Author Archives: curryja

Bjorn Stevens in the cross-fire

Posted on April 22, 2015 | 516 comments

by Judith Curry

Bjorn Stevens has published two interesting and important papers in the last few weeks, which have placed him squarely in the cross-fire of both the scientific and public debates on climate change.

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Posted in Communication, Sensitivity & feedbacks

What should renewables pay for grid service?

Posted on April 21, 2015 | 170 comments

by Planning Engineer

There is a lot of public debate around the rates utilities charge solar customers, but very little of it shows an awareness of the embedded technical and philosophical issues.

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Posted in Energy

Week in review – politics and policy edition

Posted on April 19, 2015 | 165 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week

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Posted in Week in review

Week in review – science edition

Posted on April 18, 2015 | 351 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Lafayette Climate Debates

Posted on April 17, 2015 | 193 comments

by Judith Curry

Resolved: That all states have an obligation to anticipate, prevent and minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects.

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Posted in Policy

Hearing: President’s UN climate pledge

Posted on April 15, 2015 | 953 comments

by Judith Curry

The House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology Hearing on the President’s UN Climate Pledge has now concluded.

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Posted in Policy

House Hearing scheduled on President’s U.N. climate pledge

Posted on April 13, 2015 | 198 comments

by Judith Curry

I will be testifying before the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology on April 15.

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Posted in Policy

Week in review – politics and policy edition

Posted on April 12, 2015 | 435 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Week in review – science and technology edition

Posted on April 10, 2015 | 192 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Climate change availability cascade

Posted on April 9, 2015 | 408 comments

by Judith Curry

Politicians, activists and journalists have stimulated an ‘availability cascade’ [link] to support alarm about human-caused climate change.

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Are human influences on the climate really small?

Posted on April 8, 2015 | 661 comments

by Steven E. Koonin

My Wall Street Journal article of 9/20/14, Climate Science is Not Settled , contains the paragraph

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Posted in Greenhouse effect

Draft APS Statement on Climate Change

Posted on April 7, 2015 | 496 comments

by Judith Curry

The American Physical Society has released its draft Statement on Climate Change to the APS membership.

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Posted in Policy

Climate sensitivity: Ringberg edition

Posted on April 5, 2015 | 262 comments

by Judith Curry

Presentations are now available  from the WCRP Workshop on Earth’s Climate Sensitivity.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Road to Paris: Tracking climate pledges

Posted on April 1, 2015 | 368 comments

by Judith Curry

I’m working to wrap my head around the emerging UNFCCC pledges to cut carbon emissions, in preparation for the Paris meeting next December.  Here’s what I’m reading.

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Posted in Energy, Policy, Politics

Criticism, tolerance and changing your mind

Posted on March 31, 2015 | 589 comments

by Judith Curry

“That’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.” – Malcolm Gladwell

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Posted in Uncategorized

Is climate change a ‘ruin’ problem?

Posted on March 30, 2015 | 393 comments

by Judith Curry

So, is climate change a local or global threat?  Are we risking global ruin?

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Posted in Policy

Christopher Essex on suppressing scientific inquiry

Posted on March 26, 2015 | 624 comments

by Judith Curry

As the issue of bias in climate science heats up, Christopher Essex has written the best defense of freedom of scientific enquiry that I’ve seen emerge from the Grijalva inquisition.

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Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science

Whats up with the Atlantic?

Posted on March 25, 2015 | 267 comments

by Judith Curry

The Washington Post has this dramatic headline:  Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the ocean with potentially dire consequences.

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Posted in Attribution, Polar regions

The stupid party

Posted on March 24, 2015 | 383 comments

by Judith Curry

The emergence of candidates for U.S. President in the 2016 election is raising some interesting issues about climate change.

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Posted in Politics

Climate sensitivity: lopping off the fat tail

Posted on March 23, 2015 | 272 comments

by Judith Curry

Interest is running high this week on the topic of climate sensitivity.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Taking Melbourne’s temperature

Posted on March 22, 2015 | 61 comments

by Tom Quirke

The raw Melbourne temperature records of the Bureau of Meteorology are compared to the ACORN-Sat values. The ACORN-Sat adjustments are evaluated. This analysis shows evidence for a strong urban heat island effect.

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Posted in Data and observations

Blog discussions

Posted on March 22, 2015 | 396 comments

by Judith Curry

People seem to want to discuss blog discussions/comments, so here’s a thread to deflect such conversation from other threads.

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Posted in Communication

Implications of lower aerosol forcing for climate sensitivity

Posted on March 19, 2015 | 191 comments

by Nic Lewis

A new paper on aerosol radiative forcing has important implications for estimates of climate sensitivity.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

On the social contract between science and society

Posted on March 18, 2015 | 309 comments

by Judith Curry

Our geosciences community too often gives the impression that we care primarily about more funding for our research. Such overt self-interest poses risks to our community and to society. – Bill Hooke

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Posted in Sociology of science

Temperature adjustments in Australia

Posted on March 17, 2015 | 252 comments

by Euan Mearns

UK blogger Paul Homewood and Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker have managed to stir public interest in the veracity of adjustments made to temperature records by the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN).

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Posted in Data and observations