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JC navigates the new media

by Judith Curry With the new media, it’s astonishing  how much trouble a mild-mannered grandmother speaking common sense about climate change can cause without leaving her home.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

State of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the NE U.S.

by Roger Caiazza A case study on the challenges of controlling CO2 emissions.

Climate Uncertainty and Risk: in press

by Judith Curry My book Climate Uncertainty and Risk has now been accepted for publication, following peer review and submission of my revised manuscript.

Resplandy et al. Part 5: Final outcome

By Nic Lewis The editors of Nature have retracted the Resplandy et al. paper.

Alarming deterioration of US National Weather Service tornado warnings

by Mike Smith In spite of better meteorological technology than ever and more raw scientific knowledge about storms, we are seeing a serious regression in a vital government program: the National Weather Service’s tornado warning program.

JC’s expert report

by Judith Curry Here is the text of the expert report on Mann v. Simberg/Steyn in 2020 that I prepared at the request of Mark Steyn’s counsel.

Alan Longhurst 1925-2023: oceanographer and climate skeptic

by Javier Vinós Alan Longhurst died last December 7th in the hospital of Figeac in Occitanie (France), where he had been admitted a few days earlier following a fall in nearby Cajarc, the small town where he lived. Alan has … Continue reading

Controversy surrounding the Sun’s role in climate change

by Dr. Willie Soon, Dr. Ronan Connolly & Dr. Michael Connolly Gavin Schmidt at realclimate.org attempts to dismiss our recent papers, including pseudo-scientific takedowns.  This post takes a deep dive into the controversies.

Senate Budget Committee Hearing: JC responds

by Judith Curry Last week’s Hearing was a sad example of what passes for debate and deliberations by the U.S. Senate.  In any event, it provides an interesting case study of why the U.S. cannot bridge the partisan divide and … Continue reading

Climate science’s ‘masking bias’ problem

by Judith Curry How valid conclusions often lay hidden within research reports, masked by plausible but unjustified conclusions reached in those reports.  And how the IPCC institutionalizes such masking errors in climate science.

Climate scientists’ motivated reasoning

by Judith Curry Insights into the motivated reasoning of climate scientists, including my own efforts to sort out my own biases and motivated reasoning following publication of the Webster et al. (2005) paper

The relative infectivity of the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2

By Nic Lewis Key points A new variant, B.1.1.7, of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has recently spread rapidly in England The public health agency’s best estimate of B.1.1.7’s weekly growth rate advantage is 1.51x They mis-convert this in a reproduction number … Continue reading

Heat waves and hot air

by Judith Curry Heat waves are the new polar bears, stoking alarm about climate change.  Climate scientists addressing this in the media are using misleading and/or inadequate approaches.  How should we approach assessing whether and how much manmade global warming … Continue reading

National Climate Assessment: A crisis of epistemic overconfidence

by Judith Curry “You can say I don’t believe in gravity. But if you step off the cliff you are going down. So we can say I don’t believe climate is changing, but it is based on science.” – Katherine … Continue reading

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – climate adaptation edition

by Judith Curry Something a bit different this week.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – energy, water and food

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – science edition

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week

Week in review – science, technology, policy research

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.

Week in review – science and policy research

by Judith Curry A few things that caught my eye this past week.