Week in review – science & policy edition

Posted on August 19, 2017 | 102 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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What do we know about Arctic sea ice trends?

Posted on August 16, 2017 | 199 comments

by Dr. Ronan Connolly & Dr. Michael Connolly

Satellite observations indicate that the average Arctic sea ice extent has generally decreased since the start of the satellite records in October 1978. Is this period long enough to assess whether the current sea level trend is unusual, and to what extent the decline is caused by humans?

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The blame game

Posted on August 14, 2017 | 182 comments

by Judith Curry

For the sake of argument, let’s accept the IPCC conclusions regarding attribution of global warming, and their 21st century projections.  So, exactly who in the U.S. bears the blame for current and future damages?

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Posted in Ethics, Politics

Nature Unbound IV – The 2400 Bray cycle. Part C

Posted on August 7, 2017 | 413 comments

by Javier

A possible mechanism for the effect of solar variability on climate, whereby solar variability acts over the stratospheric pressure system transmitting the changes top-down, and over ocean temperatures bottom-up.

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Posted in Adaptation, Data and observations

Electricity in Texas. Part II: the cost of a 100% renewable grid

Posted on August 6, 2017 | 246 comments

by Peter Davies

While onshore wind generation has been relatively inexpensive for some time, solar PV and lithium ion battery storage costs have recently shown dramatic reductions. So can Texas, with excellent onshore wind and solar resources, be powered economically entirely by renewables in the 2030-40 time frame? This article brings together the available public material to estimate the cost.

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Posted in Energy

Week in review – science and policy edition

Posted on August 5, 2017 | 158 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week. Continue reading →

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Update on the strength of aerosol forcing

Posted on July 29, 2017 | 298 comments

by Frank Bosse

Increasing evidence of small aerosol forcing supports the importance of internal variability in explaining inter hemispheric differences in temperature variability.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks