Category Archives: IPCC

The secretive Royal Society

Posted on December 1, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I wrote. a couple of days ago, about Nigel Lawson’s meeting with the Royal Society. The meeting was apparently held under Chatham House Rules. This means that those involved can use the information presented at the meeting but cannot disclose … Continue reading →

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IPCC WG1 video release

Posted on November 24, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Reiner Grundmann has posted, on Die Klimazwiebel, a video from the IPCC that summarises the Working Group 1 report. I watched it and thought it was alright. Seemed to do a pretty good job of presenting the scientific evidence. Reiner … Continue reading →

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Watt about the CO2 residence time?

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

Watts Up With That (WUWT) has a recent post by Christopher Monckton called On CO2 residence times – the chicken or the egg. Ths post discusses the bombtest curve shown in the figure below. This curve shows the decay of … Continue reading →

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What will they think?

Posted on November 15, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I often wonder what people, in the future, will make of the overall coverage of global warming and climate change today. We’ve just released the first chapters of the IPCC’s Assessment Report 5, written by 100s of climate scientists. It … Continue reading →

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Typhoon Haiyan

Posted on November 11, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Typhoon Haiyan, that hit the Philippines a few days ago, seems to have been a truly devastating event. Maybe as many as 10000 dead and more than a million needing aid and support. I will even give a hat-tip to … Continue reading →

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No, David Stockwell, it’s not the Sun

Posted on November 5, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

A few days ago I posted a video that, in less than 4 minutes, rebutted 10 common climate myths. The most amusing was the emphatic No to the claim that it’s because the Sun is getting hotter. To a certain … Continue reading →

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Watt about David Stockwell?

Posted on November 1, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There is a new post a Watts Up With That (WUWT) called a a sea change for climate science. It’s by David Stockwell who is, apparently, an Adjunct Researcher at the Central Queensland University. David starts with Climate models can … Continue reading →

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A few things

Posted on October 31, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I haven’t really had anything particular to say for the last day or so, so thought I would just write a post with a few thoughts. Having given the moderation issue some more thought, the main change I will be … Continue reading →

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MODTRAN

Posted on October 25, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Chris suggested that maybe I should summarise yesterday’s discussion with Roger Pielke Sr. I may do that but I think I would first need to give it some thought, and I also need to catch my breath slightly. However, as … Continue reading →

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Okay, Roger, an acknowledgement

Posted on October 24, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I wrote, yesterday, a rather snarky – and insulting – post about what I thought was an embarrassing blunder by Roger Pielke Sr in his recent WUWT post. Roger responded with the following tweet Misinterpretation by @wottsupwiththat See http://t.co/fADmzTu23T and … Continue reading →

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