Monthly Archives: August 2013
Judith Curry is blown away?
Judith Curry, a professional climate scientist who writes the Climate Etc. blog, is apparently blown away by a recent paper in Nature. The paper is by Yu Kosaka and Shang-Ping Xie and is called Recent global-warming hiatus tied to equatorial … Continue reading
Watt about the 97% consensus, again?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) has another post about John Cook’s consensus paper. I must admit that I find this all a little odd. In my experience, if people think a paper is ridiculously wrong, they typically just ignore it. … Continue reading
Watt about the bell curve?
I should start this post by saying how hard I am finding it to maintain my tagline of trying to keep the discussion civil. I think it’s virtually impossible and I now completely understand why some don’t bother. I should … Continue reading
Watt about sticking it to the Mann?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a new post by Lord Christopher Monckton called Sticking it to the Mann. In this post, Christopher Monckton responds to Michael Mann’s recent Richmond Time’s Dispatch article. I would explain why what Christopher says … Continue reading
Watt about the Magellan telescope?
Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a recent post called new telescope brings the power of Hubble down to Earth. It’s really a press release from the University of Arizona about recent results using the new MagAO system on the … Continue reading
Watt about the blog spawn?
I notice Anthony Watts has a new page dedicated to his Blog Spawn. This includes myself, HotWhopper, Wotts Up With That, Vvatts Up With That, and Whats Up With That Watts. Anthony comments that In any successful enterprise, there will … Continue reading
Science and belief
There’s a common statement made by people on both sides of the global warming/climate change debate. It goes something like this Science isn’t about belief, it’s about evidence. The basic argument is that you don't believe the science, you consider … Continue reading
Alarmist, really?
I haven’t really had a chance to post anything today and there isn’t anything in particular that I feel like writing about. I thought I would post what is quite an amazing item from RT, Russia’s 24 hour english news … Continue reading
Watt about doubling the burn?
Willis Eschenbach has a new post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called Double the burn – Scotty. In this post he calculates how much we would need to increase our use of fossil fuels in order for the per … Continue reading
Watt about the 95% certainty?
It has been suggested that the forthcoming IPCC AR5 report will claim that it is at least 95% percent likely that human activities – chiefly the burning of fossil fuels – are the main cause of warming since the 1950. … Continue reading
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