Industry funding and bias

Posted on August 16, 2015 by | 212 comments

by Judith Curry

When should research come with a ‘warning’ label?

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Posted in Ethics

‘Climate culture’ versus ‘knowing disbelief’

Posted on August 14, 2015 by | 103 comments

by Andy West

Climate culture versus knowing disbelief.

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Posted in Sociology of science

Mark Steyn’s new book on Michael Mann

Posted on August 13, 2015 by | 735 comments

by Judith Curry

A Disgrace to the Profession: The World’s Scientists – in their own words – on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science – Volume One

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735 Comments

Posted in Communication, Ethics

Carly Fiorina hits the ‘sweet spot’ on climate change

Posted on August 12, 2015 by | 185 comments

by Judith Curry

Carly Fiorina shows how to address the left on climate change.

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185 Comments

Posted in Politics

The adversarial method versus Feynman integrity

Posted on August 12, 2015 by | 168 comments

by Judith Curry

If you think about the costs I’ll pay for raising these concerns, including the cost of damaged relationships with people that I like, I think you will conclude that a personal commitment to science is the only thing that could be big enough to offset these costs. – Paul Romer

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168 Comments

Posted in Ethics, Scientific method

Will the President’s Clean Power Plan save consumers money?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by | 273 comments

by Dave Rutledge

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On August 3, President Obama declared that “under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28% of our capacity,” and “will save the average American family nearly $85 on their annual energy bill in 2030.”

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Posted in Economics, Energy

Embracing uncertainty in climate change policy (!)

Posted on August 5, 2015 by | 387 comments

We argue for a redesign of climate change mitigation policies to be ‘anti-fragile’ with respect to scientific uncertainty. – Otto et al.

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387 Comments

Posted in Attribution, Policy

President Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Posted on August 3, 2015 by | 406 comments

by Judith Curry

The effects of climate change are already being felt across the nation. In the past three decades, the percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled, and climate change is putting those Americans at greater risk of landing in the hospital.

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406 Comments

Posted in Energy, Policy

Assessments, meta-analyses, discussion and peer review

Posted on July 29, 2015 by | 440 comments

by Judith Curry

There is an unfortunate knowledge monopoly in climate science and policy – the IPCC and UNFCCC.  As a result there is insufficient intellectual and political diversity in assessments about climate change.  To break this monopoly, we need identify new frameworks for encouraging, publishing and publicizing independent and interdisciplinary ideas and assessments.

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Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

Microgrids and “Clean” Energy

Posted on July 28, 2015 by | 142 comments

by Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan

Microgrids and “clean” energy are intertwined in the minds of many. There is a common belief that microgrids will facilitate “clean” energy and that “clean” energy will better support microgrids.

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142 Comments

Posted in Uncategorized

Hansen’s backfire

Posted on July 26, 2015 by | 520 comments

by Judith Curry

Jim Hansen’s new paper, and his PR strategy, are raising a whole host of issues that are arguably a backfire for his objectives.

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520 Comments

Posted in Attribution

Eco – (post) modernism

Posted on July 22, 2015 by | 528 comments

by Judith Curry

Can we have a good, even great, anthropocene?

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528 Comments

Posted in Adaptation

Risk assessment: What is the plausible ‘worst scenario’ for climate change?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by | 514 comments

by Judith Curry

We know that climate change is a problem – but how big a problem is it? We have to answer this question before we can make a good decision about how much effort to put into dealing with it.

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514 Comments

Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Decision strategies for uncertain, complex situations

Posted on July 15, 2015 by | 605 comments

by Judith Curry

How to gain clarity when making decisions in uncertain and complex situations.

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605 Comments

Posted in Policy, Uncertainty

The Siddhartha heuristic

Posted on July 13, 2015 by | 286 comments

by Judith Curry

Siddhārtha Gautama was a prince who was only told good news, and protected from seeing suffering and death. But he finally realised that he was not seeing the world as it really was, and so he left his palace to first take on the life as a wandering ascetic, and eventually to become the Buddha. – David Spiegelhalter

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286 Comments

Posted in Communication, Sociology of science

Pre-traumatic stress syndrome: climate scientists speak out

Posted on July 10, 2015 by | 250 comments

by Judith Curry

Well this has been a really interesting week  for hearing about what climate scientists think and feel about potential future impacts of climate change.

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250 Comments

Posted in Communication

Which climate change papers ‘matter’?

Posted on July 10, 2015 by | 209 comments

by Judith Curry

A recent series of posts by Climate Brief has some interesting answers and raises some important questions.

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209 Comments

Posted in Sociology of science

Recent hiatus caused by decadal shift in Indo-Pacific heating

Posted on July 9, 2015 by | 187 comments

by Judith Curry

The hiatus lives.

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187 Comments

Posted in Data and observations

Is the EPA’s Clean Power Plan legal? Lawyers and law professors disagree

Posted on July 7, 2015 by | 159 comments

by Judith Curry

We polled 130 environmental attorneys and law professors from around the country about the legality of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan. The results might surprise you. – Brian Potts and Abigail Barnes

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159 Comments

Posted in Consensus, Policy

New research on atmospheric radiative transfer

Posted on July 6, 2015 by | 271 comments

by Judith Curry

Three new papers highlight how atmospheric radiative transfer, particularly how it is treated in climate models, is not ‘settled science.’

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271 Comments

Posted in climate models, Greenhouse effect

The beyond-two-degree inferno

Posted on July 5, 2015 by | 627 comments

by Judith Curry

The time for debate has ended. – Marcia McNutt, editor of Science

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627 Comments

Posted in Ethics

A key admission regarding climate memes

Posted on July 3, 2015 by | 421 comments

by Andy West

Lewandowsky and Oreskes raise the prospect that via the agency of memes, the climate Consensus with its high certainty of danger, could be a socially generated artifact and not a scientific fact.

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421 Comments

Posted in Communication, Consensus, Sociology of science

Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming?

Posted on July 2, 2015 by | 396 comments

diby Judith Curry

Western Europe is on track for a potential record breaking heat wave.  Should any of this be blamed on human-caused global warming?

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396 Comments

Posted in Climate change impacts

Intermittent grid storage

Posted on July 1, 2015 by | 261 comments

by Rud Istvan

From the utility grid perspective, a fundamental problem with wind and solar is intermittency.

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261 Comments

Posted in Energy

Impact of AMO/PDO on U.S. regional surface temperatures

Posted on June 30, 2015 by | 146 comments

by Judith Curry

The conclusion is that the oscillatory mode (mostly due to the AMO) is significantly more important than the monotonic mode (mostly due to increasing atmospheric CO2) in explaining the 1980–2000 U.S. temperature increase.  – Bruce Kurtz

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Posted in Attribution