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Sunday’s climate ‘logic’

Posted on September 22, 2013 | 794 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting tweets this morning on my twitter feed.

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Politics of the 2C target

Posted on September 21, 2013 | 333 comments

by Judith Curry

The modification of the 2C climate target will put an end to the vision of a “science-based” climate policy – Oliver Geden

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy, Politics

The IPCC’s ‘inconvenient truth’

Posted on September 20, 2013 | 298 comments

by Judith Curry

I have a fairly lengthy op-ed that has been published in The Australian.

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Posted in Consensus, IPCC

Quote of the day

Posted on September 20, 2013 | 92 comments

by Judith Curry

There are a number of explanations (for the hiatus), any one of which might be correct.  That is very different from saying: ‘We have no idea what’s going on’. – Myles Allen

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CO2 ‘control knob’ fallacy (?)

Posted on September 20, 2013 | 399 comments

by Judith Curry

Previous IPCC reports — and much of the debate over how to react to them — have appeared to treat the Earth’s climate as if it were a domestic central heating system, with carbon emissions analogous to the dial on the thermostat: a small tweak here will result in a temperature rise of precisely 0.2°C and so on. – The Spectator

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Posted in Greenhouse effect, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Peer review: the skeptic filter

Posted on September 19, 2013 | 417 comments

by Judith Curry

As the IPCC struggles with its inconvenient truth – the pause and the growing discrepancy between models and observations – the obvious question is: why is the IPCC just starting to grapple with this issue now, essentially two minutes before midnite of the release of the AR5?

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Posted in IPCC, Skeptics

Quote of the week

Posted on September 19, 2013 | 153 comments

by Judith Curry

I can envisage an irony of history where climatology enters a period of crisis and loses its central place in public discourse about climate change, thus opening up discursive spaces for pragmatic options to deal with the problem. – Reiner Grundman

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Posted in IPCC

Consensus denialism

Posted on September 17, 2013 | 653 comments

by Judith Curry

Consensus denial:   attacking the expert consensus on human caused global warming.  – Dana Nuccitelli

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Posted in Consensus

Inter-decadal Variation in Northern Hemisphere sea ice

Posted on September 16, 2013 | 384 comments

by Greg Goodman

On the deceleration in the decline of the Arctic sea ice.

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Posted in Polar regions

Leaked IPCC report discussed in the MSM

Posted on September 15, 2013 | 528 comments

by Judith Curry

I’m not sure what the IPCC expected when they leaked their report to ‘friendly’ journalists, but I suspect that it was not this article by David Rose,

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Posted in IPCC

Nic Lewis on the UK Met Office on the pause

Posted on September 14, 2013 | 583 comments

by Nic Lewis

These comments constitute a response to erroneous statements and misrepresentations made in a report published by the Met Office in July 2013: “The recent pause in global warming (3): What are the implications for projections of future warming?” (the Report).

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Posted in climate models, Sensitivity & feedbacks

PDO, ENSO and sea level rise

Posted on September 13, 2013 | 318 comments

by Judith Curry

Three new papers to discuss on the topic of natural internal variability and sea level rise.

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A standard for policy-relevant science

Posted on September 12, 2013 | 300 comments

by Judith Curry

In Nature, Ian Boyd calls for an auditing process to help policy-makers to navigate research bias.

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Posted in Uncategorized

Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise

Posted on September 11, 2013 | 264 comments

by Judith Curry

Researchers need to communicate the policy implications of their results clearly and comprehensively to policy makers and the public—including a clear assessment of the uncertainties associated with their results—while avoiding advocacy based on their authority as researchers.

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Posted in Ethics

Laframboise’s new book on the IPCC

Posted on September 9, 2013 | 680 comments

by Judith Curry

Could we switch to the grownup channel, please? – Donna Laframboise.

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Posted in IPCC

Arctic sea ice minimum?

Posted on September 8, 2013 | 594 comments

by Judith Curry

It looks like the Arctic sea ice is close to reaching its seasonal minimum, reflecting a substantial increase in sea ice relative to the record breaking minimum in 2012.

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Posted in Polar regions

Big green in denial

Posted on September 7, 2013 | 308 comments

by Judith Curry

Naomi Klein explains how environmentalists may be more damaging to their cause than climate change deniers.

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Posted in Communication, Politics

True courage(?)

Posted on September 6, 2013 | 271 comments

by Judith Curry

True courage is knowing when you’re wrong but refusing to admit it. – The Onion

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Posted in Consensus, Uncertainty

U.S. Republicans: critical thinking on climate change

Posted on September 5, 2013 | 443 comments

by Judith Curry

The U.S. Senate Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee have issued a Minority Report entitled Critical Thinking on Climate Change.

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Posted in Politics

What is Scientific Mediation?

Posted on September 4, 2013 | 449 comments

by Judith Curry

Making clear what the real scientific dispute is about.

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Natural internal variability: sensitivity and attribution

Posted on September 3, 2013 | 568 comments

by Judith Curry

There is growing evidence to support the hypothesis that the pause cause is tied to a change in tropical Pacific Ocean circulations.  What are the implications of this for climate sensitivity and attribution of warming in the latter part of the 20th century?

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Posted in Attribution

Professors, politics and public policy

Posted on September 2, 2013 | 465 comments

by Judith Curry

On academic misconceptions of politics and the policy process.

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465 Comments

Posted in Policy

Climate of failure(?)

Posted on September 1, 2013 | 413 comments

by Judith Curry

On the politics of global warming policy.

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Posted in Policy

Ice sheet collapse?

Posted on August 30, 2013 | 243 comments

by Rud Istvan

One of the catastrophes associated with anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) is a rising sea.     Is the projected rise and rate unprecedented? Will it be catastrophic?                                   

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Data and observations

Pause politics

Posted on August 30, 2013 | 250 comments

by Judith Curry

U.S. and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to “panic” about environmental changes, leaked documents show.

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Posted in Attribution, IPCC, Politics