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Dr. Edward Hanna has been interested in meteorology since age 7 (in 1981!) when he drew his first temperature graph! Edward went on to complete a BSc in Planetary Science from University College London in 1995 and PhD in Satellite Remote Sensing of Antarctic Sea Ice and Climatic Couplings at the University of Bristol in 1998. This was followed by a short period of postdoctoral research in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading before being appointed as lecturer in Meteorology at the Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth in 2000. In 2003 Edward was appointed as lecturer in climate change at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. Edward is a Fellow of both the Royal Meteorological and Royal Astronomical Societies and is an Editorial Board member of WEATHER (RMetS).
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Can the Sun affect Earth’s climate? (Part 2) As we saw in my last blog, solar-energy variations over the eleven-year sunspot cycle are insufficient by themselves to cause a major effect on Earth’s climate. However, long-term (multi-decadal to centennial-timescale) trends in solar radiation, as I reported in a paper in Weather magazine (Royal Meteorological Society) in 1996, have the potential to cause notable long-term changes in global temperature....
Posted: 31.03.08 - 09.17PM
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Can the Sun affect Earth’s climate? (Part 1) Several weeks ago I gave a lecture on the effect of the Sun on our climate, to my third-year undergraduate class on “Contemporary Climate Change and Processes”....
Posted: 25.03.08 - 01.59PM
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More thoughts concerning the vulnerability of polar ice to global warming A recent report by Professor Timothy Lenton (University of East Anglia and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) and colleagues identifies and ranks key “tipping elements” of the global climate system, that are likely to represent critical thresholds of change with long-term consequences....
Posted: 20.02.08 - 09.17PM
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Why do we no longer have any cold UK winters? Yet again it seems we’re escaping the worst ravages of a cold British winter. Last month (January 2008), with an average temperature almost 3 degrees above normal, was the fourth warmest January in England since 1914, according to official Met. Office statistics....
Posted: 11.02.08 - 11.26AM
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Vulnerability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets to global warming Two new scientific papers published in quick succession this week indicate that the World’s main ice masses of Antarctica and Greenland may be more sensitive to global warming than previously believed....
Posted: 17.01.08 - 09.26AM
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Global warming and polar meltdown: myth or reality? Santa is likely to have taken extra care over the route chosen to deliver his Christmas goodies this year as Earth’s (northern) polar cap shrinks incessantly towards the North Pole. A recent newsletter from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, USA, announced that this year’s Arctic sea-ice reached its annual minimum extent of 4....
Posted: 30.12.07 - 07.23PM
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Climate change: the gap between talk and action – and an interesting gender bias I recently gave my first-year university geography class a survey on climate change. This was mainly designed to get real data that then could be used to teach them principles of statistics. However, the exercise also yielded some very interesting information on how my students – and presumably many young, reasonably well-educated people today – regard the whole global-warming issue....
Posted: 25.11.07 - 10.31PM
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16 October 1987 Today is the twentieth anniversary of the Great Storm that hit south-east
Posted: 16.10.07 - 04.29AM
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Does global warming mean more storms? - ISOMETABAR Part 1 I’m just starting a new project to investigate changes in storminess that are part and parcel of climate change and could possibly be linked with global warming. The work so far, which is done in collaboration with partners at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Danish Meteorological Institute and others, has mainly involved pulling together long barometric pressure records running back a century or more in time....
Posted: 16.08.07 - 05.46PM
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Reply to Danny Boy
I did see that programme and it was pretty dreadful because - however much I agree with some of the sentiments expressed (there *are* key remaining uncertainties concerning global-warming predictions, although the basic science is not in doubt) - overall the programme badly misrepresented the views of key climate scientists and current understanding of climate change....
Posted: 10.05.07 - 06.02PM
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