I’ve been looking for a good, easy to read document outlining
the latest climate science research and putting it in context
for Copenhagen and I think I’ve found it. Today in Sydney, the
Climate Change Research Centre, a unit of the University of New
South Wales, released The Copenhagen Diagnosis. It’s free to
download or view online in a nice rich text format so credit to
the centre for making it accessible in multiple attractive
formats. But most praise has to be reserved for the 26
contributing authors who have laid out the science to make it
easy to understand for a layman like myself. Chapters cover
aspects of climate science including “the atmosphere”,
“permafrost and hydrates” and “global sea level”. Throughout are
scattered common questions about climate change and answers
designed to clear up confusion. An example: “Are we just in a
natural warming phase, recovering from the ‘little ice age?‘.
The document, once pictures and the reference section is
including is a slim 50 pages. If you want something