UK-US Workshop Part V: Broadening the portfolio of climate information

Posted on March 19, 2014 by | 116 comments

by Judith Curry

This post discusses Workshop presentations on broadening the portfolio of climate information for use in regional adaptation decisions.

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AAAS: What we know

Posted on March 18, 2014 by | 397 comments

by Judith Curry

[W]e present key messages for every American about climate change. – AAAS

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Simplicity amidst complexity (?)

Posted on March 17, 2014 by | 432 comments

by Judith Curry

Isaac Held’s new article in Science raises some interesting questions.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Bonfire of insanity

Posted on March 16, 2014 by | 383 comments

by Judith Curry

Biomass pellets transported from North Carolina, U.S. are shipped 3800 miles to the UK and burned in Drax power station.  Drax is switching to pellets as it is deemed ‘carbon neutral’,  even though it belches out more CO2 than coal.  – from David Rose

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The Art of Science Advice to Government

Posted on March 12, 2014 by | 471 comments

by Judith Curry

Peter Gluckman, New Zealand’s chief science adviser, offers his ten principles for building trust, influence, engagement and independence.

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Posted in Policy

California drought in context

Posted on March 10, 2014 by | 490 comments

by Judith Curry

A changing climate means that weather-related disasters like droughts, wildfires, storms [and] floods are potentially going to be costlier and they’re going to be harsher. – President Obama

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Positioning skeptics

Posted on March 9, 2014 by | 270 comments

by Judith Curry

What use is science to society, if its advocates are not brave enough to point out the nonsense that is produced in the name of the scientific consensus? – Ben Pile

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Posted in Skeptics

Climate sensitivity: technical discussion thread

Posted on March 6, 2014 by | 487 comments

by Judith Curry

The Lewis and Crok paper is stimulating much discussion; unfortunately little of it is technical.  Lets devote a thread to technical discussion on the issues the raise.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Lewis and Crok: Climate less sensitive to CO2 than models suggest

Posted on March 5, 2014 by | 474 comments

by Judith Curry

Nic Lewis and Marcel Crok have published a new report on climate sensitivity.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks

Causes and implications of the pause

Posted on March 4, 2014 by | 432 comments

by Judith A. Curry

My invited talk at the American Physical Society Meeting in Denver.

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Posted in Attribution

Habits of a complex mind

Posted on March 2, 2014 by | 510 comments

by Judith Curry

How to go from reductionist thinking to action based complexity research. 

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Posted in Scientific method

NAS/RS Report on Climate Change: Evidence and Causes

Posted on February 27, 2014 by | 543 comments

by Judith Curry

Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. It is now more certain than ever, based on many lines of evidence, that humans are changing Earth’s climate. – Royal Society

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Posted in Consensus

Berkeley Earth Global

Posted on February 25, 2014 by | 730 comments

by Steve Mosher

We’ve completed the first draft of our global monthly product.

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Posted in Data and observations

Steyn et al. versus Mann

Posted on February 22, 2014 by | 1,142 comments

by Judith Curry

Some significant developments in various lawsuits involving Michael Mann

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Posted in Skeptics

APS reviews its Climate Change Statement

Posted on February 19, 2014 by | 539 comments

by Judith Curry

The American Physical Society (APS) is in the process of reviewing its 2007 Climate Change Statement.  The process itself is remarkable, and I’ve been privileged to participate in the process.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

UK-US Workshop Part IV: Limits of climate models for adaptation decision making

Posted on February 18, 2014 by | 157 comments

by Judith Curry

This post discusses Workshop presentations on the utility of climate models for regional adaptation decisions.

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Posted in Adaptation, climate models

John Kerry’s remarks on climate change

Posted on February 17, 2014 by | 581 comments

by Judith Curry

The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand. We don’t have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.  And in a sense, climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. – John Kerry

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Week in review

Posted on February 15, 2014 by | 690 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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UK-US Workshop Part III: Strategies for robust decision making for climate adaptation

Posted on February 14, 2014 by | 136 comments

by Judith Curry

This post discusses Workshop presentations on methodologies and application examples of decision analytical strategies to support robust decision making on climate adaptation.

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Posted in Adaptation

Magical theories

Posted on February 13, 2014 by | 531 comments

by Judith Curry

[W]e have a field of sort-of-science in which hypotheses are treated as facts because they’re too hard or expensive to test, and there are so many hypotheses that what journalists like to call “leading authorities” disagree with one another daily. – Gary Taubes

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Posted in Scientific method

UK-US Workshop Part II: Perspectives from the private sector on climate adaptation

Posted on February 12, 2014 by | 130 comments

by Judith Curry

Perspectives on climate change adaptation from Coca Cola, SwissRe, and Acclimatise.

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Posted in Adaptation

UK floods in context

Posted on February 11, 2014 by | 358 comments

by Judith Curry

“If we look at the broader base of evidence then we see things that support the premise that climate change has been making a contribution.” – Dame Julia Slingo

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Posted in Extreme events

UK-US Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions

Posted on February 10, 2014 by | 237 comments

by Judith Curry

Last week, I was privileged to host the UK-US Workshop on Climate Science Needed to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions.

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Posted in Adaptation

Week in review

Posted on February 8, 2014 by | 788 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

Livestock’s long shadow

Posted on February 6, 2014 by | 229 comments

by Judith Curry

In all, livestock farming produces 8-18% of greenhouse-gas emissions. It is the main contributor to the build-up of nitrogen and phosphorus in the world’s soils, producing too much ammonia (which is caustic), nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas) and dead zones in oceans (the result of excess phosphorus). – The Economist

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Posted in Climate change impacts