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Rachel Squirrel- Rabett Run
- Gasoline consumption, California and USA
- Sea level rise came first for the Vikings, now it's coming for you
- What do physicists want?
- Look Who's Fighting Ocean Acidification
- The My Pillowfication of Twitter
- Posturing
- More Hydrogen Less Methane about the Same HO
- Empathy and denialism
- Give a Man a Solar Lamp
- Eli Rabett's Simple Plan to Relieve the Burdens of Student Loans
- HotWhopper
- The last 10 years are the hottest ever, yet deniers are still in denial
- Victor Venema, climate scientist, valued friend to many
- Email went down, now it's back
- We've got to get serious about climate, we've wasted too much time
- Alert for HotWhopper email subscribers to resubscribe
- Beware of internal conflicts, rivalries and toxic behaviour polluting climate action
- Where to from here?
- Everything climate disinformation from the climate conspiracy-theorists at WattsUpWithThat
- Rating climate science deniers to decide how/if to engage
- Greetings of the season, happy hols, stay safe
- Variable Variability
- One more reason I dislike linking climate change and extinction
- The 10th anniversary of the still unpublished Watts et al. (2012) manuscript
- New German Sovereign Tech Fund will fund open source digital infrastructure to avert the next log4j
- We launched a new group to promote the translation of the scientific literature
- The confusing politics behind John Stossel asking Are We Doomed?
- Antigen rapid tests much less effective for screening than previously thought according to top German virologist Drosten
- New paper: Spanish and German climatologists on how to remove errors from observed climate trends
- Yes, it makes sense not to have diner parties while the schools are still open. Think of it as a Corona contact budget.
- Science Feedback on Steroids
- The deleted chapter of the WMO Guidance on the homogenisation of climate station data
- RealClimate
- Turning a new page[s]
- Unforced Variations: Jun 2023
- Evaluation of GCM simulations with a regional focus.
- CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling
- Unforced variations: May 2023
- A NOAA-STAR dataset is born…
- The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment reports synthesis
- Unforced Variations: Apr 2023
- Some new CMIP6 MSU comparisons
- How not to science
- Open Mind
- Climate denial crock of the week
- “Apocalyptic” Skies as Wildfires Smoke Spreads
- Raise Your Hand if You Knew the Gray Skies, Red Sun, and Asthma Attacks were All Part of Climate Change
- Ethanol Running Out of Gas
- Smokey the Unbearable: Tree Plantations Fueling Wildfires
- Mask Up Again: Wildfire Smoke Casts Pall over Eastern North America
- Complete Series: Farmers Under Attack for Supporting Clean Energy
- Transmission is the Biggest Barrier to Clean Energy
- Not Just the West – Wildfire Smoke Impacting Midwest, East Coast. What are Health Impacts?
- Alps Glaciers Retreat in Shocking Time Lapse
- Climate Walloping Wallets World Wide
- robertscribbler
- OBX Wave Report June 6 — 2-3 Foot on Another Gorgeous Day
- OBX Wave Report June 5 — 2-4 Foot on a Beautiful Day
- OBX Wave Report June 4 — 4-8 Foot With Better Conditions on the Way
- OBX Wave Report June 3 — 1-4 Foot With Another Storm on the Way
- OBX Wave Report June 2 — 2-4 Foot and a Tropical Fizzle
- Leveling Up With Surfing Pumps
- OBX Wave Report June 1 — 2-4 Foot + A Gulf Tropical Depression
- OBX Wave Report May 31 — Stormy With a Slight Chance of Cyclone
- OBX Wave Report May 30 — Fun and Frothy
- OBX Wave Report May 29 — Memorial Day Surfing at Shell Island
- Moyhu
- May global surface TempLS down 0.028°C from April.
- GISS April global temperature down by 0.2°C from March.
- April global surface TempLS down 0.158°C from March.
- Hourly modelling of conversion of USA48 to wind/solar, with costing and optimisation - Updated.
- GISS March global temperature up by 0.23°C from February.
- March global surface TempLS up 0.229°C from February.
- CFACT says Net Zero is impossible? Debunked.
- GISS February global temperature up by 0.11°C from January.
- February global surface TempLS up 0.093°C from January.
- GISS January global temperature up by 0.06°C from December.
