by Judith Curry
Regarding the Hockey Stick of IPCC 2001 evidence now indicates, in my view, that an IPCC Lead Author working with a small cohort of scientists, misrepresented the temperature record of the past 1000 years by (a) promoting his own result as the best estimate, (b) neglecting studies that contradicted his, and (c) amputating another’s result so as to eliminate conflicting data and limit any serious attempt to expose the real uncertainties of these data. – John Christy
Posted in IPCC
by Roger A. Pielke Sr., Richard T. McNider, and John Christy
The thing we’ve all forgotten is the heat storage of the ocean – it’s a thousand times greater than the atmosphere and the surface. – James Lovelock
Posted in Uncategorized
by Judith Curry
For balance, for every @curryja you would need 30 from mainstream. – Victor Venema
by Judith Curry
Many of the more worrying impacts of climate change really are symptoms of mismanagement and underdevelopment. – Richard Tol
Posted in IPCC
by Judith Curry
Since the early 1990s, sea level rose at a mean rate of ~3.1 mm yr−1. However, over the last decade a slowdown of this rate, of about 30%, has been recorded. – Cazenave et al.
Posted in Climate change impacts
by Dave Rutledge
Now that Working Group 3 has put its chapters on line, all six thousand pages of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report have arrived. Coal is the specter that looms.
Posted in Energy
by Judith Curry
Science is not concerned only with things that we understand. The most exciting and creative parts of science are concerned with things that we are still struggling to understand. Wrong theories are not an impediment to the progress of science. They are a central part of the struggle. – Freeman Dyson
Posted in History
by Judith Curry
If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that. – Mark Steyn
Posted in Skeptics
by Judith Curry
If we omit discussion of tail risk, are we really telling the whole truth?
Posted in Uncertainty
by Judith Curry
This past week, there have been several essays and one debate that provide some good perspectives on what we don’t know about climate change, and whether we should be alarmed.
Posted in Skeptics
by Douglas Sheil
Despite major investments in incorporating land cover in climate simulation models, much remains uncertain, especially concerning the influence of land-cover change on cloud cover and rain.
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
by Judith Curry
It is alarming that so many Nobel Prize recipients have lamented that they would never have survived this current academic environment. What are the implications of this on the discovery of future scientific paradigm shifts and scientific inquiry in general?
Posted in Uncategorized
by Judith Curry
A new report from the IPCC implies that “climate exceptionalism”, the notion that global warming is a problem like no other, is coming to an end. – Economist
Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy
