Monthly Archives: June 2010
Invitation On Assessing Three Climate Hypotheses
I presented the post My Further Response To Real Climate’s Gavin Schmidt and Eric Steig where Gavin Schmidt responded with respect to my placement of him as accepting the CO2-dominated human climate forcing perspective in the following exchange on Real Climate Gavin … Continue reading
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Meeting On The Role Of Land Biospheric Processes Within The Climate System
I received another announcment of a meeting which further illustrates that there continues to be a movement to broaden the assessment of the role of humans in the climate system beyond the IPCC narrow focus on the global average radiative … Continue reading
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My Further Response To Real Climate’s Gavin Schmidt and Eric Steig
I continue to be amazed at how Gavin Schmidt and Eric Steig are so convinced of their viewpoints, that they fail to see that their autocratic tenor and tone is turning off many of their colleagues. In my engagement with … Continue reading
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The Forecasting Potential of Complex Models by Antonis Christofides
We are glad to have another guest post by Antonis Christofides (see his earlier post here) Guest Weblog Post By Antonis Christofides If you gave me the following paper after replacing the author’s examples of econometric and energy models with climate models, I … Continue reading
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Comment On Real Climate
Second Update Thursday Evening June 24 2010 Here is the response by Gavin Schmidt [Response: Eric can speak for himself, but other forcings are discussed in WG1 Chapter 2, section 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, through most of chapter 6, and all … Continue reading
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Informative News Article In EOS By Randy Showstack On A Climate Change Debate At The May 2010 EGU General Assembly
There is an informative news article by Randy Showstack in the June 8 2010 issue of EOS. It is titled Great Debate on Climate Change Featured at EGU Meeting [subscription required] The article includes the interesting two contradictory sentences Panelists largely … Continue reading
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Comment On An Error In A Figure Caption In The Statement For Policymakers In The WG1 2007 IPCC Report
While there has been considerable discussion of errors in other working group reports of the 2007 IPCC assessment, there has been little discussion of errors in the WG1 report. I have documented obvious errors of omission (i.e. see) but in this post, … Continue reading
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Comments On The PNAS Article “Expert Credibility In Climate Change” By Anderegg Et Al 2010
An article has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: William R. L. Anderegg, James W. Prall, Jacob Harold, and Stephen H. Schneider:, 2010: Expert credibility in climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. June … Continue reading
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Adaptive Governance and Climate Change – Book Reviewed By Madhav Khandekar
Madhav Khandekar has an informative review of the book “Adaptative Governance and Climate Change” by Ronald D. Brunner and Amanda H. Lynch. The review includes such insightful comments as “The emergence of adaptive governance in recent years at local and regional … Continue reading
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John Christy Presentation On The IPCC Assessment Process
The InterAcademy Council (IAC) committee conducted an independent review of the procedures and processes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on June 15 at McGill University in Montreal. John R. Christy, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Director, Earth … Continue reading
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