Climate Etc.

Doubt has been eliminated (?)

Posted on May 26, 2012 | 89 Comments

by Judith Curry

In a speech before the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, said:

So what is it that is new today? What is new is that doubt has been eliminated. The report of the International Panel on Climate Change is clear. And so is the Stern report. It is irresponsible, reckless and deeply immoral to question the seriousness of the situation. The time for diagnosis is over. Now it is time to act (Brundtland 2007).

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Posted in Uncertainty

Heartburn at Heartland

Posted on May 24, 2012 | 581 Comments

by Judith Curry

UPDATE: Email from Joe Bast

“You can not simultaneously say that you want to promote a debate while equating the other side to terrorists and mass murderers.” — Ross McKitrick

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Posted in Skeptics

Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature

Posted on May 23, 2012 | 223 Comments

by Judith Curry

“Our results also serve to highlight the importance of Atlantic multidecadal variability in mediating the rate of global warming, and they suggest that these variations deserve more explicit consideration in twentieth century climate simulations and in attribution studies based on recent observations of the rate of change of [global mean surface temperature]. — Wu et al. (2012)

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Posted in Attribution

Copenhagen Consensus 2012

Posted on May 20, 2012 | 690 Comments

by David Hagen

The results of The Copenhagen Consensus 2012 have just been released. Bjørn Lomborg assembled a blue ribbon panel including Nobel Laureate economists. They ranked the top 30 most important humanitarian projects.

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