Comments - From COP1 to COP26:flashes of brilliance... - Gaia Community2024-03-28T10:28:23Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A127802&xn_auth=noWhat are El Niño and La Niña,…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2024-02-24:5313775:Comment:1326072024-02-24T11:14:36.547ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
What are El Niño and La Niña, and how do they change the weather?<br />
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What are El Niño and La Niña, and how do they change the weather?<br />
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<p></p> During the first half of the…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2021-10-31:5313775:Comment:1278042021-10-31T11:12:27.049ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span><br></br><strong><a href="https://history.aip.org/climate/Govt.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">During the first half of the 20th century</a></strong>, it would have been hard to find any institution that gave a penny specifically to support research on climate change. The work was donated by individuals, mostly university professors who were…</span></p>
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<p><span><br/><strong><a href="https://history.aip.org/climate/Govt.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During the first half of the 20th century</a></strong>, it would have been hard to find any institution that gave a penny specifically to support research on climate change. The work was donated by individuals, mostly university professors who were paid more for their teaching than for research, let alone for any particular subject of research. <strong>The most important greenhouse effect work in the entire half</strong>-<strong>century <em>was done by a complete amateur</em></strong>, <strong>the engineer <a href="https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/nov07.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">G.S. Callendar</a></strong>, <strong>in his spare time</strong>. National meteorological services like the United States Weather Bureau, driven especially by the needs of military and civilian aviation, did spend large and increasing sums to observe the atmosphere. But this treasury of data was compiled for daily forecasts and was seldom used for basic research. The few climatologists that national agencies supported were hired only to compile dull statistics of average weather conditions.<br/><br/>Around midcentury some meteorologists began to call for a more vigorous research effort. In 1953, a government advisory committee reported that the entire Weather Bureau needed new, young blood. Modest research that a few outstanding individuals had undertaken before the war had suffered a "slow, almost lingering death." The committee warned that climatology, starved for funds, was scientifically moribund. Their report led to the appointment of a new climatology chief, Helmut Landsberg, who brought an improved "esprit de corps" and an important expansion. His group's main job, however, was still routine processing of data on past climates. Another report presented in 1957 complained that climate research remained a stepchild at the Bureau, inadequate in scope, with climatologists mostly "relegated to a mere housekeeping function. While climate studies languished at the Weather Bureau, however, a flood of new Federal money began to push the field forward in other institutions, even though their missions were remote from weather research.<br/><br/></span></p>
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