Monthly Archives: January 2017

Ozone attainmnent

Posted on January 29, 2017 by | 56 comments

by Roger Caiazza

At this time there is quite a bit of noise about potential problems if Scott Pruitt is confirmed to head EPA because he would “hamstring EPA’s authority to set nationwide environmental standards”.

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Posted in Policy

The ‘threat’ of climate change

Posted on January 29, 2017 by | 590 comments

by Judith Curry

A major disconnect in the discourse surrounding climate change is interpretation of the ‘threat’ of climate change.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Uncertainty

A case study of the Northern Colorado Front Range temperature history

Posted on January 20, 2017 by | 127 comments

by Monte Naylor

A comparison of NOAA-computed temperature trends with the “raw” historical temperature data.

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Posted in Data and observations

Rethinking the Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on January 17, 2017 by | 203 comments

by Judith Curry

The Social Cost of Carbon is emerging as a major source of contention in the Trump Administration.

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Posted in Economics, Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Beyond Physics: Advanced Biology and Climate Change

Posted on January 15, 2017 by | 286 comments

by Clive Hambler

Reflections on the stabilization of Earth’s climate by life.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Skin in the game

Posted on January 9, 2017 by | 485 comments

by Judith Curry

Some reflections on my transition from academic climate research to private sector weather forecasting and regional climate change assessments.

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Posted in Energy, Sociology of science

Uncertainties in sea surface temperatures

Posted on January 4, 2017 by | 295 comments

by Judith Curry

Two new papers have focused on the quality, uncertainties and  interpretation of global sea surface temperature data.

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Posted in Data and observations, Oceans

JC in transition

Posted on January 3, 2017 by | 330 comments

by Judith Curry

Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech.

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Posted in Sociology of science

The two-faced ‘reality’ of a clean energy future

Posted on January 2, 2017 by | 148 comments

by Judith Curry

Michael Liebrich has written an extremely insightful (not to mention clever) article  entitled It’s a new year and time to face reality.

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Posted in Energy