- Real Sceptic
- Choosing Alternative Medicine To Treat Cancer Is Deadly
- Why We Became Scientists: Dunderhead
- AGU Fall Meeting Day 1 – Education And Science Outreach
- San Francisco Meet Up & AGU Fall Meeting
- The Big Pharma Cancer Conspiracy
- Activity Trackers Aren’t A Weight Loss Miracle Cure
- Brexit: Emotions Trumped Facts During UK’s Referendum
- Devastating Reply To Richard Tol’s Nonsensus In Peer-Reviewed Journal
- How to hide most of China’s coal consumption
- Willie Soon’s Deliverables
- Musings on Quantitative Palaeoecology
- Resampling Assemblage Counts
- A demo targets plan for reproducible pipelines for Neotoma data
- Reproducibility of high resolution reconstruction – one year on
- Simplistic and Dangerous Models
- COVID-19, climate and the plague of preprints
- Erroneous information … was given
- Making a pollen diagram from Neotoma
- Count sums – the preprint
- Count-less chironomids?
- Tools for a reproducible manuscript
- James’s Empty Blog
- More than just data
- EGU 2022: Back in person
- vEGU2021: A “zoom” into science
- Digital conferences – how might they work?
- EGU 2020: A “chatty” conference
- Post-processing paper background: Do we need new approaches in verification?
- Post-processing paper background: EMD and IQD? What is it about?
- Post-processing paper background: Why do we need verification with uncertain observations?
- Post-processing paper background: Why does sub-sampling work?
- Post-processing paper background: What is sub-sampling?
- Background to “Seasonal statistical-dynamical prediction of the North Atlantic Oscillation by probabilistic post-processing and its evaluation”
- Mallemaroking
- A comment piece on the SROCC
- Hudson Bay is breaking up early
- A trillion tonnes of ice on the move: Iceberg A68A
- Venta Maersk and the Northern Sea Route
- North Water Polynya in Nares Strait is opening
- Iceberg A38 at South Georgia in 2004
- Iceberg A68: You can’t always get what you want
- The Weddell Polynya to 23 November 2017
- Antarctic sea ice November 2017
- Rydberg Peninsula polynya October 2017
- Symptons of the Universe
- Quantum Mechanix
- Quantum Mechanics and Mystics: Who Wooed Whom?
- PhD opening in Nottingham Nanoscience Group: AI & Atoms
- AI vs A-level
- Music by Ch@ – the artist formerly known as Chat GPT
- ChatGPT: Transforming Physics Education?
- Shut Up And Calculate
- When is a bird not a bird? When it’s a brand
- Postdoctoral research position available in Nottingham Nanoscience Group
- Sixty six and six months on, Maiden still a revelation
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Oh no, not again
Somehow a paper arguing that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is mostly natural has managed to pass peer-review. Gavin Schmidt’s already covered it in a Realcimate post. Gavin Cawley’s paper is, in a sense, a pre-emptive response to this new … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, IPCC, Pseudoscience, Research
Tagged anthropogenic emissions, atmospheric CO2, David Archer, Gavin Cawley, Gavin Schmidt, Hermann Harde, IPCC, RealClimate
70 Comments
Intellectual monocultures
I came across an article that I’ve been thinking about for a few days. I thought I would simply post some thoughts. They may not be well-formed, and my views could certainly change. I should say that I got it … Continue reading
Judith Curry confuses laypeople about climate models
Judith Curry has written a report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation called Climate Models for the layman. As you can imagine, the key conclusions is that climate models are not fit for the purpose of justifying political policies to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Judith Curry, Science, The scientific method
Tagged Climate models, GCMs, Global Warming Policy Foundation, GWPF, IPCC, Policy
110 Comments
Not even giving physicists a bad name!
When I’m trying to have a bit of a dig at physicists (of which I’m one) who think they somehow know better than climate scientists, I’ll post the cartoon on the right. When I came across this interview with William … Continue reading
Guest post: On Baselines and Buoys
One of the key criticisms of Karl et al. (2015) is that it used a dataset that adjusted buoy data up to ship data – the suggestion being that, in doing so, they produced more apparent warming than if the … Continue reading
David Rose: From the bizarre to the ridiculous
After last week’s article, in which he produced an extremely misleading figure, David Rose has doubled down with a new article asking how can we trust global warming scientists if the keep twisting the truth? He claims that A landmark … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Research
Tagged Anomalies, Conspiracy theorist, David Rose, Global warming, Hack, John Bates, Karl et al., Mail on Sunday
115 Comments
Messing about with model-obs comparisons
I was just messing about with some model-observation comparisons and just thought I would post some of the results. I don’t claim that I’ve done these properly, so use with care. I will, however, explain what I did, so that … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Science
Tagged CMIP5, GISTemp, HadCRUT4, KNMI Climate Explorer, Met Office, NASA GISS
37 Comments
Doing science
This whole furore about Karl et al. has got me thinking more about how we actually conduct science/research. There is, I think, a perception that doing science/research involves following a fairly well defined set of procedures about which there should … Continue reading
Expose: David Rose does not understand baselines
Never failing to disappoint, David Rose is back with a new expose on how world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data. It refers to a paper published by Karl et al. in 2015 in which … Continue reading
...and Then There's Physics 