Category Archives: Climate change impacts

Apocalypse Never and False Alarm

Posted on July 24, 2020 by curryja | 125 comments

by Judith Curry

Two important new books to discuss.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Australian fires: Climate ‘truth bomb’?

Posted on February 24, 2020 by curryja | 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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Posted in Climate change impacts

Economic impact of energy consumption change caused by global warming

Posted on February 8, 2020 by curryja | 161 comments

by Peter Lang and Ken Gregory

A new paper ‘Economic impact of energy consumption change caused by global warming’ finds global warming may be beneficial.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Hearing on climate change and natural disasters: Today

Posted on June 25, 2019 by curryja | 144 comments

by Judith Curry

The House Oversight and Reform Environmental Subcommittee in a Hearing on Recovery, Resilience and Readiness – Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change begins at 2 pm EDT.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Hearing on climate change & extreme weather

Posted on June 23, 2019 by curryja | 85 comments

by Judith Curry

On Tuesday June 25, I will be testifying before the House Oversight and Reform Environmental Subcommittee in a Hearing on Recovery, Resilience and Readiness – Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Hearing on the Biodiversity Report

Posted on May 22, 2019 by curryja | 189 comments

by Judith Curry

The House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife is holding a Hearing today on Responding to the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Consensus

Rebelling against the Extinction Rebellion

Posted on May 4, 2019 by curryja | 168 comments

by Larry Kummer

The Extinction Rebellion and the Green New Deal arouse fears of extinction for other species, and humanity. Only the complicit silence of climate scientists makes this possible. Compare the alarmists’ claims with what scientists said in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Too bad that journalists don’t.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Communication

Special Report on Sea Level Rise

Posted on November 27, 2018 by curryja | 193 comments

by Judith Curry

I have now completed my assessment of sea level rise and climate change.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Oceans

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part VII U.S. coastal impacts

Posted on April 15, 2018 by curryja | 96 comments

by Judith Curry

The final installment in the CE series on sea level rise.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Oceans

Impact of Climate Change on Human Evolution: The Odyssey from Africa

Posted on January 25, 2018 by curryja | 77 comments

by Phil Salmon

How a small group of people from Africa changed the world. Continue reading →

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Sea level rise acceleration (or not): Part I – Introduction

Posted on January 16, 2018 by curryja | 349 comments

by Judith Curry

Introduction and context for a new Climate Etc. series on sea level rise.

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Posted in Attribution, Climate change impacts, Oceans

Is climate change the culprit causing California’s wildfires?

Posted on December 13, 2017 by curryja | 107 comments

by Larry Kummer

We’re told that climate change caused or intensified California’s wildfires — and that such fires are getting worse. As usual for such scary stories, these claims are only weakly supported by science — except for the ones that are outright fabrications.

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Posted in Causation, Climate change impacts

Estimating the cost to America of damage from climate change in the 21st century

Posted on July 1, 2017 by curryja | 217 comments

by Larry Kummer, originally posted at the Fabius Maximus website.

Another peer-reviewed paper predicting disaster from climate change by misrepresenting and exaggerating the science. We can still learn much from it.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

A beneficial climate change hypothesis

Posted on April 7, 2017 by curryja | 110 comments

by Rud Istvan

A novel hypothesis on the role of CO2 in the technological transition from hunter/gatherers to sedentary agriculture.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Will the Oroville Dam survive the ARkStorm?

Posted on March 17, 2017 by curryja | 271 comments

by David Hagen

Should California plan for permanent drought or climate persistence?

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Posted in Climate change impacts

The ‘threat’ of climate change

Posted on January 29, 2017 by curryja | 590 comments

by Judith Curry

A major disconnect in the discourse surrounding climate change is interpretation of the ‘threat’ of climate change.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Uncertainty

Sea level rise, acceleration and the closure problem

Posted on July 20, 2016 by curryja | 206 comments

by Rud Istvan

There is no doubt that interglacials change sea level (SL). And that sea level rise (SLR) can be dramatic on millennial interglacial time scales.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Oceans

Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on June 7, 2016 by curryja | 224 comments

by Judith Curry

Some new analyses are shedding some light on deficiencies in the approach to estimate the social cost of carbon.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Economics, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Rise in CO2 has greened planet Earth

Posted on April 26, 2016 by curryja | 453 comments

by Judith Curry

We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4% of the globe shows decreasing LAI (browning). Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend. – Zhu et al.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

George Washington’s winters

Posted on February 5, 2016 by curryja | 232 comments

by Judith Curry

Frozen rivers, knee-deep snows, sleet, frigid temperatures, and other winter miseries helped shape the story of George Washington’s life.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, History

NOAA fails walrus science

Posted on December 25, 2015 by curryja | 190 comments

by Jim Steele

NOAA’s Arctic report card made claims that hinge on the unproven hypothesis that a reduction in sea ice is detrimental by denying walruses access to foraging habitat.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by curryja | 514 comments

by Judith Curry

We know that climate change is a problem – but how big a problem is it? We have to answer this question before we can make a good decision about how much effort to put into dealing with it.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming?

Posted on July 2, 2015 by curryja | 396 comments

diby Judith Curry

Western Europe is on track for a potential record breaking heat wave. Should any of this be blamed on human-caused global warming?

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Did human-caused climate change lead to war in Syria?

Posted on May 22, 2015 by curryja | 154 comments

by Chip Knappenberger and Pat Michaels

Understand climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the world. It’s now believed that drought and crop failures and high food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into civil war in the heart of the Middle East – President Obama

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Posted in Climate change impacts