Dear CDG2024 invitees,
Here are a few notes about the mode of operation of this Climate email discussion
1. If you have not already done so, please send an email to Gerald.ratzer@mcgill.ca to say you want to participate in the moderated discussion and make a contribution or comment, as opposed to just reading the discussion.
2. Once you have decided to contribute some comments or other material, you should send a short email with links to any recent articles, papers, podcasts or slide shows you have created.
3. Agood way to get involved is to take the initial invitation or introduction (attached) and insert your comments in a different color where there is a point that catches your attention. Send this edited version to the email above.
4. All accepted comments will be posted online at allaboutenergy.net. Scroll down to see the Sun (click on it) or use the search feature of the website to see the CDG2024 Home page or any author by name. If the search field is not visible at the top left-hand side of the page – try the MS Edge/Bing browser.
5. There are two threads about which we would like to hear from you -
A. The discussion of the more technical aspects of Climate – RTC (Radiation Transfer Concept) and HTC (Heat Transport Concept), including other aspects of the atmosphere, including GHGs.
B. Short bulleted Recommendations for Policymakers. These can be items associated with Net Zero, CO2 reduction, fossil fuels, etc.
6. Please stay on topic. If you wander off to a different topic – your submission may not be posted to the website. The same applies to any ad hominin attacks.
7. We are planning a weekly “newsletter” with recent additions to the CDG2024 website, which we hope will encourage you to see what others are saying and thinking in the discussion group. This is the first such Newsletter. You can opt out of this newsletter if want by sending an email to
the moderator. This could be as simple as returning this email with the word “Unsubscribe” in the Subject line.
8. The next diagrams show you how to get to the discussion and Newsletter, and what to expect in the way of navigation.
Click on this link to access the main website used allaboutenergy.net
Scroll down to see this page – Click on the title or the photo of the Sun.
This will take you to the home page of CDG2024.
There are seven brightly colored boxes – also, numbered [1], [2]...
• The yellow box gives you access to the technical discussion, where there are seven sub-sections labeled (C1) to (C7).
• We would like contributors to suggest an appropriate category for their submissions.
• The blue box has six categories for “Recommendations for Policymakers”. Again, please suggest a category (P1) to (P6) for your recommendations.
• The lower half of the Home Page looks like this -
• The green box will contain all the Newsletters so far.
• Box [4] will be of interest to you as it has the list of invitees, so far, and some of their recent papers and podcasts.
• Page two of the Home page has –
• This will contain the final reports.
This first Newsletter gives some further ideas on how to navigate to the CDG discussion and what you can expect to see there.
Afinal reminder, that contributions should be reasonably short (a page or two), but can include links to recent papers and talks that are online. Please use hotlinks, whenever possible.
Enjoy this research on the latest thinking in Climate Science.