Tag Archives: Climate models

An acknowledgement, but not really a correction

Posted on October 20, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

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 →

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Watt about deterministic chaos?

Posted on July 28, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s a recent paper in the Journal of the American Meteorological Society called An Evaluation of the Software System Dependency of a Global Atmospheric Model. The paper considers global atmospheric numerical model on machines with different hardware and software systems … Continue reading →

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Watt about the failure of the climate models?

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

There is an interesting news item in Nature about how an attempt to do short-term climate modelling has been largely unsuccessful. The article says In preparation for the IPCC report, the first part of which is due out in September, … Continue reading →

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Sympathy for the climate models?

Posted on June 20, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There was a comment on one of my previous posts suggesting that I should stop being “sympathetic” towards climate models since, without criticism, climate scientists will never put any effort into correcting the problems with their models. The suggestion being … Continue reading →

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Hmm, Willis tries to be clever again!

Posted on May 22, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Willis Eschenbach has a new post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called Model climate sensitivity calculated directly from model results. HotWhopper has already covered this in a new post, but I thought I would add my two cents worth … Continue reading →

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Roy Spencer on the Global Warming Slowdown.

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

The latest post on Watts Up With That links to a post by Roy Spencer called Global Warming Slowdown: The view from Space. In this he compares the model estimates for the temperature of the lower troposphere with satellite measurements … Continue reading →

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