Climate Etc.

A frequent topic at Climate Etc. is the ‘consensus.’ An argument is presented here that the climate consensus is as much about culture as it is about climate science.

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Posted in Consensus, Sociology of science

Iatrogenic (?) climate policy

Posted on November 18, 2015 by curryja | 461 comments

by Judith Curry

So, is the climate ‘cure’ worse than the climate ‘disease’?

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Posted in Economics, Policy

400(?) years of warming

Posted on November 16, 2015 by curryja | 474 comments

by Judith Curry

So, exactly how long has it been warming?

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Posted in Attribution, Data and observations

Call for an ethical framework for climate services

Posted on November 12, 2015 by curryja | 241 comments

by Judith Curry

The urgent need for an ethical framework is heightened by the recognition that negative consequences can arise when climate services are not used to robustly translate science into the decision-making context or when services are deployed in ways that (implicitly or explicitly) bias an outcome.

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Posted in Ethics

Lomborg: Impact of Current Climate Proposals

Posted on November 9, 2015 by curryja | 276 comments

by Judith Curry

Current climate policy promises will do little to stabilize the climate and their impact will be undetectable for many decades. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Posted in Policy

Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Is Fossil Fuel Like Tobacco?

Posted on November 8, 2015 by curryja | 202 comments

by Lucas Bergkamp

At a Workshop in 2012, a group of scientists, lawyers and advocacy groups discussed what lessons could be learned from the tobacco litigation for launching successful climate change litigation against corporations.

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Posted in Policy

Hiatus controversy: show me the data

Posted on November 6, 2015 by curryja | 674 comments

by Judith Curry

The scientific and political controversies surrounding the hiatus have continued to heat up. Lets take a look at ALL the global temperature data sets.

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Posted in Data and observations

JC op ed: the politics surrounding global temperature data

Posted on November 5, 2015 by curryja | 381 comments

by Judith Curry

My op-ed in Fox News: Is government tinkering with global warming data?

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381 Comments

Posted in Ethics, Politics

Lukewarming

Posted on November 5, 2015 by curryja | 199 comments

by Judith Curry

Two new books on lukewarming have recently been published.

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Posted in Attribution, Communication, Policy

Steve Koonin: The tough realities of the Paris climate talks

Posted on November 4, 2015 by curryja | 256 comments

by Judith Curry

And, overarching all this, the tension between emissions reductions and development is complicated by uncertainties in how the climate will change under human and natural influences and how those changes will impact natural and human systems. – Steve Koonin

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Posted in Energy, Policy

Informed Consent for Climate Policy

Posted on November 3, 2015 by curryja | 58 comments

by Lucas Bergkamp

A hypothetical medical case involving uncertain diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy to explain the wickedness of climate change.
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Posted in Policy

Natural climate variability during 1880-1950: A response to Shaun Lovejoy

Posted on November 3, 2015 by curryja | 362 comments

by Vaughan Pratt

Judith Curry’s recent critical assessment of “L4”, as I’ll call Shaun Lovejoy’s October 20 EOS article, raised the following points:

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Posted in Attribution

Kiribati crisis: the blame game

Posted on November 1, 2015 by curryja | 74 comments

by Judith Curry

Small atoll islands may grow, not sink, as sea level rises.

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Posted in Oceans

Adjudicating scientific disputes in climate science

Posted on October 29, 2015 by curryja | 191 comments

by Judith Curry

The limits of judicial competence and the risk of taking sides

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Posted in Consensus, Policy

Hypocrisy at universities over oil company funding/divestment

Posted on October 27, 2015 by curryja | 146 comments

by Judith Curry

Have you been wondering whether the university’s calling for fossil fuel divestment also accept research funds from fossil fuel companies?

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Posted in Ethics

Climate closure (?)

Posted on October 23, 2015 by curryja | 717 comments

by Judith Curry

The scientific debate is now over; the moment of closure has arrived. – Shaun Lovejoy

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Posted in Attribution, Sensitivity & feedbacks

A peculiar kind of science

Posted on October 20, 2015 by curryja | 485 comments

by Judith Curry

This brief summary of the history of scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change is a peculiar history, as histories of science go. – Spencer Weart

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Posted in Sociology of science

Pink flamingos versus black swans

Posted on October 19, 2015 by curryja | 252 comments

by Judith Curry

American strategists would benefit from a longer-range view of history to better inform force design. Thinking historically about the future means dealing openly with those things we want to avoid or are in denial about. – Frank Hoffman

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Posted in Policy