Monthly Archives: August 2013

Judith Curry is blown away?

Posted on August 30, 2013 by

Judith Curry, a professional climate scientist who writes the Climate Etc. blog, is apparently blown away by a recent paper in Nature. The paper is by Yu Kosaka and Shang-Ping Xie and is called Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial … Continue reading →

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Watt about the 97% consensus, again?

Posted on August 28, 2013 by

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has another post about John Cook’s consensus paper. I must admit that I find this all a little odd. In my experience, if people think a paper is ridiculously wrong, they typically just ignore it. … Continue reading →

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Watt about the bell curve?

Posted on August 28, 2013 by

I should start this post by saying how hard I am finding it to maintain my tagline of trying to keep the discussion civil. I think it’s virtually impossible and I now completely understand why some don’t bother. I should … Continue reading →

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Watt about sticking it to the Mann?

Posted on August 26, 2013 by

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a new post by Lord Christopher Monckton called Sticking it to the Mann. In this post, Christopher Monckton responds to Michael Mann’s recent Richmond Time’s Dispatch article. I would explain why what Christopher says … Continue reading →

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Watt about the Magellan telescope?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a recent post called new telescope brings the power of Hubble down to Earth. It’s really a press release from the University of Arizona about recent results using the new MagAO system on the … Continue reading →

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Watt about the blog spawn?

Posted on August 24, 2013 by

I notice Anthony Watts has a new page dedicated to his Blog Spawn. This includes myself, HotWhopper, Wotts Up With That, Vvatts Up With That, and Whats Up With That Watts. Anthony comments that In any successful enterprise, there will … Continue reading →

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Science and belief

Posted on August 24, 2013 by

There’s a common statement made by people on both sides of the global warming/climate change debate. It goes something like this Science isn’t about belief, it’s about evidence. The basic argument is that you don't believe the science, you consider … Continue reading →

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Alarmist, really?

Posted on August 23, 2013 by

I haven’t really had a chance to post anything today and there isn’t anything in particular that I feel like writing about. I thought I would post what is quite an amazing item from RT, Russia’s 24 hour english news … Continue reading →

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Watt about doubling the burn?

Posted on August 22, 2013 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Watt about the 95% certainty?

Posted on August 21, 2013 by

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 since the 1950. … Continue reading →

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