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End of climate exceptionalism

Posted on April 4, 2014 | 476 comments

by Judith Curry

A new report from the IPCC implies that “climate exceptionalism”, the notion that global warming is a problem like no other, is coming to an end. – Economist

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Evidence of absence versus absence of evidence

Posted on April 1, 2014 | 479 comments

By Judith Curry

Does global warming make extreme weather events worse?

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Posted in Attribution, Scientific method

IPCC AR5 WG2 Report – draft SPM

Posted on March 30, 2014 | 790 comments

by Judith Curry

The WG2 Report will be officially released on Monday. Here is what people are saying about a leaked version of the Summary for Policy Makers.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Inconvenient truth of carbon offsets

Posted on March 28, 2014 | 289 comments

by Judith Curry

Kevin Anderson explains why he refused to purchase a carbon offset, and why you should steer clear of them too.

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Posted in Policy

Trial of the century?

Posted on March 25, 2014 | 550 comments

BBC Newshour: Judith Curry and Bob Ward debate Steyn versus Mann

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Posted in Communication, Ethics

EconTalk: Christy and Emanuel

Posted on March 24, 2014 | 235 comments

by Judith Curry

John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about climate change.

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More scientific mavericks needed

Posted on March 23, 2014 | 448 comments

by Judith Curry

Mavericks once played an essential role in research. Indeed, their work defined the 20th century.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Growth versus sustainability

Posted on March 21, 2014 | 279 comments

by Judith Curry

Is economic growth sustainable? Is it desirable?

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Nate Silvers’ 538: inconvenient statistics

Posted on March 20, 2014 | 215 comments

by Judith Curry

If Silver’s data-drive approach gets in the way of your political aims, so much the better. – Michael Brendan Dougherty

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UK-US Workshop Part V: Broadening the portfolio of climate information

Posted on March 19, 2014 | 116 comments

by Judith Curry

This post discusses Workshop presentations on broadening the portfolio of climate information for use in regional adaptation decisions.

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AAAS: What we know

Posted on March 18, 2014 | 397 comments

by Judith Curry

[W]e present key messages for every American about climate change. – AAAS

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Simplicity amidst complexity (?)

Posted on March 17, 2014 | 432 comments

by Judith Curry

Isaac Held’s new article in Science raises some interesting questions.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Bonfire of insanity

Posted on March 16, 2014 | 383 comments

by Judith Curry

Biomass pellets transported from North Carolina, U.S. are shipped 3800 miles to the UK and burned in Drax power station. Drax is switching to pellets as it is deemed ‘carbon neutral’, even though it belches out more CO2 than coal. – from David Rose

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The Art of Science Advice to Government

Posted on March 12, 2014 | 471 comments

by Judith Curry

Peter Gluckman, New Zealand’s chief science adviser, offers his ten principles for building trust, influence, engagement and independence.

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Posted in Policy

California drought in context

Posted on March 10, 2014 | 490 comments

by Judith Curry

A changing climate means that weather-related disasters like droughts, wildfires, storms [and] floods are potentially going to be costlier and they’re going to be harsher. – President Obama

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Posted in Uncategorized

Positioning skeptics

Posted on March 9, 2014 | 270 comments

by Judith Curry

What use is science to society, if its advocates are not brave enough to point out the nonsense that is produced in the name of the scientific consensus? – Ben Pile

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Posted in Skeptics

Climate sensitivity: technical discussion thread

Posted on March 6, 2014 | 487 comments

by Judith Curry

The Lewis and Crok paper is stimulating much discussion; unfortunately little of it is technical. Lets devote a thread to technical discussion on the issues the raise.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Lewis and Crok: Climate less sensitive to CO2 than models suggest

Posted on March 5, 2014 | 474 comments

by Judith Curry

Nic Lewis and Marcel Crok have published a new report on climate sensitivity.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Causes and implications of the pause

Posted on March 4, 2014 | 432 comments

by Judith A. Curry

My invited talk at the American Physical Society Meeting in Denver.

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Posted in Attribution

Habits of a complex mind

Posted on March 2, 2014 | 510 comments

by Judith Curry

How to go from reductionist thinking to action based complexity research.

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Posted in Scientific method

NAS/RS Report on Climate Change: Evidence and Causes

Posted on February 27, 2014 | 543 comments

by Judith Curry

Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. It is now more certain than ever, based on many lines of evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate. – Royal Society

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Posted in Consensus

Berkeley Earth Global

Posted on February 25, 2014 | 730 comments

by Steve Mosher

We’ve completed the first draft of our global monthly product.

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Posted in Data and observations

Steyn et al. versus Mann

Posted on February 22, 2014 | 1,142 comments

by Judith Curry

Some significant developments in various lawsuits involving Michael Mann

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1,142 Comments

Posted in Skeptics

APS reviews its Climate Change Statement

Posted on February 19, 2014 | 539 comments

by Judith Curry

The American Physical Society (APS) is in the process of reviewing its 2007 Climate Change Statement. The process itself is remarkable, and I’ve been privileged to participate in the process.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science