Monthly Archives: November 2015

How sensitive is global temperature to cumulative CO2 emissions?

Posted on November 30, 2015 by curryja | 436 comments

by Nic Lewis

The mean carbon cycle behaviour of CMIP5 ESMs and EMICs may be quite unrealistic.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Deep de-carbonisation of electricity grids

Posted on November 29, 2015 by curryja | 124 comments

by Peter Lang

J. P. Morgan recently published an excellent report ‘Deep de-carbonisation of electricity grids‘. Below are excerpts from the report and some comment added by me.

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Posted in Energy

Decision making under uncertainty – maximize expected social welfare

Posted on November 29, 2015 by curryja | 207 comments

by -1=e^i pi

Expected social welfare maximization is where you try to obtain the set of parameters (such as climate change policies) that will maximize the expected value of a social welfare function.

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Posted in Policy

Week in review – science and technology edition

Posted on November 28, 2015 by curryja | 195 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Climate Heretic. Part II

Posted on November 26, 2015 by curryja | 420 comments

by Judith Curry

David Rose has published an interview with me in the Spectator.

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Posted in Skeptics

The rise and fall of Central England Temperature

Posted on November 25, 2015 by curryja | 119 comments

by Tony Brown

Over the last 15 years interesting things have been happening at CET-the world’s longest instrumental record, dating to 1660.

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Posted in Data and observations

Environmentalism versus science

Posted on November 24, 2015 by curryja | 292 comments

Words of wisdom from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Posted in Ethics

A buoy-only sea surface temperature record

Posted on November 22, 2015 by curryja | 492 comments

by Zeke Hausfather and Kevin Cowtan

A buoy-only sea surface temperature record supports NOAA’s adjustments.

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Posted in Oceans

Week in review – energy and policy edition

Posted on November 22, 2015 by curryja | 66 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Week in review – science edition

Posted on November 21, 2015 by curryja | 262 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Climate culture

Posted on November 20, 2015 by curryja | 274 comments

by Andy West

A frequent topic at Climate Etc. is the ‘consensus.’ An argument is presented here that the climate consensus is as much about culture as it is about climate science.

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Posted in Consensus, Sociology of science

Iatrogenic (?) climate policy

Posted on November 18, 2015 by curryja | 461 comments

by Judith Curry

So, is the climate ‘cure’ worse than the climate ‘disease’?

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Posted in Economics, Policy

400(?) years of warming

Posted on November 16, 2015 by curryja | 474 comments

by Judith Curry

So, exactly how long has it been warming?

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Posted in Attribution, Data and observations

Call for an ethical framework for climate services

Posted on November 12, 2015 by curryja | 241 comments

by Judith Curry

The urgent need for an ethical framework is heightened by the recognition that negative consequences can arise when climate services are not used to robustly translate science into the decision-making context or when services are deployed in ways that (implicitly or explicitly) bias an outcome.

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Posted in Ethics

Lomborg: Impact of Current Climate Proposals

Posted on November 9, 2015 by curryja | 276 comments

by Judith Curry

Current climate policy promises will do little to stabilize the climate and their impact will be undetectable for many decades. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Posted in Policy

Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Is Fossil Fuel Like Tobacco?

Posted on November 8, 2015 by curryja | 202 comments

by Lucas Bergkamp

At a Workshop in 2012, a group of scientists, lawyers and advocacy groups discussed what lessons could be learned from the tobacco litigation for launching successful climate change litigation against corporations.

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Posted in Policy

Hiatus controversy: show me the data

Posted on November 6, 2015 by curryja | 674 comments

by Judith Curry

The scientific and political controversies surrounding the hiatus have continued to heat up. Lets take a look at ALL the global temperature data sets.

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Posted in Data and observations

JC op ed: the politics surrounding global temperature data

Posted on November 5, 2015 by curryja | 381 comments

by Judith Curry

My op-ed in Fox News: Is government tinkering with global warming data?

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Posted in Ethics, Politics

Lukewarming

Posted on November 5, 2015 by curryja | 199 comments

by Judith Curry

Two new books on lukewarming have recently been published.

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Posted in Attribution, Communication, Policy

Steve Koonin: The tough realities of the Paris climate talks

Posted on November 4, 2015 by curryja | 256 comments

by Judith Curry

And, overarching all this, the tension between emissions reductions and development is complicated by uncertainties in how the climate will change under human and natural influences and how those changes will impact natural and human systems. – Steve Koonin

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Posted in Energy, Policy