Tag Archives: pause

There was no “pause” in global warming!

Posted on December 19, 2018 by ...and Then There's Physics

There are a couple of new papers that essentially analyse the various analyses of the supposed “pause” in global warming. One, lead by James Risbey considers fluctuation[s] in surface temperature in historical context: reassessment and retrospective on the evidence. The … Continue reading →

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David Whitehouse is very confused

Posted on July 1, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

David Whitehouse, who is Science editor for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, has an article in the The Spectator, apparently presenting the truth about the global warming pause. It is, to be polite, very confused. For starters, it defines the … Continue reading →

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One graph to rule them all

Posted on November 24, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

Given that I’ve written a number of posts about the so-called “pause”, I thought I would mention a recent paper by Lewandowsky, Risbey & Oreskes called On the definition and identifiability of the alleged “hiatus” in global warming. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Certainty and meaning?

Posted on June 8, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s a new paper in Nature Climate Change by Greg Hollin and Warren Pearce called Tension between scientific certainty and meaning complicates communication of IPCC reports. You can read more about it in this Making Science Public post. Let me … Continue reading →

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No “pause”?

Posted on June 5, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

I wasn’t going to write a whole post on this, but what I thought I would do is simply provide links to those that have. Doug’s McNeall’s blog. RealClimate. International Surface Temperature Initiative. BBC, with – IMO – a sensible … Continue reading →

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Guest post: Climate variability research: did the sceptics make us do it?

Posted on May 12, 2015 by ...and Then There's Physics

This is a guest post by Prof. Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office, about Lewandowsky et al’s forthcoming paper, which suggests that climate skeptics influence climate scientists. The post speaks for itself, so I won’t say … Continue reading →

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A “hiatus” in some people’s “skepticism”?

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

There’s a new paper doing the rounds of the blogosphere, called Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration. Judith Curry has a post about it. The basic result of the paper is that the “missing heat” is … Continue reading →

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Understanding the “pause”

Posted on August 19, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

I thought I might briefly highlight a recent paper that tries to understand what some call “the pause”, but which isn’t really a “pause” as nothing has actually stopped. The paper is Natural variability, radiative forcing and climate response in … Continue reading →

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Paws for thought!

Posted on March 1, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

To follow up on my Pause for thought? post, I thought I might highlight a video that Brigitte mentioned in one of the comments. The issue I have with using the term “pause”, when referring to the slowdown in surface … Continue reading →

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Pause for thought?

Posted on February 26, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s a cleverly worded commentary in Nature Climate Change by Ed Hawkins, Tamsin Edwards, and Doug McNeall called Pause for thought. The article starts with The recent slowdown (or ‘pause’) in global surface temperature rise is a hot topic for … Continue reading →

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