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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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Observational constraints on the ECS

Posted on October 3, 2013 by

Correction I knew I was taking a bit of a risk writing this (as I pointed out at the beginning anyway) as there was a reasonable chance that I misunderstood something fundamental. Unsurprisingly, this appears to be true. I may … Continue reading →

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The Only Way Not To Lose Is to Play

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

In Climateball, the only way to lose is not to play. Consequently the only way not to lose is to play. Continue reading →

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No, stabilising emissions will not stabilise concentrations!

Posted on December 17, 2016 by

I’ve written before about stabilising temperatures; stabilising temperatures requires getting net anthropogenic emissions pretty close to zero. See, for example, this Realclimate post, or Solomon et al. (2008). Stabilising atmospheric concentrations, however, would not require getting emissions to zero, but … Continue reading →

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Peter Doran on the 97%.

Posted on December 22, 2014 by

Since I haven’t written about the 97% for some time, I thought I would post this video of Peter Doran’s TEDx talk about Bringing opinions on climate change closer to reality. There are a couple of things I found interesting … Continue reading →

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Roy Spencer and the Cornwall Alliance

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

Roy Spencer has a new post called Still Epic Fail: 73 Climate Models versus Measurements. In this post Roy gloats at the apparent fact that all the models predict much higher mid-troposphere temperatures than is observed by satellites or by … Continue reading →

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Richard Tol’s second draft

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

So I’ve had a look through the second draft of Richard Tol’s paper Qunatifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the literature:a comment. It doesn’t seem to have changed much, so I stand by much of what I said … Continue reading →

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