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- Ryan Maue on Temperature Anomalies Sat, 25 Dec 21, 1:00pmTogether, comparing small areas of temperature anomalies on different parts of the globe is doubly misleading, a cardinal sin.
- Rethinking Climate, Climate Change, and Their Relationship with Water Tue, 23 Mar 21, 4:00pmNew open access paper by Prof. Demetris Koutsoyiannis Abstract We revisit the notion of climate, along with its historical evolution, tracing the origin of the modern concerns about climate. The…
- The Laws of Averages: Part 3, The Average Average Tue, 25 Jul 17, 3:00amGuest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is the third and last in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse. My interest is in the logical and scientific errors, the informational errors, that can...
- Peer Review; Last Refuge of the (Uninformed) Troll Mon, 30 Dec 13, 11:00amCurrent peer review science, by attempting to explain away model failure, in fact confirms that the science is wrong Guest essay by David M. Hoffer It has become a favorite tactic amongst trolls to declare their belief in...
- New paper: climate models short on ‘physics required for realistic simulation of the Earth system’ Fri, 29 Nov 13, 3:31amI’m pleased to have had a chance to to review this new paper just published in the Journal of Climate: An Evaluation of Decadal Probability Forecasts from State-of-the-Art Climate Models Suckling, Emma B., Leonard A....
- A hilarious view of Climategate I’ve never read before Wed, 27 Nov 13, 1:46amScientific understanding and faith simultaneously on display: ‘For climatologists, the search for an irrefutable “sign” of anthropogenic warming has assumed an almost Biblical intensity.’ –...
- Ooops – Met Office decadal model forecast for 2004-2014 falls flat Fri, 22 Nov 13, 8:44am‘The Pause’ claims another victim. Source: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2004/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2004/trend:2004 Paul Matthews writes: The skillful predictions of climate science Smith et...
- September doldrums – solar slump continues Tue, 8 Oct 13, 2:59amWhile many science related government agencies are shut down (NASA GISS is deemed ‘non-essential’ for example) some remain open due to statements like this: Due to the Federal Government shutdown, NOAA.gov and...
- IPCC Climate: A Product of Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Built On Inadequate Data Thu, 3 Oct 13, 4:00amGuest essay by Dr. Tim Ball “If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess” – Ronald Coase. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. – Anonymous. Climatology is the...
- Uh, oh. It’s models all the way down Thu, 19 Sep 13, 11:16pmDr. Judith Curry lets an announcement slip in comments. My understanding of climate is not helped much by climate models. Stay tuned, our big paper on natural internal climate variability just got accepted by Climate Dynamics...
- National Academy of Sciences: climate models still ‘decades away’ from being useful Sat, 14 Sep 13, 9:07amFrom the National Academy of Sciences report A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling: Computer models that simulate the climate are an integral part of providing climate information, in particular for future changes...
- Another uncertainty for climate models – different results on different computers using the same code Sun, 28 Jul 13, 3:54amNew peer reviewed paper finds the same global forecast model produces different results when run on different computers Did you ever wonder how spaghetti like this is produced and why there is broad disagreement in the output...
- Two years to a 1740-type event? Wed, 19 Jun 13, 1:19pmGuest essay by David Archibald Wiggle-matching has been used by the best. Hubert Lamb, considered to be the most meticulous climatologist of all time, used wiggle-matching in this wind data graph he published in 1988: He...
- Quite possibly the dumbest example of ‘Tabloid Climatology’ ever from Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman Wed, 19 Jun 13, 4:24amAndrew Freedman writes in this Tabloid Climatology™ piece at Climate Central: When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on October 29, 2012, the dark waters of Flushing Bay poured over the edges of LaGuardia Airport, flooding...
- Quote of the week – a pause for cooling off Mon, 17 Jun 13, 3:35amFrom Dr. Judith Curry: This period since 2002 is scientifically interesting, since it coincides with the ‘climate shift’ circa 2001/2002 posited by Tsonis and others. This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend...