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Shell game

Posted on September 26, 2013 by | 105 comments

by Rud Istvan Is ocean acidification the  new global warming?

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Let’s play hockey – again

Posted on March 11, 2013 by | 1,147 comments

by Rud Istvan On March 8, 2013, mainstream media around the world carried headlines trumpeting a new study in Science, the gist typified by NBC News: Warming fastest since dawn of civilization Except that is not what the paper was … Continue reading →

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Posted in Data and observations

IEA Facts and Fictions

Posted on February 11, 2013 by | 363 comments

by Rud Istvan and Brandon Shollenberger Comments on the previous Climate Etc post on Maggio and Cacciola’s paper, When will oil, natural gas, and coal peak? motivated an analysis of the World Energy Outlook produced annually by the International Energy … Continue reading →

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Posted in Energy

Playing hockey – blowing the whistle

Posted on March 19, 2013 by | 933 comments

by Rud Istvan This instantly ‘famous’ 2013 Science hockey stick paper derived from Marcott’s 2011 Ph.D thesis at Oregon State University, available here. His thesis doesn’t show a hockey stick ‘blade’ projecting above its anomaly baseline NCDC 1961-1990. H/T to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Data and observations

Another Hockey Stick

Posted on February 1, 2013 by | 507 comments

by Rud Istvan Fossil fuel availability affects how much CO2 will be emitted, which might or might not affect climate much. Hubbert’s 1956 insight suggests total peak oil is near (around 2020), and that gas and coal will peak by … Continue reading →

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Posted in Energy

The Government-Climate Complex

Posted on July 8, 2012 by | 255 comments

by Rud Istvan Groundbreaking science is sometimes a global collaborative effort (CERN, Higgs boson, July 4). It is more often a contact sport—especially when individuals challenge a prevailing paradigm. In 1926 the president of the American Philosophical Society called Wegener’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in Policy

What climate sensitivity says about the IPCC assessment process

Posted on July 22, 2012 by | 204 comments

by Rud Istvan If climate sensitivity is high, then modest GHG increases cause significant warming. If it is low, then significant GHG increases will not. Analysis of the IPCC assessment of sensitivity provides another window into the ‘government-climate research’ complex … Continue reading →

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Posted in Attribution, Consensus

NRC’s artless untruths on climate change and food security

Posted on March 22, 2012 by | 274 comments

by Rud Istvan Here is a recent example of artful lack of disclosure in the climate change debate, on the possible negative impacts of climate change on food security.

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Posted in Climate change impacts