The most amazing greening on Earth

Posted on September 19, 2018 by | 175 comments

by Patrick J. Michaels

We’ve long been fond of showing the satellite evidence for planetary greening caused by increasing carbon dioxide, particularly the work of Zhu et al.(2016):

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Hurricane Florence: climate dynamics context

Posted on September 18, 2018 by | 54 comments

by Judith Curry

“Impending massive hurricanes bring the best out of weather twitter and the worst out of climate twitter” – Joseph Maykut

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A Test of the Tropical 200-300 mb Warming Rate in Climate Models

Posted on September 17, 2018 by | 189 comments

by Ross McKitrick

I sat down to write a description of my new paper with John Christy, but when I looked up a reference via Google Scholar something odd cropped up that requires a brief digression.

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Posted in climate models

Week in review – science edition

Posted on September 15, 2018 by | 182 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Beyond Milankovitch

Posted on September 8, 2018 by | 368 comments

by Donald Rapp

On the terminations of Ice Ages.

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Warming patterns are unlikely to explain low historical estimates of climate sensitivity

Posted on September 5, 2018 by | 146 comments

By Nic Lewis

A critique of of a new paper by Andrews  et al., Accounting for changing temperature patterns increases historical estimates of climate sensitivity.

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Posted in climate models, Sensitivity & feedbacks

The lure of incredible certitude

Posted on September 1, 2018 by | 474 comments

by Judith Curry

“If you want people to believe what you *do* know, you need to be up front about what you *don’t* know.”-  Charles Manski

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Posted in Uncertainty