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

Posted on January 2, 2017 | 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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148 Comments

Posted in Energy

Discussion thread – Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on December 30, 2016 | 242 comments

by David Wojick

The Social Cost of Carbon is absurd but entrenched.

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242 Comments

Posted in Policy

Internal climate variability as a confounding factor in climate sensitivity estimates

Posted on December 29, 2016 | 333 comments

by Frank Bosse

Towards eliminating multi-decadal natural oscillations in determination of the Transient Climate Response (TCR) to CO2.
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333 Comments

Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Merry Xmas

Posted on December 24, 2016 | 91 comments

by Judith Curry

My very best wishes to all during the holiday season, whatever you might be celebrating.

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Posted in Uncategorized

The tragedy of the horizon

Posted on December 21, 2016 | 290 comments

by Judith Curry

Too rapid a movement towards a low-carbon economy could materially damage financial stability: a climate Minsky moment — Mark Carney

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290 Comments

Posted in Policy

King Canute versus the climate planners

Posted on December 20, 2016 | 225 comments

by Judith Curry

On sea level rise, President Obama and King Canute.

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225 Comments

Posted in Policy

On the Decrease of Hot Days in the US

Posted on December 16, 2016 | 123 comments

by Turbulent Eddie

Adjusted USHCN data indicate a decrease in CONUS hot days TMAX >= 100°F

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123 Comments

Posted in Data and observations

The latest climate ‘conspiracy theory’

Posted on December 15, 2016 | 464 comments

by Judith Curry

Guess who the new climate ‘conspiracy theorists’ are?

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464 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

Shifting sands of the climate debate

Posted on December 12, 2016 | 462 comments

by Judith Curry

Insiders are out; and outsiders are becoming the insiders.

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462 Comments

Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Climate Heretic: to be or not to be?

Posted on December 5, 2016 | 855 comments

by Judith Curry

On experts, lukewarmers, and unhappy heretics.

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855 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

‘Truthiness’ and ‘factiness’ in politicized scientific debates

Posted on December 3, 2016 | 355 comments

by Judith Curry

The trappings of science can be decoupled from the actual rigor of science.

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355 Comments

Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Perversions of open-minded thinking on climate change

Posted on December 1, 2016 | 342 comments

by Kip Hansen

Climate skepticism: a ‘perverse’ effect of ‘actively open-minded thinking’.

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342 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

Prospects for a Prolonged Slowdown in Global Warming in the Early 21st Century

Posted on November 30, 2016 | 274 comments

by Nic Lewis

[W]e estimate that the warming slowdown (< 0.1 K/decade trend beginning in 1998) could persist, due to internal variability cooling, through 2020, 2025 or 2030 with probabilities 16%, 11%, and 6%, respectively. – Knutson et al.

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274 Comments

Posted in Attribution, climate models

The real war on science

Posted on November 21, 2016 | 596 comments

by Judith Curry

The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress. – John Tierney

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596 Comments

Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Carbon is not the enemy

Posted on November 19, 2016 | 138 comments

by Judith Curry

Design with the natural cycle in mind to ensure that carbon ends up in the right places. — William McDonough

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138 Comments

Posted in Adaptation

Climate models for lawyers

Posted on November 12, 2016 | 315 comments

by Judith Curry

I have been asked to write an Expert Report on climate models.

***SEE UPDATE

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315 Comments

Posted in climate models

Post-mortem on the forecasts of Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew

Posted on November 7, 2016 | 27 comments

by Judith Curry

Reflections on forecasting hurricanes in light of U.S. landfalling Hurricanes Hermine and Matthew, highlighting the complexities of forecast ensemble interpretation.

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27 Comments

Posted in Extreme events, Hurricanes

Climate modelers open up their black boxes to scrutiny

Posted on November 5, 2016 | 220 comments

by Judith Curry

Paul Voosen has written a remarkable article in Science about climate model tuning.

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220 Comments

Posted in climate models

International Water Prize

Posted on November 2, 2016 | 62 comments

by Judith Curry

Peter Webster has been awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Creativity Prize for Water.

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62 Comments

Posted in Extreme events

Vehicular decarbonisation – two new technologies to watch

Posted on November 2, 2016 | 65 comments

by Rud Istvan

This post addresses issues related to  ‘vehicular decarbonization’. It is  an energy storage insider’s narrative of how tough a slog developing some of the requisite applied science technologies has been over the past decades. It is a saga of research twists and turns, abject failures, near misses, and ‘before its time’ inventions.

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65 Comments

Posted in Energy

Advocacy research, incentives and the practice of science

Posted on October 27, 2016 | 98 comments

by Judith Curry

There is a problem with the practice of science. Because of poor scientific practices, and improper incentives, few papers with useful scientific findings are published in leading journals. The problem appears to be growing due to funding for advocacy research.

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98 Comments

Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Tamino’s adjusted temperature records and the TCR

Posted on October 26, 2016 | 215 comments

by Frank Bosse

Separating out the impacts of internal variability on evaluations of TCR.

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215 Comments

Posted in Data and observations, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Politics and the Changing Norms of Science

Posted on October 25, 2016 | 134 comments

by Lucas Bergkamp

 “The politician is sometimes tempted to encroach on the normal territory of the scientific estate. In such issues the problem is less often whether politics will presume to dictate to science than it is how much politics is to be influenced by the new findings of science.”[1]

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134 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

Nature Unbound I: The Glacial Cycle

Posted on October 24, 2016 | 269 comments

by Javier

Insights into the debate on whether the Holocene will be long or short.

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269 Comments

Posted in Attribution

Determinism and predictability

Posted on October 16, 2016 | 408 comments

by Tomas Milanovic

There are few scientific concepts that are more often misunderstood in blog debates than Determinism and Predictability. For many commenters, these two concepts are considered to be in fact equivalent, which leads to faulty or irrelevant arguments.

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408 Comments

Posted in climate models