Climate Etc.

Root Cause Analysis of the Modern Warming

Posted on October 23, 2014 by curryja | 351 comments

by Matt Skaggs

For years, climate scientists have followed reasoning that goes from climate model simulations to expert opinion, declaring that to be sufficient. But that is not how attribution works.

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Posted in Attribution

Myths and realities of renewable energy

Posted on October 22, 2014 by curryja | 824 comments

by Planning Engineer

Power System Planners do not have the expertise or knowledge to say whether or not the benefits of reducing carbon emissions are worth the costs. However they should be respected as experts for obtaining a better understanding of what the implications and costs of such programs are.

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Posted in Energy

Ethics of communicating scientific uncertainty

Posted on October 21, 2014 by curryja | 812 comments

by Judith Curry

Last month I attended a Workshop on The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Uncertainty: Understanding How Scientists, Environmental Lawyers, and Journalists Treat Uncertainty.

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Posted in Communication, Ethics

Back from the twitter twilight zone: Responses to my WSJ op-ed

Posted on October 18, 2014 by curryja | 833 comments

by Judith Curry

I’ve just returned from China, the first thing I did in the U.S. airport on my layover back to Atlanta was to check twitter.

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Posted in Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks

New presentations on sea ice

Posted on October 15, 2014 by curryja | 480 comments

by Judith Curry

I have prepared two new talks on sea ice to present in Nanjing.

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Posted in Polar regions

Words of wisdom from Charles Lyell

Posted on October 14, 2014 by curryja | 288 comments

by Judith Curry

We are also told of general catastrophes and a succession of deluges, of the alternation of periods of repose and disorder, of the refrigeration of the globe, and of the sudden annihilation of whole races of animals and plants, and other hypotheses, in which we see the ancient spirit of speculation revived, and a desire manifested to cut, rather than patiently to untie, the Gordian knot. – Charles Lyell

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Posted in Scientific method

My week(s) in review

Posted on October 13, 2014 by curryja | 281 comments

by Judith Curry

Some reflections on my recent travels, speaking engagements, and workshops.

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Posted in Week in review

My WSJ op-ed: Global warming statistical meltdown

Posted on October 9, 2014 by curryja | 750 comments

by Judith Curry

I was invited to submit an op-ed regarding the recent Lewis/Curry paper on climate sensitivity. Continue reading →

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Posted in Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Evidence of deep ocean cooling?

Posted on October 5, 2014 by curryja | 507 comments

by Judith Curry

New research suggests that the upper layer of the ocean has warmed more than had been thought previously while the deeper ocean has cooled rather than warmed in recent years.

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Posted in Attribution

Challenging the 2 degree target

Posted on October 3, 2014 by curryja | 303 comments

by Judith Curry

“Without significant cuts in emissions by all countries, and in key sectors, the window of opportunity to stay within less than 2 degrees [of warming] will soon close forever.” – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Steyn versus Mann: norms of behavior

Posted on October 1, 2014 by curryja | 511 comments

by Judith Curry

Mark Steyn’s latest blog post, and the ensuing tweets, prompts some reflections on norms of behavior for scientists versus political commentators.

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Posted in Ethics

Two contrasting views of multidecadal climate variability in the 20th century

Posted on September 28, 2014 by curryja | 345 comments

by Judith Curry

Our new stadium wave paper is now published.

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Posted in Attribution

Lewis and Curry: Climate sensitivity uncertainty

Posted on September 24, 2014 by curryja | 543 comments

by Judith Curry

Our new paper on climate sensitivity is now published.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks, Uncertainty

An unsettled climate

Posted on September 21, 2014 by curryja | 763 comments

by Judith Curry

I’ve been invited by several venues to write an op-ed related to my recent presentation at the National Press Club.

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Posted in Communication, Policy

Distinguishing the academic from the interface consensus

Posted on September 18, 2014 by curryja | 444 comments

by Judith Curry

We shed new light on the epistemic struggle between establishing consensus and acknowledging plurality, by explicating different ways of consensus-making in science and society and examining the impact hereof on their field of intersection. – Laszlo Kosolosky and Jeroen Van Bouwel

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Posted in Consensus

Greening the world’s deserts

Posted on September 17, 2014 by curryja | 239 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting thrivability ideas for the world’s deserts.

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Posted in Adaptation

JC at the National Press Club

Posted on September 16, 2014 by curryja | 473 comments

by Judith Curry

I have just returned from my engagement at the National Press Club, sponsored by the Marshall Institute Roundtable.

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Posted in Adaptation, Attribution, Policy

How to criticize with kindness

Posted on September 15, 2014 by curryja | 631 comments

by Judith Curry

“Just how charitable are you supposed to be when criticizing the views of an opponent?” – Daniel Dennett

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Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science

Week in review

Posted on September 13, 2014 by curryja | 564 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Fraudulent(?) hockey stick

Posted on September 11, 2014 by curryja | 1,306 comments

by Judith Curry

Some new angles in Mann vs Steyn et al.

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Posted in Ethics, Sociology of science

Vitaly Khvorostyanov responds

Posted on September 8, 2014 by curryja | 409 comments

by Vitaly Khvorostyanov

Some replies to and comments on the remarks by WebHubTelescope and others, written in response to the blog post Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Microphysics of Clouds.

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Posted in Communication

Week in review

Posted on September 6, 2014 by curryja | 418 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

What exactly is going on in their heads?

Posted on September 5, 2014 by curryja | 441 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting new research on understanding why there is a lack of public support for the climate change ‘consensus’, the nature of the scientific consensus, and agendas in characterizing the consensus.

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Posted in Consensus, Skeptics