Tag Archives: Energy imbalance

Are feedbacks operating?

Posted on June 20, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

I’ve been pondering today if being anonymous means that others think it’s okay to be rude and unpleasant, or if they are simply rude and unpleasant. I’m tending towards the latter and have seen nothing to convince me otherwise. A … Continue reading →

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We’ve all forgotten about the oceans!

Posted on May 7, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

I recently wrote a blog post about Roger Pielke Sr’s guest post on Climate etc. in which he was suggesting an alternative metric to assess global warming. Roger was essentially suggesting that we should be using the ocean heat content … Continue reading →

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A two-box model

Posted on March 21, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

In an attempt to learn something about climate modelling, I decided to write a little two-box climate model. I found quite a lot of useful information on Tamino’s blog, Arthur Smith’s blog, Isaac Held’s blog, Lucia’s blackboard and from Kevin … Continue reading →

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Judith Curry and the Ocean Heat Content

Posted on January 22, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

Judith Curry has a new post about Ocean heat content uncertainties. The post itself seems to just be the standard uncertainty monster rearing it’s ugly head. Maybe it is too soon to be confident about anything. Maybe there are still … Continue reading →

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The missing heat

Posted on January 16, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

It seems that a number of people are talking about a recent Nature News Feature that discusses missing heat, or why surface temperatures have risen slowly for the last 16 years or so. An explanation for the supposed “hiatus” that … Continue reading →

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Putting the atomic bombs into perspective

Posted on December 18, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I’ve been trying to avoid discussing the whole comparison between atomic bombs and global warming. I initially didn’t have a problem with it as I always perceived it as an energy comparison. However, I recognise that there are aspects that … Continue reading →

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And then there’s the energy imbalance

Posted on December 8, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There are a few things I have been considering writing about, but since I’ve renamed the blog to be more explicitly physics orientated, I thought the first should at least reflect that change. There’s a recent paper by James Hansen … Continue reading →

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Watt is up with Roger Pielke Sr

Posted on October 23, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I wasn’t going to write another post today but I’ve just come across a new Watts Up With That (WUWT) post by Roger Pielke Sr. The title of the post is Radiative Forcing, Radiative Feedbacks and Radiative Imbalance – The … Continue reading →

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What matters is the radiative imbalance

Posted on October 16, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I started this blog because I was getting frustrated by how often I saw scientific claims being made, with regards to global warming, that were just simply wrong. I was following, and partially involved with, a brief exchange between Joanne … Continue reading →

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“Global warming” vs “Global heating”

Posted on September 7, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was a little surprised by some of the views expressed in the comments on my previous post. I had assumed that it was fairly obvious that the term “global warming” should really be used to refer to the overall … Continue reading →

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