Climate Etc.

The inconvenient Southern Hemisphere

Posted on May 1, 2014 by curryja | 407 comments

by Judith Curry

Given the new information now available from the Southern Hemisphere, climate scientists must consider a larger role for natural climate variability in contributing to global temperature changes over the past millennium. – Kim Cobb

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Posted in Data and observations

IPCC TAR and the hockey stick

Posted on April 29, 2014 by curryja | 579 comments

by Judith Curry

Regarding the Hockey Stick of IPCC 2001 evidence now indicates, in my view, that an IPCC Lead Author working with a small cohort of scientists, misrepresented the temperature record of the past 1000 years by (a) promoting his own result as the best estimate, (b) neglecting studies that contradicted his, and (c) amputating another’s result so as to eliminate conflicting data and limit any serious attempt to expose the real uncertainties of these data. – John Christy

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Posted in IPCC

An alternative metric to assess global warming

Posted on April 28, 2014 by curryja | 379 comments

by Roger A. Pielke Sr., Richard T. McNider, and John Christy

The thing we’ve all forgotten is the heat storage of the ocean – it’s a thousand times greater than the atmosphere and the surface. – James Lovelock

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Posted in Uncategorized

The Curry factor: 30 to 1

Posted on April 27, 2014 by curryja | 412 comments

by Judith Curry

For balance, for every @curryja you would need 30 from mainstream. – Victor Venema

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Posted in Consensus, Skeptics

Stavins and Tol on IPCC WG3

Posted on April 26, 2014 by curryja | 238 comments

by Judith Curry

Many of the more worrying impacts of climate change really are symptoms of mismanagement and underdevelopment. – Richard Tol

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Posted in IPCC

Slowing sea level rise

Posted on April 24, 2014 by curryja | 680 comments

by Judith Curry

Since the early 1990s, sea level rose at a mean rate of ~3.1 mm yr−1. However, over the last decade a slowdown of this rate, of about 30%, has been recorded. – Cazenave et al.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Coal and the IPCC

Posted on April 22, 2014 by curryja | 210 comments

by Dave Rutledge

Now that Working Group 3 has put its chapters on line, all six thousand pages of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report have arrived. Coal is the specter that looms.

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Posted in Energy

The case for blunders

Posted on April 21, 2014 by curryja | 538 comments

by Judith Curry

Science is not concerned only with things that we understand. The most exciting and creative parts of science are concerned with things that we are still struggling to understand. Wrong theories are not an impediment to the progress of science. They are a central part of the struggle. – Freeman Dyson

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Posted in History

In defense of free speech

Posted on April 19, 2014 by curryja | 616 comments

by Judith Curry

If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that. – Mark Steyn

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Posted in Skeptics

Worst case scenario versus fat tail

Posted on April 18, 2014 by curryja | 383 comments

by Judith Curry

If we omit discussion of tail risk, are we really telling the whole truth?

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Posted in Uncertainty

Climate change: what we don’t know

Posted on April 17, 2014 by curryja | 297 comments

by Judith Curry

This past week, there have been several essays and one debate that provide some good perspectives on what we don’t know about climate change, and whether we should be alarmed.

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Posted in Skeptics

Forest climate and condensation

Posted on April 15, 2014 by curryja | 325 comments

by Douglas Sheil

Despite major investments in incorporating land cover in climate simulation models, much remains uncertain, especially concerning the influence of land-cover change on cloud cover and rain.

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Posted in Uncategorized

El Nino watch

Posted on April 14, 2014 by curryja | 226 comments

by Judith Curry

All eyes are on the tropical Pacific Ocean

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Posted in Uncategorized

Curry versus Trenberth

Posted on April 11, 2014 by curryja | 431 comments

by Judith Curry

At the Conference for World Affairs, in Boulder Colorado.

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Posted in Attribution, Data and observations

Are academia and publishing destroying scientific innovation?

Posted on April 8, 2014 by curryja | 598 comments

by Judith Curry

It is alarming that so many Nobel Prize recipients have lamented that they would never have survived this current academic environment. What are the implications of this on the discovery of future scientific paradigm shifts and scientific inquiry in general?

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Posted in Uncategorized

End of climate exceptionalism

Posted on April 4, 2014 by curryja | 476 comments

by Judith Curry

A new report from the IPCC implies that “climate exceptionalism”, the notion that global warming is a problem like no other, is coming to an end. – Economist

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy

Evidence of absence versus absence of evidence

Posted on April 1, 2014 by curryja | 479 comments

By Judith Curry

Does global warming make extreme weather events worse?

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Posted in Attribution, Scientific method

IPCC AR5 WG2 Report – draft SPM

Posted on March 30, 2014 by curryja | 790 comments

by Judith Curry

The WG2 Report will be officially released on Monday. Here is what people are saying about a leaked version of the Summary for Policy Makers.

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Posted in Climate change impacts

Inconvenient truth of carbon offsets

Posted on March 28, 2014 by curryja | 289 comments

by Judith Curry

Kevin Anderson explains why he refused to purchase a carbon offset, and why you should steer clear of them too.

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Posted in Policy

Trial of the century?

Posted on March 25, 2014 by curryja | 550 comments

BBC Newshour: Judith Curry and Bob Ward debate Steyn versus Mann

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550 Comments

Posted in Communication, Ethics

EconTalk: Christy and Emanuel

Posted on March 24, 2014 by curryja | 235 comments

by Judith Curry

John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about climate change.

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Posted in Uncategorized