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Senate Hearing: Data or Dogma

Posted on December 8, 2015 | 476 comments

by Judith Curry

The Senate Commerce Committee Hearing ‘Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate Over the Magnitude of the Human Impact on Earth’s Climate‘ is about to begin.

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Can Coal-Fired Plants be Re-Powered Today with Stored Energy from Wind and Solar?

Posted on December 6, 2015 | 232 comments

by Davis Swan

There is a consensus in many countries that burning coal to generate electricity is something that needs to be phased out as quickly as possible. The Clean Power Plan in the U.S. has that as one of its most likely outcomes and there have been explicit commitments to retire coal-fired generation plants by governments all over the world.

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Posted in Energy

Week in review – science and technology edition

Posted on December 5, 2015 | 102 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Bill Gail: Don’t let climate debate hinder the economy

Posted on December 4, 2015 | 155 comments

by Judith Curry

Nature’s deviations disrupt our lives and businesses more than we should accept. – Bill Gail

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Posted in Communication, Policy

Senate Hearing: Data or Dogma?

Posted on December 2, 2015 | 387 comments

by Judith Curry

Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earth’s Climate

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Posted in Policy

German Energiewende – Modern Miracle or Major Misstep

Posted on December 2, 2015 | 251 comments

by Davis Swan

There is an ongoing debate regarding the value and/or wisdom of the German Government’s implementation of an energy transformation – the Energiewende.

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Posted in Energy

How sensitive is global temperature to cumulative CO2 emissions?

Posted on November 30, 2015 | 436 comments

by Nic Lewis

The mean carbon cycle behaviour of CMIP5 ESMs and EMICs may be quite unrealistic.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Deep de-carbonisation of electricity grids

Posted on November 29, 2015 | 124 comments

by Peter Lang

J. P. Morgan recently published an excellent report ‘Deep de-carbonisation of electricity grids‘. Below are excerpts from the report and some comment added by me.

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Posted in Energy

Decision making under uncertainty – maximize expected social welfare

Posted on November 29, 2015 | 207 comments

by  -1=e^i pi

Expected social welfare maximization is where you try to obtain the set of parameters (such as climate change policies) that will maximize the expected value of a social welfare function.

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Posted in Policy

Week in review – science and technology edition

Posted on November 28, 2015 | 195 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Climate Heretic. Part II

Posted on November 26, 2015 | 420 comments

by Judith Curry

David Rose has published an interview with me in the Spectator.

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Posted in Skeptics

The rise and fall of Central England Temperature

Posted on November 25, 2015 | 119 comments

by Tony Brown

Over the last 15 years interesting things have been happening at CET-the world’s longest instrumental record, dating to 1660.

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Posted in Data and observations

Environmentalism versus science

Posted on November 24, 2015 | 292 comments

Words of wisdom from Hobart, Tasmania.

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Posted in Ethics

A buoy-only sea surface temperature record

Posted on November 22, 2015 | 492 comments

by Zeke Hausfather and Kevin Cowtan

A buoy-only sea surface temperature record supports NOAA’s adjustments.

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Posted in Oceans

Week in review – energy and policy edition

Posted on November 22, 2015 | 66 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Week in review – science edition

Posted on November 21, 2015 | 262 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Climate culture

Posted on November 20, 2015 | 274 comments

by Andy West

A frequent topic at Climate Etc. is the ‘consensus.’ An argument is presented here that the climate consensus is as much about culture as it is about climate science.

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Posted in Consensus, Sociology of science

Iatrogenic (?) climate policy

Posted on November 18, 2015 | 461 comments

by Judith Curry

So, is the climate ‘cure’ worse than the climate ‘disease’?

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Posted in Economics, Policy

400(?) years of warming

Posted on November 16, 2015 | 474 comments

by Judith Curry

So, exactly how long has it been warming?

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Posted in Attribution, Data and observations

Call for an ethical framework for climate services

Posted on November 12, 2015 | 241 comments

by Judith Curry

The urgent need for an ethical framework is heightened by the recognition that negative consequences can arise when climate services are not used to robustly translate science into the decision-making context or when services are deployed in ways that (implicitly or explicitly) bias an outcome.

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Posted in Ethics

Lomborg: Impact of Current Climate Proposals

Posted on November 9, 2015 | 276 comments

by Judith Curry

Current climate policy promises will do little to stabilize the climate and their impact will be undetectable for many decades. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Posted in Policy

Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Is Fossil Fuel Like Tobacco?

Posted on November 8, 2015 | 202 comments

by Lucas Bergkamp

At a Workshop in 2012, a group of scientists, lawyers and advocacy groups discussed what lessons could be learned from the tobacco litigation for launching successful climate change litigation against corporations.

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Posted in Policy

Hiatus controversy: show me the data

Posted on November 6, 2015 | 674 comments

by Judith Curry

The scientific and political controversies surrounding the hiatus have continued to heat up. Lets take a look at ALL the global temperature data sets.

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Posted in Data and observations

JC op ed: the politics surrounding global temperature data

Posted on November 5, 2015 | 381 comments

by Judith Curry

My op-ed in Fox News:  Is government tinkering with global warming data?

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381 Comments

Posted in Ethics, Politics

Lukewarming

Posted on November 5, 2015 | 199 comments

by Judith Curry

Two new books on lukewarming have recently been published.

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Posted in Attribution, Communication, Policy