(meteorobs) Fwd: "meteor smoke" is essential to the formation of noctilucent clouds.

dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de
Tue Aug 7 22:23:10 EDT 2012


> how many of you are aware of the fact that global temperatures have
> remained statistically flat (if not slightly declining) for the last
> *15* years

Only those refusing to look at the actual data like
http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temperature/ - the warming trend is very
stable now, and the scientific debate has *long* moved beyond just
establishing this fact.

Regarding a link between NLC trends and global climate, one finds a
popular (i.e. high Google pagerank :-) little paper by a former professor
of mine who saw neither significant changes in the NLC pattern or a
climate link in http://userweb.eng.gla.ac.uk/william.ward/eos_review.pdf -
but that was a decade ago.

Now http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22noctilucent+clouds%22+climate
brings up roughly one thousand other papers, including 57 published in
2012 alone: Obviously NLC are a pretty active field of research and
sorting out the state of the art can't be done with just one mouse click
...

Dan



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