Monthly Archives: April 2016

Climate Feedback

Posted on April 29, 2016 by

Climate Feedback is a site on which scientists grade articles about climate science. Not only do they provide comments, they also give a final grade, indicating the scientific credibility. For example, Chris Mooney’s article on what we’re doing to the … Continue reading →

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Airborne fraction

Posted on April 28, 2016 by

Given the recent news that the rise in CO2 has greened the planet, I can see a new “skeptic” meme appearing. Essentially, I can see them arguing that both climate sensitivity is too high, and that nature will take up … Continue reading →

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Matt Ridley doesn’t understand free speech

Posted on April 26, 2016 by

Matt Ridley is, once again, complaining that the climate change lobby wants to kill free speech (you can read it here). What it mainly seems to illustrate is that Matt Ridley doesn’t really understand the concept of free speech. One … Continue reading →

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The TCR-to-ECS ratio

Posted on April 24, 2016 by

Something I’ve been interested in is whether or not the ratio between the Transient Climate Response (TCR) and the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS) best estimates from most of Nic Lewis’s work makes sense. Typically his TCR best estimate is around … Continue reading →

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We can never “know” anything

Posted on April 18, 2016 by

Judith Curry has waded into the consensus discussion by highlighting a post written by two people I’ve never heard of and – from what I can find – have no actual expertise in this topic whatsoever. Apparently the key point … Continue reading →

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Time dependent feedbacks

Posted on April 17, 2016 by

There’s a very interesting new paper by Gregory and Andrews called Variation in climate sensitivity and feedback parameters during the historical period. The motivation seems to be to try and reconcile why estimates of the effective climate sensitivity using recent … Continue reading →

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Three years!

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

Yesterday was the third anniversary of me starting this blog. I was going to post something yesterday, but it coincided with the release of our consensus on consensus paper, which seemed like it should take precedence. It’s been a very … Continue reading →

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