Monthly Archives: October 2013

Workshop on the Roles of Climate Models

Posted on October 31, 2013 by curryja | 327 comments

by Judith Curry

I am in the Netherlands, attending a Workshop on The Roles of Climate Models: Epistemic, Ethical, and Socio-political Perspectives.

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Posted in climate models

Implications for climate models of their disagreement with observations

Posted on October 30, 2013 by curryja | 489 comments

by Judith Curry

How should we interpret the growing disagreement between observations and climate model projections in the first decades of the 21st century? What does this disagreement imply for the epistemology of climate models?

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Posted in climate models

Unprecedented(?) Arctic warming. Part II

Posted on October 29, 2013 by curryja | 392 comments

by Marcia Wyatt

UPDATE: Addendum from Marcia Wyatt

UPDATE: Giff Miller responds

Miller et al.’s 2013 paper – Unprecedented recent summer warmth in Arctic Canada – splashed into the public eye last week with the declaration that current average summer temperatures in the Eastern Canadian Arctic are warmer now than in any century in the past 44,000 years, and perhaps in the past 120,000 years.

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Posted in Polar regions

Open thread weekend

Posted on October 26, 2013 by curryja | 523 comments

by Judith Curry

It’s your turn to introduce topics for discussion.

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Posted in Uncategorized

Unprecedented (?) Arctic warming

Posted on October 25, 2013 by curryja | 444 comments

by Judith Curry

Arctic temperatures highest in at least 44,000 years.

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Posted in Polar regions

Misinformation, disinformation and conflict

Posted on October 25, 2013 by curryja | 296 comments

by Judith Curry

On the other hand, serial climate disinformer Judith Curry (Georgia Tech) announced “Consensus distorts the climate picture.” – Michael Mann

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Posted in Sociology of science

Liberal denial on climate change and energy

Posted on October 24, 2013 by curryja | 366 comments

by Judith Curry

Well, this is an interesting twist on climate denialism.

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Posted in Skeptics

Interpreting the fire weather in New South Wales

Posted on October 23, 2013 by curryja | 341 comments

by Mark Goldstone

On October 21st UN climate chief Christiana Figueres made the unusual statement that the bushfire crisis in NSW is “absolutely” linked to climate change.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Chasing Ice!

Posted on October 22, 2013 by curryja | 287 comments

by Judith Curry

Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.

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Posted in Communication, Polar regions

The ethics of framing science

Posted on October 21, 2013 by curryja | 332 comments

by Judith Curry

. . . as scientists are increasingly viewed not as honest brokers, but as advocates aligned with the goals of the Democratic party, scientists and their organizations risk losing public trust and only likely contribute to polarization on hot button issues like climate change.

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Posted in Communication, Ethics

Perspective from a weather forecaster

Posted on October 20, 2013 by curryja | 363 comments

by Judith Curry

The answer is the fruit of my labor, not the object of it. Because of that, you’ll look for anything to come up with the correct answer, not just a predetermined one where your self-esteem depends on it. – Joe Bastardi

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Posted in Skeptics

Caribbean Water

Posted on October 19, 2013 by curryja | 55 comments

by Rud Istvan

The Associated Press ran an alarming news piece on 9/6/13: Climate Change Threatens Caribbean’s Water Supply

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Posted in Uncategorized

Open thread weekend

Posted on October 18, 2013 by curryja | 508 comments

by Judith Curry

It’s your turn to introduce topics for discussion.

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Posted in Week in review

Trust, and don’t bother to verify

Posted on October 18, 2013 by curryja | 317 comments

by Judith Curry

There is no cost to getting things wrong. The cost is not getting them published. – Brian Nosek, as quoted by the Economist.

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Uncertain future of climate uncertainty

Posted on October 17, 2013 by curryja | 191 comments

by Judith Curry

How believable are the IPCC’s continually increasing confidence levels?

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Posted in Uncertainty

(Micro)agressions on social media

Posted on October 16, 2013 by curryja | 340 comments

by Judith Curry

Online bullying is an issue of growing concern. The flip side is shining an online ‘light’ on hidden bullying.

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Posted in Communication, Ethics

Global warming: a trojan horse of modernity?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by curryja | 422 comments

by Judith Curry

What does this perception of climate controversy reveal about our own understanding of the relationship between science and society, nature and culture, and more generally about our relationship to modernity? – Lionel Scotto D’Apollonia

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Posted in Sociology of science

Big(ger) coal

Posted on October 15, 2013 by curryja | 334 comments

by Judith Curry

China has no alternative to coal, with its domestic gas output limited and liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports more costly than coal. – William Durbin

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Posted in Energy

Ironic impact of activists

Posted on October 14, 2013 by curryja | 247 comments

by Judith Curry

Canadian researchers report people hold negative views of political and social activists, and their unwillingness to associate with such people dampens the likelihood of changing their behavior.

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Posted in Communication

Words of wisdom from Ed Lorenz

Posted on October 13, 2013 by curryja | 314 comments

by Judith Curry

Insights from Ed Lorenz, pioneer of chaos theory, on the detection of anthropogenic global warming.

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Posted in Attribution

Spinning the climate model-observations comparison. Part III

Posted on October 13, 2013 by curryja | 223 comments

Several new analyses of relevance to interpreting the comparison of climate models with observations.

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Posted in Attribution

A physicist reflects on the climate debate

Posted on October 12, 2013 by curryja | 364 comments

by Pierre Darriulat

My interest, or rather curiosity, in climate science has taken me into landscapes that I had never seriously explored before and has opened my eyes and mind on unexpected topics.

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364 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized