Author Archives: curryja

Climate science and the Supreme Court

Posted on October 16, 2020 | 557 comments

by Judith Curry

An alternative assessment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s statements on climate change.

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557 Comments

Posted in Politics

What the pandemic has taught us about science

Posted on October 10, 2020 | 269 comments

The scientific method remains the best way to solve many problems, but bias, overconfidence and politics can sometimes lead scientists astray

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269 Comments

Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science, Uncertainty

How we fool ourselves

Posted on October 4, 2020 | 263 comments

by Judith Curry

Crowd sourcing examples of fallacious thinking from climate science.

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263 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science, Uncertainty

Politics discussion thread II

Posted on October 2, 2020 | 567 comments

by Judith Curry

Looks like we need a new thread on this.

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567 Comments

Posted in Politics

Week in review – science edition

Posted on September 17, 2020 | 128 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that have caught my eye this past 12(!) weeks.

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Posted in Week in review

FIRE

Posted on September 15, 2020 | 143 comments

by Judith Curry

Subtitle: our failure to live in harmony with nature.

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Posted in Extreme events

Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet.

Posted on September 8, 2020 | 227 comments

by Judith Curry

A thought-provoking article  from my new favorite blog, The Ethical Skeptic.

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227 Comments

Posted in Attribution, Causation, Ethics, Skeptics

Politics discussion thread

Posted on September 2, 2020 | 801 comments

by Judith Curry

It’s time for a politics thread, to deflect the political comments that are sneaking into the technical threads.

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New confirmation that climate models overstate atmospheric warming

Posted on August 25, 2020 | 148 comments

by Ross McKitrick

Two new peer-reviewed papers from independent teams confirm that climate models overstate atmospheric warming and the problem has gotten worse over time, not better.

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Posted in climate models

Cancel culture discussion thread II

Posted on August 7, 2020 | 236 comments

by Judith Curry

Some additional articles and events to discuss.

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Posted in Uncategorized

Apocalypse Never and False Alarm

Posted on July 24, 2020 | 125 comments

by Judith Curry

Two important new books to discuss.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Cancel culture discussion thread

Posted on July 14, 2020 | 851 comments

by Judith Curry

A change of topic.

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851 Comments

Posted in Communication, Ethics

Covid discussion thread: Part X

Posted on July 6, 2020 | 482 comments

by Judith Curry

Latest roundup of interesting articles.  I’m running out of steam on this topic, here are some random articles I’ve flagged over the last few weeks.

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482 Comments

Posted in Week in review

Mass spectrometry and climate science. Part II

Posted on June 25, 2020 | 9 comments

by Roland Hirsch

New technologies in mass spectrometry are advancing research in climate science

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Posted in Data and observations

Week in review – science edition

Posted on June 22, 2020 | 109 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye the past 7(!) weeks.

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Posted in Week in review

Structural errors in global climate models

Posted on June 20, 2020 | 99 comments

by Gerald Browning

Climate model sensitivity to CO2 is heavily dependent on artificial parameterizations (e.g. clouds, convection) that are implemented in global climate models that utilize  the wrong atmospheric dynamical system and excessive dissipation.

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Posted in climate models

Mass spectrometry and climate science. Part I: Determining past climates

Posted on June 16, 2020 | 28 comments

by Roland Hirsch

Mass spectrometry is essential for research in climate science.

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28 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized

Covid discussion thread: Part IX

Posted on June 14, 2020 | 259 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting articles that I’ve spotted recently.

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259 Comments

Posted in Week in review

Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Oceans

Posted on June 9, 2020 | 69 comments

by Judith Curry

Peter Webster’s magnum opus is now published: Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Oceans.

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Posted in Oceans

Covid discussion thread: Part VIII

Posted on June 5, 2020 | 365 comments

by Judith Curry

Interesting papers that I’ve recently spotted

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365 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized

COVID-19 discussion thread VII

Posted on May 19, 2020 | 567 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting papers that I’ve spotted over the past week.

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567 Comments

Posted in Week in review

Culturally-determined response to climate change: Part III

Posted on May 16, 2020 | 55 comments

by Andy West

Climate change affirmative responses to all survey questions are culturally determined, and across National Publics related to religiousity.  Cultural attitudes inappropriately push climate policy.

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55 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

Greening the planet and slouching towards Paris?

Posted on May 14, 2020 | 117 comments

by Patrick J. Michaels

A new paper finds higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations.  The paper predicts that the Earth is going to gain nearly three times as much green matter as was predicted by the IPCC AR5.

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117 Comments

Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

COVID discussion thread VI

Posted on May 6, 2020 | 449 comments

by Judith Curry

A roundup of interesting articles on COVID-19.

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449 Comments

Posted in Week in review

Week in review – climate science edition

Posted on May 2, 2020 | 117 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week — climate science & policy

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117 Comments

Posted in Week in review