Monthly Archives: October 2011
New Paper Just Accepted “The Pacific Sea Surface Temperature” By David H. Douglass 2011
David Douglass has alerted us to a new paper that was just accepted for publication. It extends the results reported in his paper Topology of Earths climate indices and phase-locked states David H. Douglass Physics Letters A 374 (2010) 4164–4168 The new … Continue reading
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Recommended Weblog Post By Bob Tisdale – PRELIMINARY October 2011 SST Anomaly Update
Bob Tisdale has been very effective at keeping us updated on the multi-year surface ocean temperature trends in his posts at Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations His latest post is very much worth reading PRELIMINARY October 2011 SST Anomaly Update … Continue reading
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Two Questions To Skeptical Science Regarding i) The Relation of Global Warming To Climate Change and ii) The Predictive Skill Of Multi-Decadal Global Climate Models
UPDATE November 12 2011: So far Skeptical Science has not responded to my questions. I posted a summary list of titles of the weblog posts over the last few weeks between Climate Science and Skeptical Science, and my conclusion from those interactions in the … Continue reading
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A Literature Debate On The Lack Of Skill Of Global Climate Model Multi-Decadal Predictions As Reported In The Peer Reviewed Literature By Demetris Koutsoyiannis
UPDATE: The papers are now available (h/t to Dan Hughes) ; See the blue Free Access to the right edge and under the titles. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02626667.2011.610758 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02626667.2011.610759 ————————————————- Demetris Koutsoyiannis has provided information on a very informative debate on the quality of … Continue reading
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Candid Comments From Climate Scientists
UPDATE: Paul Voosen has sent the url for his excellent article so everyone can see the story’s quotes situated in their actual context. It is available from http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2011/10/25/1 —————————————————————– There is a news release by Paul Voosen on Greenwire titled Provoked scientists try … Continue reading
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Schedule Of Presentations At The Third Santa Fe Conference On Global and Regional Climate Variability, October 31-November 4, 2011
This promises to be an interesting Conference. The Schedule is presented below. [the formating is not set clear but the titles and presentors should be clear enough]. This meeting will have a diverse set of viewpoints presented. The Third Santa … Continue reading
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New Paper “Origin Of The Arctic Warming In Climate Models” By Chung And Räisänen 2011
There is a new paper [h/t to Dallas Staley] Chung, C. E., and P. Räisänen (2011), Origin of the Arctic warming in climate models, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2011GL049816, in press which presents quite a new perspective on the inability of … Continue reading
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Response To Skeptical Science On A Series Of Weblog Posts
Over the last several weeks, I have been involved with comments and replies on the weblog Skeptical Science (SkS). Despite a rocky start (e.g. see) they finally engaged in constructive interactions, although they still often fell into snarky tones. Here are … Continue reading
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New Paper “Sensitivity Of Distributions Of Climate System Properties To The Surface Temperature Dataset ” By Libardoni and Forest 2011
There is a new paper [h/t to Dallas Staley] Libardoni, A. G., and C. E. Forest (2011), Sensitivity of Distributions of Climate System Properties to the Surface Temperature Dataset, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2011GL049431, in press which presents evidence for a … Continue reading
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Comments And Questions On The BEST Analyses
Update #2 - In response to the comment on the weblog The Way Things Break in the post Initial thoughts on the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature release where my perspective on the BEST research was misstated, I wrote Regarding “Roger Pielke Sr. was … Continue reading
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