Author Archives: curryja

Science and politics

Posted on October 26, 2020 | 632 comments

by Judith Curry

“I’m reaching out to scientists this week about the election. How do you feel about it? Which of the candidates has the best plan, for you, in science and technology?”

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Posted in Politics

Climate science and the Supreme Court

Posted on October 16, 2020 | 737 comments

by Judith Curry

An alternative assessment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s statements on climate change.

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Posted in Politics

What the pandemic has taught us about science

Posted on October 10, 2020 | 285 comments

The scientific method remains the best way to solve many problems, but bias, overconfidence and politics can sometimes lead scientists astray

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285 Comments

Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science, Uncertainty

How we fool ourselves

Posted on October 4, 2020 | 268 comments

by Judith Curry

Crowd sourcing examples of fallacious thinking from climate science.

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Posted in Sociology of science, Uncertainty

FIRE

Posted on September 15, 2020 | 143 comments

by Judith Curry

Subtitle: our failure to live in harmony with nature.

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Posted in Extreme events

Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet.

Posted on September 8, 2020 | 228 comments

by Judith Curry

A thought-provoking article from my new favorite blog, The Ethical Skeptic.

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Posted in Causation, Ethics, Skeptics

New confirmation that climate models overstate atmospheric warming

Posted on August 25, 2020 | 154 comments

by Ross McKitrick

Two new peer-reviewed papers from independent teams confirm that climate models overstate atmospheric warming and the problem has gotten worse over time, not better.

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Posted in climate models

Apocalypse Never and False Alarm

Posted on July 24, 2020 | 125 comments

by Judith Curry

Two important new books to discuss.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Mass spectrometry and climate science. Part II

Posted on June 25, 2020 | 9 comments

by Roland Hirsch

New technologies in mass spectrometry are advancing research in climate science

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Posted in Data and observations

Structural errors in global climate models

Posted on June 20, 2020 | 99 comments

by Gerald Browning

Climate model sensitivity to CO2 is heavily dependent on artificial parameterizations (e.g. clouds, convection) that are implemented in global climate models that utilize the wrong atmospheric dynamical system and excessive dissipation.

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Posted in climate models

Mass spectrometry and climate science. Part I: Determining past climates

Posted on June 16, 2020 | 28 comments

by Roland Hirsch

Mass spectrometry is essential for research in climate science.

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Posted in Uncategorized

Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Oceans

Posted on June 9, 2020 | 69 comments

by Judith Curry

Peter Webster’s magnum opus is now published: Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Oceans.

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Posted in Oceans

Culturally-determined response to climate change: Part III

Posted on May 16, 2020 | 55 comments

by Andy West

Climate change affirmative responses to all survey questions are culturally determined, and across National Publics related to religiousity. Cultural attitudes inappropriately push climate policy.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Greening the planet and slouching towards Paris?

Posted on May 14, 2020 | 117 comments

by Patrick J. Michaels

A new paper finds higher than expected CO₂ fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations. The paper predicts that the Earth is going to gain nearly three times as much green matter as was predicted by the IPCC AR5.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Apparent Paradoxes in the relationship of Climate ‘Concerns, Skepticism, Activism, and Priority’, explained by Religiosity

Posted on April 27, 2020 | 58 comments

by Andy West

Explores the contrast between Allied and Core belief in the culture of climate catastrophe, and the relationships of these plus religiosity to Climate Change Activism (XR and Children’s Strikes for Climate). Post 2 of 3.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Can religiosity predict cultural climate beliefs?

Posted on April 17, 2020 | 168 comments

by Andy West

Probing the relationship between religiosity globally, and cultural beliefs in the narrative of imminent / certain global climate catastrophe: Post 1 of 3.

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168 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

In favor of epistemic trespassing

Posted on April 14, 2020 | 323 comments

by Judith Curry

On the importance of expertise from other fields for COVD19 and climate change.

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323 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

Sunday fun: personality testing

Posted on April 5, 2020 | 120 comments

by Judith Curry

And now for something different.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Coronavirus uncertainty

Posted on March 19, 2020 | 416 comments

by Judith Curry

My thoughts on coronavirus and deep uncertainty.

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416 Comments

Posted in Uncertainty

Coronavirus technical thread

Posted on March 19, 2020 | 96 comments

by Judith Curry

A thread devoted to technical topics, e.g. epidemiology, immunology, treatments. A more general thread will be coming shortly.

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96 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized

Australian fires: Climate ‘truth bomb’?

Posted on February 24, 2020 | 335 comments

by Alan Longhurst

Recipe for Australia’s climate ‘truth bomb’: dubious manipulations of the historical temperature record, ignorance of the climate dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere, and ignorance of Australia’s ecological and social history.

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335 Comments

Posted in Climate change impacts

Plausible scenarios for climate change: 2020-2050

Posted on February 13, 2020 | 229 comments

by Judith Curry

A range of scenarios for global mean surface temperature change between 2020 and 2050, derived using a semi-empirical approach. All three modes of natural climate variability – volcanoes, solar and internal variability – are expected to act in the direction of cooling during this period.

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229 Comments

Posted in climate models, Sensitivity & feedbacks, Solar, Uncertainty