely independent, either. There's a good chance I'll write more or split the climate change page into sections, so I decided to write this home page now instead of later.

• 1816: The Year without a Summer
  This was inspired by finally hunting down a granite monument to this year that is close to one place I lived. I created a geocache for that I named Summerless

• 2016: The [Next] Year without a Summer
  When the movie "The Day after Tomorrow" came out, I just had to write something about the bad science in it. Besides, the director said he hoped the movie would inspire discussion. Ice cores from Greenland show the climate there can change in a couple of decades, and this page looks at some of the real science behind it. I never really finished the page as the movie didn't inspire much discussion at all.

• Science, method, climatology, and forgetting the basics
  What passes as debate about climate change seems to involve people who do not understand science and scientists who have forgotten what science is all about. Recent events are giving us the chance to get things back on course and inspired me to write this essay. If it works, it will explain to lay people the basics about the scientific method, describe the leading theories behind climate change, and get scientists from both sides of the debate to invite the other to their next picnic. I will then move onto bringing peace and prosperity to the Middle East. Actually, I'll be happy if it gets a few people thinking and watching what may be a very important period in climate study.

• Re: Gore's Message To Climate Change Skeptics
  This is a letter I wrote to 60 Minute's correspondent Lesley Stahl about a segment that seems to be a kickoff for a $300,000,000 effort to get people excited about global warming. Gore says "I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat. That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off." I couldn't let that pass.

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Last updated 2008 March 29.