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Energy security is complicated, and multi-dimensional. It goes beyond over-simplified notions of energy self-sufficiency or energy independence. It’s about where our energy comes from and its the cost, reliability, sustainability, and scale of our energy use. Technical, economic, geopolitical and other factors all play a role, and one needs to understand how they interact. Energy security is not just a matter of energy; it’s about how energy affects national security.

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Posted in Energy

AGU, Exxon and the corporate funding dilemma

Posted on February 29, 2016 | 236 comments

by Judith Curry

. . . to assess whether our partner/sponsor statements are in conflict with our position statements and accepted scientific consensus. – Margaret Leinen, AGU President

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Posted in Ethics

Nature: Making sense of the early 2000’s warming slowdown

Posted on February 24, 2016 | 369 comments

by Judith Curry

It has been claimed that the early-2000s global warming slowdown or hiatus, characterized by a reduced rate of global surface warming, has been overstated, lacks sound scientific basis, or is unsupported by observations. The evidence presented here contradicts these claims. – Fyfe et al.

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Posted in Attribution

Is sea level rise accelerating?

Posted on February 23, 2016 | 288 comments

by Judith Curry

Estimates of the rate of sea level rise are diverging.

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Posted in Oceans

Arctic winter sea ice puzzle

Posted on February 22, 2016 | 320 comments

by Judith Curry

Arctic sea ice extent has been anomalously low this winter.

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Posted in Polar regions

Walking the climate talk

Posted on February 21, 2016 | 324 comments

by Judith Curry

Their [climate scientists] actions may have limited discernible influence in terms of ‘bending the curve’ on emissions, but their efforts to ‘walk the talk’ have tremendous symbolic value – Max Boykoff

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Posted in Ethics

New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision and Environmental Control Initiatives

Posted on February 18, 2016 | 158 comments

.by Roger Caiazza

The excellent series of posts on energy planning by Planning Engineer and Rud Istavan, a similar series at the Science of Doom and a recent post by Peter Lang all outline the difficulties implementing renewable energy and other components of the so-called energy system of the future.

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Posted in Energy, Policy

Some realism about technological fixes

Posted on February 16, 2016 | 320 comments

by Judith Curry

Not all problems will yield to technology. Deciding which will and which won’t should be central to setting innovation policy, say Daniel Sarewitz and Richard Nelson.

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Posted in Energy, Policy

Asymmetry and the power of the 3%

Posted on February 14, 2016 | 270 comments

by Judith Curry

The minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly. – Nassim Taleb

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Posted in Skeptics

Opinion: Don’t go nuclear on climate change just yet

Posted on February 11, 2016 | 214 comments

by Yousaf Butt

Current nuclear technology is not a sensible solution to the climate change challenge – but research on “new-nuclear” and renewables infrastructure should be aggressively pursued.

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Posted in Energy

Are land + sea temperature averages meaningful?

Posted on February 10, 2016 | 371 comments

by Greg Goodman

Several of the major datasets that claim to represent “global average surface temperature” are directly or effectively averaging land air temperatures with sea surface temperatures.

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Posted in Data and observations, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Assessing U.S. temperature adjustments using the Climate Reference Network

Posted on February 9, 2016 | 244 comments

by Zeke Hausfather

Measuring temperatures in the U.S. no easy task. While we have mostly volunteer-run weather station data from across the country going back to the late 1800s, these weather stations were never set up to consistently monitor long-term changes to the climate.

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Posted in Data and observations

Flint water crisis: profiles in scientific courage

Posted on February 8, 2016 | 277 comments

by Judith Curry

[T]the systems built to support scientists do not reward moral courage and the university pipeline contains toxins of its own — which, if ignored, will corrode public faith in science. – Marc Edwards

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Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science

(Mis) communicating science in public controversies

Posted on February 7, 2016 | 330 comments

by Judith Curry

Bringing uncertainty to the public debate or putting the credibility of climate science at risk matters less to them than interest groups misusing or the public misinterpreting their results. – Senja Post

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Posted in Communication, Uncertainty

George Washington’s winters

Posted on February 5, 2016 | 232 comments

by Judith Curry

Frozen rivers, knee-deep snows, sleet, frigid temperatures, and other winter miseries helped shape the story of George Washington’s life.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, History

Now that climate science is ‘settled’ . . .

Posted on February 4, 2016 | 209 comments

by Judith Curry

Climate science is being gutted in Australia.

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Posted in Policy

Paris climate promise: a bad deal for America?

Posted on February 3, 2016 | 162 comments

by Judith Curry

The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a Hearing yesterday — Paris Climate Promise: A Bad Deal for America.

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Posted in Policy

Discussion: can we hit the ‘restart’ button?

Posted on February 2, 2016 | 374 comments

by Kip Hansen

Some problems require a restart.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Violating the norms and ethos of science

Posted on January 31, 2016 | 419 comments

by Judith Curry

Don’t let transparency damage science. – Stephan Lewandowsky & Dorothy Bishop

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Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science

Insights from Karl Popper: how to open the deadlocked climate debate

Posted on January 28, 2016 | 654 comments

by Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website.

Many factors have frozen the public policy debate on climate change, but none more important than the disinterest of both sides in tests that might provide better evidence — and perhaps restart the discussion. Even worse, too little thought has been given to the criteria for validating climate science theories (aka their paradigm) and the models build upon them.

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Posted in Attribution, Scientific method

On the likelihood of recent record warmth

Posted on January 26, 2016 | 192 comments

by Judith Curry

[O]ur results suggest that the recent record temperature years are are roughly 600 to 130,000 times more likely to have occurred under conditions of anthropogenic than in its absence. – Mann et al.

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Posted in Attribution, climate models

Huge efficacy of land use forcing in one GISS-E2-R simulation: is an ocean model error involved?

Posted on January 25, 2016 | 137 comments

by Nic Lewis

In a recent article here, which summarised a longer piece at ClimateAudit, I discussed the December 2015 Marvel et al.[1] paper, which contends that estimates of the transient climate response (TCR) and equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) derived from recent observations of changes in global mean surface temperature (GMST) are biased low.

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Posted in climate models, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Undersea volcanoes may be impacting long-term climate change

Posted on January 24, 2016 | 380 comments

by Alan Longhurst

I think this paper on on ocean tides, sea-floor volcanoes and Milankevitch cycles is a game changer.

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Posted in Oceans

Author Archives: curryja

U.S. presidential discussion thread: Part II

End of the satellite data warming pause?

What is Energy Security? Definitions and Scenarios

AGU, Exxon and the corporate funding dilemma

Nature: Making sense of the early 2000’s warming slowdown

Is sea level rise accelerating?

Arctic winter sea ice puzzle

Walking the climate talk

New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision and Environmental Control Initiatives

Some realism about technological fixes

Asymmetry and the power of the 3%

Opinion: Don’t go nuclear on climate change just yet

Are land + sea temperature averages meaningful?

Assessing U.S. temperature adjustments using the Climate Reference Network

Flint water crisis: profiles in scientific courage

(Mis) communicating science in public controversies

George Washington’s winters

Now that climate science is ‘settled’ . . .

Paris climate promise: a bad deal for America?

Discussion: can we hit the ‘restart’ button?

Violating the norms and ethos of science

Insights from Karl Popper: how to open the deadlocked climate debate

On the likelihood of recent record warmth

Huge efficacy of land use forcing in one GISS-E2-R simulation: is an ocean model error involved?

Undersea volcanoes may be impacting long-term climate change

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