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UK-US Workshop Part IV: Limits of climate models for adaptation decision making

Posted on February 18, 2014 | 157 comments

by Judith Curry

This post discusses Workshop presentations on the utility of climate models for regional adaptation decisions.

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Posted in Adaptation, climate models

John Kerry’s remarks on climate change

Posted on February 17, 2014 | 581 comments

by Judith Curry

The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand. We don’t have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.  And in a sense, climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. – John Kerry

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Week in review

Posted on February 15, 2014 | 690 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Uncategorized

UK-US Workshop Part III: Strategies for robust decision making for climate adaptation

Posted on February 14, 2014 | 136 comments

by Judith Curry

This post discusses Workshop presentations on methodologies and application examples of decision analytical strategies to support robust decision making on climate adaptation.

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Posted in Adaptation

Magical theories

Posted on February 13, 2014 | 531 comments

by Judith Curry

[W]e have a field of sort-of-science in which hypotheses are treated as facts because they’re too hard or expensive to test, and there are so many hypotheses that what journalists like to call “leading authorities” disagree with one another daily. – Gary Taubes

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Posted in Scientific method

UK-US Workshop Part II: Perspectives from the private sector on climate adaptation

Posted on February 12, 2014 | 130 comments

by Judith Curry

Perspectives on climate change adaptation from Coca Cola, SwissRe, and Acclimatise.

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Posted in Adaptation

UK floods in context

Posted on February 11, 2014 | 358 comments

by Judith Curry

“If we look at the broader base of evidence then we see things that support the premise that climate change has been making a contribution.” – Dame Julia Slingo

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Posted in Extreme events

UK-US Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions

Posted on February 10, 2014 | 237 comments

by Judith Curry

Last week, I was privileged to host the UK-US Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions.

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Posted in Adaptation

Week in review

Posted on February 8, 2014 | 788 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Livestock’s long shadow

Posted on February 6, 2014 | 229 comments

by Judith Curry

In all, livestock farming produces 8-18% of greenhouse-gas emissions. It is the main contributor to the build-up of nitrogen and phosphorus in the world’s soils, producing too much ammonia (which is caustic), nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas) and dead zones in oceans (the result of excess phosphorus). – The Economist

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Why is there so much Antarctic sea ice?

Posted on February 3, 2014 | 779 comments

by Judith Curry

“It is very likely that the annual Antarctic sea ice extent increased at a rate of between 1.2 and 1.8% per decade between 1979 and 2012.” –  IPCC AR5 

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Posted in Polar regions

What scientific ideas are ready for retirement?

Posted on February 2, 2014 | 383 comments

by Judith Curry

So, what scientific idea do YOU think is ready for retirement?

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Posted in Scientific method

Atlanta’s 2″ catastrophic snowfall

Posted on January 30, 2014 | 398 comments

by Judith Curry

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Posted in Communication, Policy

The Big Question

Posted on January 29, 2014 | 556 comments

by Dagfinn Reiersøl

The Big Question in the climate change debate, as traditionally and conventionally posed, is: “is global warming caused by humans?”

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Posted in Attribution

UK Parliamentary Hearing on the IPCC

Posted on January 28, 2014 | 474 comments

by Judith Curry

A fascinating hearing on the IPCC was held today by the UK Parliament Energy and Climate Climate Change Committee.

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Posted in IPCC

Early 20th century Arctic warming

Posted on January 27, 2014 | 508 comments

by Judith Curry

“Arctic temperature anomalies in the 1930s were apparently as large as those in the 1990s and 2000s. There is still considerable discussion of the ultimate causes of the warm temperature anomalies that occurred in the Arctic in the 1920s and 1930s.” – IPCC AR5 Chapter 10

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Posted in Polar regions

Mann versus Steyn

Posted on January 26, 2014 | 541 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting developments and rhetoric in the Mann versus Steyn lawsuit.

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Posted in Ethics

Death(?) of expertise

Posted on January 25, 2014 | 629 comments

by Judith Curry

I fear we are witnessing the “death of expertise”: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those of any achievement in an area and those with none at all. – Tom Nicholls

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Posted in Sociology of science

The logic(?) of the IPCC’s attribution statement

Posted on January 23, 2014 | 600 comments

by Judith Curry

How can the IPCC increase their confidence in anthropogenic global warming at the same time their model projections are diverging farther and farther from reality? – John Nielsen-Gammon

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Posted in Attribution

Ocean heat content uncertainties

Posted on January 21, 2014 | 616 comments

by Judith Curry

Central to arguments related to the hiatus and the ‘missing heat’ is the assertion that unusual amounts of heat are being stored in the deep ocean, and that this heat will eventually reappear at the surface.  Exactly how good is the ocean heat content data on which this argument is based?

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Posted in Data and observations

The case of the missing heat

Posted on January 20, 2014 | 793 comments

by Judith Curry

Sixteen years into the mysterious ‘global-warming hiatus’, scientists are piecing together an explanation. – Jeff Tollefson

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Posted in Attribution

Mann on advocacy and responsibility

Posted on January 18, 2014 | 672 comments

by Judith Curry

 “If you see something, say something.”

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Posted in Ethics

Senate EPW Hearing on the President’s Climate Action Plan

Posted on January 16, 2014 | 679 comments

by Judith Curry

The hearing is now concluded, I’m on a plane flying back to Atlanta.

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Posted in Policy

Forthcoming Senate EPW Hearing on President’s Climate Action Plan

Posted on January 13, 2014 | 504 comments

by Judith Curry

The Hearing is scheduled for Jan 16, and I have been tapped to testify.

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Posted in Uncategorized

The Fundamental Uncertainties of Climate Change

Posted on January 8, 2014 | 772 comments

by Garth Paltridge

There is more than enough uncertainty about the forecasting of climate to allow normal human beings to be at least reasonably hopeful that global warming might not be nearly as bad as is currently touted.  Climate scientists, and indeed scientists in general, are not so lucky.  They have a lot to lose if time should prove them wrong.

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Posted in Uncertainty