by Judith Curry
“That’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.” – Malcolm Gladwell
Posted in Uncategorized
by Judith Curry
So, is climate change a local or global threat? Are we risking global ruin?
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
As the issue of bias in climate science heats up, Christopher Essex has written the best defense of freedom of scientific enquiry that I’ve seen emerge from the Grijalva inquisition.
Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
The Washington Post has this dramatic headline: Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the ocean with potentially dire consequences.
Posted in Attribution, Polar regions
by Judith Curry
The emergence of candidates for U.S. President in the 2016 election is raising some interesting issues about climate change.
Posted in Politics
by Judith Curry
Interest is running high this week on the topic of climate sensitivity.
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
by Tom Quirke
The raw Melbourne temperature records of the Bureau of Meteorology are compared to the ACORN-Sat values. The ACORN-Sat adjustments are evaluated. This analysis shows evidence for a strong urban heat island effect.
Posted in Data and observations
by Judith Curry
People seem to want to discuss blog discussions/comments, so here’s a thread to deflect such conversation from other threads.
Posted in Communication
by Nic Lewis
A new paper on aerosol radiative forcing has important implications for estimates of climate sensitivity.
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
by Judith Curry
Our geosciences community too often gives the impression that we care primarily about more funding for our research. Such overt self-interest poses risks to our community and to society. – Bill Hooke
Posted in Sociology of science
by Euan Mearns
UK blogger Paul Homewood and Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker have managed to stir public interest in the veracity of adjustments made to temperature records by the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN).
Posted in Data and observations
by Judith Curry
Naomi Oreskes’ new movie Merchants of Doubt has recently been released. Does this movie provide the seeds for ending the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme?
Posted in Communication, Sociology of science
Posted in Uncategorized
by Judith Curry
I (and others) have characterized climate change as a ‘wicked problem’ – systemic, self-fuelling tangles, which are multidimensional, hard to define and generate new problems when one tries to solve the old ones.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
An important new paper finds that the albedo of Earth is highly regulated, mostly by clouds, with some surprising consequences.
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
by Judith Curry
Big Players of any sort distort the normal systemic activity and render the emergent outcomes unstable and unreliable and create an ideal breeding ground for incentives that motivate ideologically biased people to circumvent normal constraints in the name of pursuing a “greater good”.
Posted in Sociology of science
by Judith Curry
Two new papers were published last week of relevance to the hiatus.
Posted in Attribution
by Roger Pielke Sr., Phil Klotzbach, John Christy and Dick McNider
An update is presented of the analysis of Klotzbach et al. 2009.
Posted in Data and observations
Posted in IPCC
by Rud Istvan
UPDATE: Response from Christopher Monckton
The Monckton, Soon, Legates, and Briggs paper “Why models run hot, results from an irreducibly simple climate model” appeared in the January 2015 Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Hereinafter MSLB.
Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks
