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Innate Skepticism

Posted on February 20, 2017 by curryja | 363 comments

On the origin of public skepticism and its entanglement with science.

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Posted in Skeptics, Sociology of science

Nature Unbound II: The Dansgaard- Oeschger Cycle

Posted on February 17, 2017 by curryja | 227 comments

by Javier

Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) events are the most dramatic and frequent abrupt climate change events in the geological record. They are usually explained as the result of an Atlantic Ocean salinity oscillation paced by internal variability. Available evidence however supports that they are the result of an externally paced oceanic-sea ice interaction in the Norwegian Sea. A lunisolar tidal cycle provides an unsupported hypothesis that explains all of the known evidence for the 1470-year pacing and the triggering mechanism for D-O oscillations.

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Posted in Attribution

Discussion: JC’s ‘role’

Posted on February 11, 2017 by curryja | 767 comments

by Judith Curry

In view of recent controversies, numerous criticisms have been made about my ‘role,’ with expectations of things that I ‘should’ be doing.

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Posted in Sociology of science

The new ‘climate denial’

Posted on February 10, 2017 by curryja | 393 comments

by Judith Curry

Interesting article in The Atlantic, but I’m still trying to figure out what is being ‘denied.’

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

Response to critiques: Climate scientists versus climate data

Posted on February 6, 2017 by curryja | 803 comments

by Judith Curry

Not surprisingly, John Bates’ blog post and David Rose’s article in the Mail on Sunday have been receiving some substantial attention.

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Posted in Data and observations, Ethics

Climate scientists versus climate data

Posted on February 4, 2017 by curryja | 761 comments

by John Bates

A look behind the curtain at NOAA’s climate data center.

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Posted in Data and observations, Ethics

Conflating the climate problem with the solution

Posted on February 3, 2017 by curryja | 181 comments

“one of the real tragedies that totally distorted the debate over climate change was that it got tied into the solution in a way that if you accepted the first you had to accept the second. And I think that was profoundly wrong.” – Newt Gingrich

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Ozone attainmnent

Posted on January 29, 2017 by curryja | 56 comments

by Roger Caiazza

At this time there is quite a bit of noise about potential problems if Scott Pruitt is confirmed to head EPA because he would “hamstring EPA’s authority to set nationwide environmental standards”.

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Posted in Policy

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

A case study of the Northern Colorado Front Range temperature history

Posted on January 20, 2017 by curryja | 127 comments

by Monte Naylor

A comparison of NOAA-computed temperature trends with the “raw” historical temperature data.

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Posted in Data and observations

Rethinking the Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on January 17, 2017 by curryja | 203 comments

by Judith Curry

The Social Cost of Carbon is emerging as a major source of contention in the Trump Administration.

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Posted in Economics, Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Beyond Physics: Advanced Biology and Climate Change

Posted on January 15, 2017 by curryja | 286 comments

by Clive Hambler

Reflections on the stabilization of Earth’s climate by life.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Skin in the game

Posted on January 9, 2017 by curryja | 485 comments

by Judith Curry

Some reflections on my transition from academic climate research to private sector weather forecasting and regional climate change assessments.

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Posted in Energy, Sociology of science

Uncertainties in sea surface temperatures

Posted on January 4, 2017 by curryja | 295 comments

by Judith Curry

Two new papers have focused on the quality, uncertainties and interpretation of global sea surface temperature data.

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Posted in Data and observations, Oceans

JC in transition

Posted on January 3, 2017 by curryja | 330 comments

by Judith Curry

Effective January 1, I have resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech.

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Posted in Sociology of science

The two-faced ‘reality’ of a clean energy future

Posted on January 2, 2017 by curryja | 148 comments

by Judith Curry

Michael Liebrich has written an extremely insightful (not to mention clever) article entitled It’s a new year and time to face reality.

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Posted in Energy

Discussion thread – Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on December 30, 2016 by curryja | 242 comments

by David Wojick

The Social Cost of Carbon is absurd but entrenched.

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Posted in Policy

Internal climate variability as a confounding factor in climate sensitivity estimates

Posted on December 29, 2016 by curryja | 333 comments

by Frank Bosse

Towards eliminating multi-decadal natural oscillations in determination of the Transient Climate Response (TCR) to CO2.
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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Merry Xmas

Posted on December 24, 2016 by curryja | 91 comments

by Judith Curry

My very best wishes to all during the holiday season, whatever you might be celebrating.

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Posted in Uncategorized

The tragedy of the horizon

Posted on December 21, 2016 by curryja | 290 comments

by Judith Curry

Too rapid a movement towards a low-carbon economy could materially damage financial stability: a climate Minsky moment — Mark Carney

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Posted in Policy

King Canute versus the climate planners

Posted on December 20, 2016 by curryja | 225 comments

by Judith Curry

On sea level rise, President Obama and King Canute.

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Posted in Policy

On the Decrease of Hot Days in the US

Posted on December 16, 2016 by curryja | 123 comments

by Turbulent Eddie

Adjusted USHCN data indicate a decrease in CONUS hot days TMAX >= 100°F

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Posted in Data and observations

The latest climate ‘conspiracy theory’

Posted on December 15, 2016 by curryja | 464 comments

by Judith Curry

Guess who the new climate ‘conspiracy theorists’ are?

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Posted in Sociology of science

Shifting sands of the climate debate

Posted on December 12, 2016 by curryja | 462 comments

by Judith Curry

Insiders are out; and outsiders are becoming the insiders.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Climate Heretic: to be or not to be?

Posted on December 5, 2016 by curryja | 855 comments

by Judith Curry

On experts, lukewarmers, and unhappy heretics.

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Posted in Sociology of science