User talk:Pflatau
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[edit] Atmospheric thermodynamics
Good work on that image contribution and discussion section:--Sadi Carnot 00:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wilhelm von Bezold
Thank you for contributing this stub! I have announced it at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. If you write more about German scientists, please announce your articles there. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 16:31, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Soil
I am hoping tha some aspects of this project will interest you. Cheers! -- 67.185.75.97 07:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GW cat changes
You've moved many pages into cl-ch-feedbacks-and-causes. Why is Global cooling in this cat? Or GW?
William M. Connolley 07:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
There are several cooling mechanisms proposed: aerosols (non absorbing) reflection, orbital changes, sun activity, increased cloud cover (reflection). All of them are feedbacks - one adds something (say reflecting aerosols) and Earth's surface is cooling. Some of these feedbacks are related to aerosols and clouds (so called Twomey effects) - i.e. aerosols influence cloud microphysics (droplet size) which causes more reflection (e.g. "ship tracks") This is why I moved greenhouse effect, aerosol effect, cloud effect, orbital, sunspots to "climate change feedbacks and causes". Same with GW. Global warming is based on feedbacks (CO2 introduced --> water vapor increases --> temperature changes; direct CO2 effect is relatively small). Either through increased CO2, or absorbing soot, etc. Now, the main reason was that I wanted to separate climate change policy, assessment (mostly IPCC), from climate change feedbacks; i.e. to separate politics from science. Also (important) I wanted to intruduce classification in climate change categories, because there were too many articles in one category. More work is needed there and help will be appreciated. I have noticed that "forcing", "attribution" and "causes" are similiar and we will need to address this bu adjusting category names slightly. But, I think that "climate change policy", "climate change assesment", "cimate change feedbacks", "climate change forcings" can form basis for the category "climate change". With "global warming" and "global cooling" we can move them back to "climate change" mostly because of their prominence; agree. Pflatau 14:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A quick hello
Peter, this is you, right? Just saying hello. It's been quite a while. Raymond Arritt 00:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mesoscale Convective Complex
My apologies for my revert of your edit. It took me a moment to see what you had done - I thought I had reverted myself, but I see that you beat me to it :) Crimsone 16:45, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
