Monthly Archives: January 2014

“Arctic temperature anomalies in the 1930s were apparently as large as those in the 1990s and 2000s. There is still considerable discussion of the ultimate causes of the warm temperature anomalies that occurred in the Arctic in the 1920s and 1930s.” – IPCC AR5 Chapter 10

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Posted in Polar regions

Mann versus Steyn

Posted on January 26, 2014 by curryja | 541 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting developments and rhetoric in the Mann versus Steyn lawsuit.

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Posted in Ethics

Death(?) of expertise

Posted on January 25, 2014 by curryja | 629 comments

by Judith Curry

I fear we are witnessing the “death of expertise”: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those of any achievement in an area and those with none at all. – Tom Nicholls

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Posted in Sociology of science

The logic(?) of the IPCC’s attribution statement

Posted on January 23, 2014 by curryja | 600 comments

by Judith Curry

How can the IPCC increase their confidence in anthropogenic global warming at the same time their model projections are diverging farther and farther from reality? – John Nielsen-Gammon

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Posted in Attribution

Ocean heat content uncertainties

Posted on January 21, 2014 by curryja | 616 comments

by Judith Curry

Central to arguments related to the hiatus and the ‘missing heat’ is the assertion that unusual amounts of heat are being stored in the deep ocean, and that this heat will eventually reappear at the surface. Exactly how good is the ocean heat content data on which this argument is based?

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Posted in Data and observations

The case of the missing heat

Posted on January 20, 2014 by curryja | 793 comments

by Judith Curry

Sixteen years into the mysterious ‘global-warming hiatus’, scientists are piecing together an explanation. – Jeff Tollefson

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Posted in Attribution

Mann on advocacy and responsibility

Posted on January 18, 2014 by curryja | 672 comments

by Judith Curry

“If you see something, say something.”

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Posted in Ethics

Senate EPW Hearing on the President’s Climate Action Plan

Posted on January 16, 2014 by curryja | 679 comments

by Judith Curry

The hearing is now concluded, I’m on a plane flying back to Atlanta.

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Posted in Policy

Forthcoming Senate EPW Hearing on President’s Climate Action Plan

Posted on January 13, 2014 by curryja | 504 comments

by Judith Curry

The Hearing is scheduled for Jan 16, and I have been tapped to testify.

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The Fundamental Uncertainties of Climate Change

Posted on January 8, 2014 by curryja | 772 comments

by Garth Paltridge

There is more than enough uncertainty about the forecasting of climate to allow normal human beings to be at least reasonably hopeful that global warming might not be nearly as bad as is currently touted. Climate scientists, and indeed scientists in general, are not so lucky. They have a lot to lose if time should prove them wrong.

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Posted in Uncertainty