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by Judith Curry

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

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by Judith Curry

Evidence reported by the IPCC AR5 weakens the case for anthropogenic factors dominating climate change in the 20^th and early 21^st centuries.

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by Judith Curry

My interview with Russ Roberts of EconTalk is now online.

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by Judith Curry

It’s your turn to introduce topics for discussion.

by Judith Curry

The US CLIVAR Program has published a Science plan that provides a roadmap for the next 15 years [link].

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by Judith Curry

It’s your turn to introduce topics into discussion; this thread will be more lightly moderated than topical threads.

by Judith Curry

It’s time for a discussion on blog commenting policy and moderation.

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by Judith Curry

Climate change is an externality that is global, pervasive, long-term, and uncertain–but even though the scale  and complexity of this externality is unprecedented,  economic theory is well equipped for such problems–and advice based on rigorous economic analysis is any way preferred to wishy-washy thinking. – Richard Tol

Integrated Assessment Model-based analyses of climate policy create a perception of knowledge and precision, but that perception is illusory and misleading. – Robert Pindyck

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by Andy West

The hypothesis for a single, simple, scientific explanation underlying the entire complex social phenomenon of CAGW.

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by Judith Curry

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by Rud Istvan

The Associated Press ran an alarming news piece on 9/6/13:                     Climate Change Threatens Caribbean’s Water Supply

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by Pierre Darriulat

My interest, or rather curiosity, in climate science has taken me into landscapes that I had never seriously explored before and has opened my eyes and mind on unexpected topics.

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by Judith Curry

Time of emergence of a warming signal is a topic that is receiving increasing discussion.

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by Judith Curry

I am trying to understand how sceptics and warmists can look at pretty much the same information and come up with two very different conclusions – Mike Haseler, the Scottish Sceptic

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by Judith Curry

[Marotzke] attributed the oversight to a tendency of each group working on each of the 14 chapters to rely on some other chapter to deal with the issue. And anyone who was thinking about it at all thought some other chapter should handle the issue. – CS Monitor

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by Judith Curry

Earth is in a lot of pain, folks.  Time to think about sending it off peacefully, for its own sake.  Look, at the end of the day, Earth is 4.5 billion years old and had a great life. The last thing you want to do is wait and draw this difficult ordeal out any further. – The Onion

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by Judith Curry

Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the UK Met Office,   has responded to Nic Lewis’ critique of UK Met Office’s report on the pause.

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by Judith Curry

Global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of the atmosphere’s chemistry. – Fred Pearce

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by Rud Istvan

The crescendo of climate change ‘bad’ news leading up to release of problematic AR5 SPM continues.

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by Judith Curry

Some interesting tweets this morning on my twitter feed.

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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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by Judith Curry

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

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by Judith Curry

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

by Judith Curry

Has Climategate been a good thing? – Mike Hulme

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by Judith Curry

Earlier dire predictions have been made in the same mode by Malthus  on food security, Jevons on coal exhaustion, King  & Murray on peak oil, and by many others. They have all been overcome by the exercise of human ingenuity just as the doom was being prophesied. – Michael Kelly

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