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Watt about the Tol Poll?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) is promoting (The Tol Poll – rating climate denizens) an online poll put together by Richard Tol that asks volunteers to rate a group of people on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 is...
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Watt about falsifiability?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a recent post called Mann on mathematics, alcohol and “proof”. The post discusses a recent comment by Michael Mann in which he says Proof is for mathematical theorems and...
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The Deficit model vs the Asset model
I had an interesting discussion on Twitter today with Brigitte Nerlich about the Deficit model and the Asset model of science communication. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what these terms meant...
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Back to work
So, I’m back to work today after another week off. This time, however, I really do need to knuckle down and get things done. I suspect that I will have less time for reading about and writing about...
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Can the ECS be less than 2 degrees?
I thought I would post this video of a talk by A.E. Dessler, that’s being doing the rounds. You may all already have seen it. I saw it first at Rabett Run. The video basically discusses whether or not...
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Areas of expertise and climate modelling
Someone (I forget who) yesterday tweeted a link to a paper called Climate models, Calibration and Confirmation by Katie Steele and Charlotte Werndl. I haven’t read the paper in detail and this post...
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Watt about Monckton and the AGU?
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has released a statement on climate change in which they state Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years. Rapid...
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Watt about the most ironic post title of them all?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a new post called Climate persuasion – or how to ignore data and influence people. I had to laugh when I read this post title since if anyone asked me to describe WUWT in...
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Watt about CO2 levels?
Anthony Watts has a new post at Watts Up With That (WUWT) called an illustration that CO2 won’t roast the Earth in a runaway tipping point. He shows the following figure which illustrates atmospheric...
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Guest post : Watt about a mole at Al Gore’s course?
Recently Anthony Watts published a guest post by someone who claimed to have been a mole in Al Gore’s Climate Leadership Training. As you might imagine, the mole is quite critical of Al Gore’s climate...
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Atmospheric CO2 lifetime
The Hockey Schtick appears to be excited about a new paper that finds that the lifetime of CO2 in atmosphere is only 5.4 years. This appears to actually be an abstract for a conference presentation,...
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Regaining trust?
There seem to have been a number of articles and posts recently that have mentioned public trust in climate scientists. There was Tamsin Edwards’s article in the Guardian. After criticising John Cook’s...
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Guest Post : Collin Maessen on why language matters
Collin Maessen, who runs the Real Sceptic site, offered to write a guest post about “words and how we use them”. This is an interesting topic in itself, but particularly relevant for the climate...
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Andrew Dessler on decision making
I thought I would post this video of Andrew Dessler discussing decision making. I think it’s very good, but others have – of course – disagreed. He uses an analogy in which 97% of mechanics say a plane...
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Roger Pielke Sr and Douglass & Knox
I had a brief Twitter exchange with Roger Pielke Sr. yesterday. I had commented that I thought the AGU position statement on human-induced climate change was very good, and he wanted to know what was...
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Making Science Public
I wasn’t sure whether to write about this as I’m unsure of what to make of it and there may be subtleties that I’ve missed. Bearing that in mind, I will go ahead anyway. The University of Nottingham...
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Why should we be concerned?
There’s been quite a lot of discussion recently about representing global warming as equivalent to 4 Hiroshima bombs per second. Making Science Public had a recent post by Warren Pearce called more...
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Watt about the cyclones and the tornadoes?
Watts Up With That, has a couple of new posts, one claiming that 2013 is a record low year for US tornadoes and a second about a paper that suggests a decrease of tropical cyclones. The post about...
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Watt about the 95% certainty?
It has been suggested that the forthcoming IPCC AR5 report will claim that it is at least 95% percent likely that human activities – chiefly the burning of fossil fuels – are the main cause of warming...
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Watt about doubling the burn?
Willis Eschenbach has a new post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called Double the burn – Scotty. In this post he calculates how much we would need to increase our use of fossil fuels in order for the per...
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