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Watt about climate models running way too hot?
Bjorn Lomborg has a new Guest essay on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called climate models are running way too hot. The post says Over the past 30 years, they are at least predicting 71% too much heat....
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What will 2°C feel like?
Reblogged from Honeybees&Helium: Surprisingly, the most common question I get asked isn’t about whether climate change is happening. More typically, people are curious about how I feel about...
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Watt about the 100:1?
I really thought that maybe Watts Up With That (WUWT) was keeping quiet about Topher Field’s 50-to-1 video project because they’d realised just how silly the actual calculation was. Oh, how wrong I...
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A crisis in climate science?
Reiner Grundmann has a post on Die Klimazwiebel called the coming crisis of climate science? I don’t really know what to make of the post overall. As far as I’m aware, Reiner Grundmann is a...
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Moderation
I thought I would write a brief post about this site’s moderation policy, or lack thereof. As I may have said before, starting this blog was all a rather spur of the moment decision and I didn’t really...
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The CO2 control knob fallacy?
Judith Curry has a recent post called CO2 ‘control knob’ fallacy (?). Admittedly there is a bracketed question mark at the end, but I get the impression that Judith thinks that using the term ‘control...
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The economic benefits of climate change?
Writing about this is definitely outside my comfort zone, so this post should not be seen as something from which others could learn but maybe a way for me to learn via the comments. There have been...
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Watt about wondering Willis Eschenbach?
Firstly, credit to Sou at HotWhopper for the wondering part of the title. It seems too apt to not use it. It appears that either Willis Eschenbach is back from his tour of Great Britain or he’s had a...
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Watt about Roger Pielke Jr?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a Weekly climate and energy news roundup in which they normally include a quote of the week. This week’s quote is by Roger Pielke Jr and is A difficult question for the...
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xkcd – physicists
This cartoon, brought to my attention by John Havery Samuel, seems quite apt given what I sometimes try to do. Also, a little self-mockery is always a good thing. credit : xkcd
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Value-free science?
Reiner Grundmann has a new post on Die Klimazwiebel discussing whether or not philosophy can enlighten climate science. Reiner also has an earlier post about the same topic. As far as I can tell, the...
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Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan, that hit the Philippines a few days ago, seems to have been a truly devastating event. Maybe as many as 10000 dead and more than a million needing aid and support. I will even give a...
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Watt about Spencer and Braswell?
There’s a new post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called New study – climate system is only about half as sensitive to increasing CO2 as previously believed. It refers to a new paper by Roy Spencer and...
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No trend?
I ended up in a brief Twitter exchange yesterday with Roger Pielke Jr. He had responded to a tweet from Jeffrey D. Sachs with the following Wrong @JeffDSachs Attached figure from paper you (mis)cite...
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Global warming underestimated
Reblogged from quakerattled:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJR3ywIijo&w=640&h=390] Three posts in one day! I must be procrastinating. But I just have to share this youtube video...
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Salby comment 1
Murry Salby has now completed his tour of Britain and there have been a few posts discussing his presentations. Some positive, others not. I’ll be quite honest and say that I think Salby’s ideas are...
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What will they think?
I often wonder what people, in the future, will make of the overall coverage of global warming and climate change today. We’ve just released the first chapters of the IPCC’s Assessment Report 5,...
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Matt Ridley on Optimism
Like Sou, I too watched the video of Matt Ridley in Oz. My first thought was fairly similar to the first comment, from Chandra, on Bishop Hill’s post about the video I imagine readers already know and...
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Doh!
Bjorn Lomborg has a new article in The Times called At last, a Plan B to stop global warming. It’s paywalled, so I read it here. What Bjorn suggests is not only brilliant, but it’s so simple that it’s...
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Statistically derived human influences
I came across a paper today that I thought I might highlight here. It’s in Nature Geosciences, the authors are Francisco Estrada, Pierre Perron & Benjamin Martinez-Lopez, and the paper is called...
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