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How we fool ourselves. Part II: Scientific consensus building

Posted on April 10, 2021 | 292 comments

by Judith Curry

“Like a magnetic field that pulls iron filings into alignment, a powerful cultural belief is aligning multiple sources of scientific bias in the same direction. – policy scientist Daniel Sarewitz

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Environmental Justice campaign to replace New York City peaking power plants

Posted on April 2, 2021 | 110 comments

by Roger Caiazza

Environmental justice organizations are currently a major driver of environmental regulation in New York. A new report “The Fossil Fuel End Game, A frontline vision to retire New York City’s peaker plants by 2030” illustrates the campaign strategy they are using to shut down peaking power plants in New York City. Unfortunately their claims are based more on emotion than fact.

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A pertinent climate question

Posted on March 28, 2021 | 116 comments

by Michel de Rougemont

Not so innocent as it looks, a pertinent question is asked by Judith Curry on Twitter:

How much of a change in cloudiness would it take to account for the 0.53 W/m² increase in TOA radiative forcing since 2003?
https://twitter.com/curryja/status/1375144537522204672

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

UK climate policy discussion thread

Posted on March 21, 2021 | 258 comments

by Judith Curry

I have been contacted by a UK politician about climate policy in the UK,

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Posted in Policy, Politics, Uncategorized

Climate adaptation sense. Part III: Dynamic Adaptation Policy Pathways

Posted on March 17, 2021 | 88 comments

by Judith Curry

Best practices in adapting to sea level rise use a framework suitable for decision making under deep uncertainty.

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Posted in Adaptation, Oceans, Uncertainty

Week in review – science edition

Posted on March 12, 2021 | 158 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye these past few weeks

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Climate adaptation follies. Part II: scenarios of future sea level rise

Posted on March 8, 2021 | 61 comments

by Judith Curry

How did the state of New Jersey come to adopt sea level rise projections for their adaptation planning that are more than twice as high as the IPCC’s values?

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Posted in Adaptation, Uncertainty

Climate adaptation follies. Part I: The New Jersey challenge

Posted on March 7, 2021 | 93 comments

by Judith Curry

New Jersey has a sea level rise problem. How should this be managed?

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Posted in Adaptation, Oceans

Canceling the AMO

Posted on March 6, 2021 | 140 comments

by Judith Curry

Conclusion from Michael Mann’s new paper: “We conclude that there is no compelling evidence for internal multidecadal oscillations in the climate system.”

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Posted in Causation, Oceans

Uncomfortable knowledge

Posted on March 3, 2021 | 197 comments

by Judith Curry

On the misuse of science and scientific authority.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science, Uncertainty

Week in review – TX edition

Posted on February 28, 2021 | 147 comments

by Judith Curry

A round up of some insightful articles on the TX blackout

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CO2 sensitivity: the polar solution

Posted on February 26, 2021 | 108 comments

by Alan Longhurst

Natural climate variability in the polar regions.

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Posted in Polar regions, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Assigning Blame for the Blackouts in Texas

Posted on February 18, 2021 | 553 comments

By Planning Engineer

The story from some media sources is that frozen wind turbines are responsible for the power shortfalls in Texas. Other media sources emphasize that fossil fuel resources should shoulder the blame because they have large cold induced outages as well and also some natural gas plants could not obtain fuel.

Extreme cold should be expected to cause significant outages of both renewable and fossil fuel based resources. Why would anyone expect that sufficient amounts of natural gas would be available and deliverable to supply much needed generation? Considering the extreme cold, nothing particularly surprising is happening within any resource class in Texas. The technologies and their performance were well within the expected bounds of what could have been foreseen for such weather conditions. While some degradation should be expected, what is happening in Texas is a departure from what they should be experiencing. Who or what then is responsible for the shocking consequences produced by Texas’s run in with this recent bout of extreme cold?

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Posted in Energy

Assessment of climate change risk to the insurance sector

Posted on February 15, 2021 | 86 comments

by Judith Curry

The insurance sector is abuzz with a new report from AIR Worldwide on the insurance risk from the impact of climate change on hurricanes. Insurance industry clients of my company, Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN), have requested a critique of this report.

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Posted in Hurricanes

A climate of dialogue

Posted on February 12, 2021 | 183 comments

by Judith Curry

A pacated dialogue between two serious thinkers who disagree about climate change.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Road to Climate Neutrality

Posted on February 8, 2021 | 191 comments

by Judith Curry

Spatial Requirements of Wind/Solar and Nuclear Energy and Their Respective Costs

“In addition to the energy sector, the climate debate also needs a transition. From ideology and wishful thinking, to facts, figures and rationality.”

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Posted in Energy, Policy

Interview: Climate Change – A Different Perspective with Judith Curry

Posted on January 30, 2021 | 374 comments

by Judith Curry

My recent interview on the Strong and Free podcast.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Week in review – science edition

Posted on January 24, 2021 | 284 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye over the past several weeks.

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The big ‘cancel’

Posted on January 12, 2021 | 1,204 comments

by Judith Curry

We need to allow all voices to be heard.

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Posted in Ethics, Politics

Biden Administration II

Posted on January 7, 2021 | 804 comments

by Judith Curry

Just as everyone was heaving a sigh of relief that 2020 is over, 2021 is providing some fresh craziness.

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804 Comments

Posted in Politics

Looking forward: new technologies in the 2020’s

Posted on January 2, 2021 | 368 comments

by Judith Curry

Looking ahead towards new energy technologies, plus my own saga and rationale for transitioning my personal power generation and consumption. Continue reading →

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Posted in Energy