Monthly Archives: November 2016

Prospects for a Prolonged Slowdown in Global Warming in the Early 21st Century

Posted on November 30, 2016 by | 274 comments

by Nic Lewis

[W]e estimate that the warming slowdown (< 0.1 K/decade trend beginning in 1998) could persist, due to internal variability cooling, through 2020, 2025 or 2030 with probabilities 16%, 11%, and 6%, respectively. – Knutson et al.

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Posted in Attribution, climate models

The real war on science

Posted on November 21, 2016 by | 596 comments

by Judith Curry

The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress. – John Tierney

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Carbon is not the enemy

Posted on November 19, 2016 by | 138 comments

by Judith Curry

Design with the natural cycle in mind to ensure that carbon ends up in the right places. — William McDonough

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Posted in Adaptation

Climate models for lawyers

Posted on November 12, 2016 by | 315 comments

by Judith Curry

I have been asked to write an Expert Report on climate models.

***SEE UPDATE

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Posted in climate models

Post-mortem on the forecasts of Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew

Posted on November 7, 2016 by | 27 comments

by Judith Curry

Reflections on forecasting hurricanes in light of U.S. landfalling Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew, highlighting the complexities of forecast ensemble interpretation.

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Posted in Extreme events, Hurricanes

Climate modelers open up their black boxes to scrutiny

Posted on November 5, 2016 by | 220 comments

by Judith Curry

Paul Voosen has written a remarkable article in Science about climate model tuning.

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Posted in climate models

International Water Prize

Posted on November 2, 2016 by | 62 comments

by Judith Curry

Peter Webster has been awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Creativity Prize for Water.

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Posted in Extreme events

Vehicular decarbonisation – two new technologies to watch

Posted on November 2, 2016 by | 65 comments

by Rud Istvan

This post addresses issues related to  ‘vehicular decarbonization’. It is  an energy storage insider’s narrative of how tough a slog developing some of the requisite applied science technologies has been over the past decades. It is a saga of research twists and turns, abject failures, near misses, and ‘before its time’ inventions.

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Posted in Energy