Monthly Archives: February 2015

Conflicts of interest in climate science

Posted on February 25, 2015 by curryja | 745 comments

by Judith Curry

Once you tug on the thread of undisclosed financial interests in climate science, you’ll find it more a norm than exception. – Roger Pielke Jr (tweet)

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Posted in Ethics

NARUC Panel Discussion on Climate Change

Posted on February 24, 2015 by curryja | 198 comments

by Judith Curry

At its recent Winter Meeting, The National Associated of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) asked the following question: You’re Still Not Sure Global Warming is Real?

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Posted in Communication

Mitigating CO2 emissions: a busted flush?

Posted on February 23, 2015 by curryja | 263 comments

by Michael Kelly

One graph I caught up with this week has convinced me that climate change mitigation by supressing carbon dioxide emissions is a busted flush that history will look back on with great ridicule, even if the worst of the climate alarmist predictions come to pass.

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Posted in Uncategorized

Understanding Time of Observation Bias

Posted on February 22, 2015 by curryja | 575 comments

by Zeke Hausfather

Global temperatures are adjusted to account for the effects of station moves, instrument changes, time of observation (TOBs) changes, and other factors (referred to as inhomogenities) that cause localized non-climatic biases in the instrumental record.

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Posted in Data and observations

The Intermittent Little Ice Age

Posted on February 19, 2015 by curryja | 376 comments

by Tony Brown

Is our popular understanding of the ‘Little Ice Age’ (LIA) correct, as being a predominantly cold era lasting 500 years, leavened by a few brief warm spells?

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Posted in History

Public intellectuals in the climate space

Posted on February 17, 2015 by curryja | 444 comments

by Judith Curry

Wanted: disruptive ideas on climate change.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Denizens II

Posted on February 15, 2015 by curryja | 261 comments

by Judith Curry

The recent article by Paul Matthews has motivated me to start a new ‘Denizens’ thread.

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Posted in Welcome

Berkeley Earth: raw versus adjusted temperature data

Posted on February 9, 2015 by curryja | 1,178 comments

by Robert Rohde, Zeke Hausfather, Steve Mosher

Christopher Booker’s recent piece along with a few others have once again raised the issue of adjustments to various temperature series, including those made by Berkeley Earth. And now Booker has double-downed accusing people of fraud and Anthony Watts previously insinuated that adjustments are somehow criminal .

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Posted in Data and observations

Clean Air – Who Pays?

Posted on February 9, 2015 by curryja | 223 comments

by Planning Engineer

A recent posting presented taxonomy of potential policy perspectives around climate/energy policy. The ensuing comments brought home the unfortunate recognition that energy providers have not advocated specific actions and preferred directions for climate/energy policy. I think they have a good story. Why aren’t they telling it?

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Posted in Policy

On determination of tropical feedbacks

Posted on February 6, 2015 by curryja | 184 comments

by Greg Goodman

Satellite data for the period surrounding the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991 provide a means of estimating the scale of the volcanic forcing in the tropics. A simple relaxation model is used to examine how temporal evolution of the climate response will differ from the that of the radiative forcing.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks