About
This blog is about climate science with an emphasis on the observational side. Although climate science will be explored also more generally here, the emphasis is on the issues relating to the ongoing climate change. The AGW in the title stands for Anthropogenic Global Warming, which is a commonly used term for the current human-caused global warming.
I am not a professional climate scientist, but just an interested layman who has been getting familiar particularly to the observational side of the issue by reading the research papers on the subject. I hope I can offer some relevant information on the subject especially as the public discussion on the subject tends to focus more on what climate models can do instead of emphasizing the observational body of evidence which is very large and in my opinion convincing by itself even without far-reaching climate theories or models (which is not to say that climate models are not important and useful tools – they are).
About author:
– Name: Ari Jokimäki
– Location: Espoo, Finland
– Year of birth: 1967
– Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering
– Other hobbies: Astronomy, observing and documenting nature, guitar & bass playing, soccer
E-mail:
My articles on climate science have also been published in following blogs:
Ilmastotieto (Finnish)
CO2-raportti (Finnish)
Skeptical Science
I have authored one peer-reviewed article on astronomy:
A catalogue of M51 type galaxy associations – Jokimäki, Orr & Russell (2008)
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 315, Numbers 1-4, 249-283, DOI: 10.1007/s10509-008-9826-3 [Full text and other stuff available here]
AGW Observer 
Nils Simon said
Dear Ari, I have once tried to establish a similar collection of papers (including abstracts and PDF links) at the German Wikiversity. Though I didn’t keep it updated after some time, you might find some of the lists interesting and maybe want to copy+paste them here. The collection can be found at http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Benutzer:Nils_Simon/Klimatologie , and while it is in German all abstracts are of course in English, so you should not have a hard time looking for useful stuff. Cheers, Nils
Ari Jokimäki said
Yes, there seems to be many papers I think I’ll add to my lists, thank you.
John Hartz said
Ari,
What are the sources of the CO2 isotopes C13 and C14?
Thanks,
John Hartz, USA
Ari Jokimäki said
Hi John,
That’s a good question. I’ll answer it in the “papers on anthropogenic carbon dioxide observations”:
That is a list of papers dealing with issues relating to your question, and I would like to keep this “about” page free from comments (I though I had locked comments for this page but apparently not 🙂 ).