Tag Archives: Global warming

A lower climate sensitivity from Ring et al.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

I was wondering if anyone had any particular insights into the Ring et al. (2012) paper Causes of the Global Warming Observed since the 19th Century? The study use a simple climate model (SCM) to model the change in global … Continue reading →

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Myles Allen’s proposal to bury the carbon problem

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Rachel M

A guest post by Rachel ———————————— Because Wotts is very busy at the moment and because I’m quite keen for a post about Myles Allen’s proposal to bury carbon and because Wotts, I think, has quite different views to me … 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 AMS?

Posted on November 21, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There’s a recent post on Watts Up With That (WUWT) called the 97% consensus myth busted by a real survey. It discusses a recent paper that reports on Meteorologists’ views about global warming. The survey was of all American Meteorologial … Continue reading →

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Statistically derived human influences

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

I came across a paper today that I thought I might highlight here. It’s in Nature Geosciences, the authors are Francisco Estrada, Pierre Perron & Benjamin Martinez-Lopez, and the paper is called Statistically derived contributions of diverse human influences to … Continue reading →

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Doh!

Posted on November 19, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Bjorn Lomborg has a new article in The Times called At last, a Plan B to stop global warming. It’s paywalled, so I read it here. What Bjorn suggests is not only brilliant, but it’s so simple that it’s a … Continue reading →

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Matt Ridley on Optimism

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

Like Sou, I too watched the video of Matt Ridley in Oz. My first thought was fairly similar to the first comment, from Chandra, on Bishop Hill’s post about the video I imagine readers already know and adore Ridley’s line … 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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Global warming underestimated

Posted on November 13, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Given that Rachel has published three posts today, I feel that it would be okay to reblog one of them. The video in this post is very interesting and suggests that the supposed “hiatus” (which refers to surface warming only) … Continue reading →

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Value-free science?

Posted on November 8, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Reiner Grundmann has a new post on Die Klimazwiebel discussing whether or not philosophy can enlighten climate science. Reiner also has an earlier post about the same topic. As far as I can tell, the basic argument seems to be … Continue reading →

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