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Week in review – science edition

Posted on November 27, 2020 | 270 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye these past 10 (!) weeks

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Biden administration

Posted on November 25, 2020 | 668 comments

by Judith Curry

I’ve received requests for a new politics discussion thread.

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Posted in Politics

Five rules for evidence communication

Posted on November 21, 2020 | 359 comments

by Judith Curry

“Avoid unwarranted certainty, neat narratives and partisan presentation; strive to inform, not persuade.”

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Posted in Communication, Uncertainty

Cultural motivations for wind and solar renewables deployment

Posted on November 19, 2020 | 290 comments

by Andy West

“For me the question now is, now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we going to keep letting them destroy it?”. – Michael Schellenberger Continue reading →

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Posted in Energy

Slower decay of landfalling Hurricanes in a warmer world — really?

Posted on November 17, 2020 | 62 comments

by Frank Bosse

A recent paper published in “Nature” made some excitement in the media, see here or here.

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Posted in Hurricanes

Disconnect in the relationship between GMST and ECS

Posted on November 11, 2020 | 142 comments

by Kenneth Fritsch

Abstract. An analysis is presented of  he disconnection between the CMIP5 and CMIP6 Historical and Future periods when considering the relationship of the individual model GMST changes and the climate sensitivity. I have included a simple model that can account for the period disconnection using the negative forcing of aerosol/cloud effects in the Historical period that is carried forward into the Future period.   I attribute some of the uncertainty in simulations of this simple model to endogenous model decision (selection) uncertainty that leads to variations in the changes of the negative forcing in the Historical period carried forward into the Future period.

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Posted in climate models, Sensitivity & feedbacks

U.S. election discussion thread

Posted on November 3, 2020 | 1,423 comments

by Judith Curry

No words.

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Posted in Hurricanes, Politics

Science and politics

Posted on October 26, 2020 | 632 comments

by Judith Curry

“I’m reaching out to scientists this week about the election. How do you feel about it? Which of the candidates has the best plan, for you, in science and technology?”

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Posted in Politics

Climate science and the Supreme Court

Posted on October 16, 2020 | 737 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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Posted in Politics

What the pandemic has taught us about science

Posted on October 10, 2020 | 285 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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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science, Uncertainty

How we fool ourselves

Posted on October 4, 2020 | 268 comments

by Judith Curry

Crowd sourcing examples of fallacious thinking from climate science.

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Posted in Sociology of science, Uncertainty

Politics discussion thread II

Posted on October 2, 2020 | 701 comments

by Judith Curry

Looks like we need a new thread on this.

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Posted in Politics

Week in review – science edition

Posted on September 17, 2020 | 129 comments

by Judith Curry

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

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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 | 228 comments

by Judith Curry

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

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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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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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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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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