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Tag Archives: James Hansen
You only need about 60 surface stations
Since surface temperature changes are correlated over distances of about 1000 km (it does depend somewhat on the latitude of the stations), it turns that you only need about 60 stations to produce a reasonable surface temperature dataset. [Edit: As … Continue reading
No, Hansen wasn’t wrong!
It’s 30 years since James Hansen testified before the US Congress about climate change. In the same year, he published a paper that produced some forecasts. I wasn’t going to write about this as there are a number of articles … Continue reading
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
The TCR-to-ECS ratio
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
Posted in Climate change, Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Global warming, Science
Tagged Climate sensitivity, ECS, Energy balance models, James Hansen, Nic Lewis, TCR, TCRE
78 Comments
Reblog: On Hansen et al.
I haven’t really had a chance to properly read the new Hansen et al. paper (apart from the reviewers, who does?). However, it is clearly a paper that has already had impact and somewhat divided opinions, so I asked Peter … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Science
Tagged ICARUS, James Hansen, Peer-review, Peter Thorne, sea level rise
179 Comments
Extreme events
I had thought of writing about Hansen’s recent paper, but I’m not really sure what to say about it. I did read some of the reviews – Thorne, Archer, Ruddiman – and, unsurprisingly, there appear to be some valid criticisms. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, IPCC
Tagged Climate denial, Extreme events, James Hansen, Michael Kelly
106 Comments
Over-reaction?
There was a fun press release from the University of Bristol about using a Global Circulation Model (GCM) to study the climate of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. A number of people on Twitter (Richard Betts, Gavin Schmidt, Doug MacNeall) seemed to … Continue reading
And then there’s the energy imbalance
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
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Judith Curry, Science
Tagged AGW, Climate change, Energy imbalance, Global warming, James Hansen, Physics, Radiative forcing, Stadium wave
31 Comments
An acknowledgement, but not really a correction
A few days ago I wrote a post (what matters is the radiative imbalance) in which I claimed that a post by David Stockwell was wrong. David made a few comments on my post, claiming that I had made a … Continue reading
Watt about John Cook and the atom bombs?
Not surprisingly, Watts up With That (WUWT) has a post mocking John Cook’s recent quote that the increase in energy associated anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is the same as 4 Hiroshima bombs per second. As I showed in yesterdays’s post, … Continue reading