Monthly Archives: February 2012
Biological Aerosol Particles Are A Larger Climate Forcing Than Considered By The IPCC – A New Paper “Primary Biological Aerosol Particles In The Atmosphere: A Review” By Després Et al 2012
I was alerted to this new paper by M. Andreae. It presents evidence of yet another climate forcing which has not been adequately examined in the IPCC reports. It makes understanding climate processes even more difficult. The new paper is … Continue reading
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An Example Of The Reasons That Skillful Multi-Decadal Predictions Of Climate Change Has Not Been Achieved – “Long Tails In Regional Surface Temperature Probability Distributions With Implications For Extremes Under Global Warming” By Ruff and Neelin 2012
The recognition that the models need to skillfully predict changes in the statistics of climate variables (and they have not in hindcasts), if properly recognized by the IPCC impacts assessment group, would have major implications. So far they have mostly ignored this issue when … Continue reading
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Bob Tisdale’s Book “If the IPCC was Selling Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop Their Deceptive Ads?”
Bob Tisdale has published a book based on his insightful weblog posts, titled and available from If the IPCC was Selling Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop Their Deceptive Ads? His book is discussed at Watts Up … Continue reading
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Guest Post By Madhav Khandekar – “Record Grain Yield Estimated By Indian PM For 2011/12″
Madhav Khandekar requested posting the following information on Indian agriculture Record Grain Yield estimated by Indian PM for 2011/12 by Madhav Khandekar India’s PM Mr Manmohan Singh announced in New Delhi on February 20th that India expects a record grain yield of about 250 Million … Continue reading
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E-Mail Interaction With Chris Colose Of The University Of Albany (SUNY)
Chris Colose of the University of Wisconsin [Chris e-mailed this afternoon 2/24/2012] and said he is currently at the University of Albany (SUNY)]. Chris had alerted me to a post that he presented on Skeptical Science titled Tropical Thermostats and Global Warming … Continue reading
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A Proposal “Comparison Of GHCN Temperature Anomalies And Trends With Long Term Fluxnet Temperature Anomalies And Trends”
We [Markus Reichstein and I] have been unsucessful in obtaining funding for the proposal below, so I have posted to encourage others to pursue it. It builds on the issue of station siting quality that we discuss in our paper Fall, … Continue reading
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A Climate Science Post On September 4 2011 Involving Peter Gleick
On September 4 2011 I posted Hatchet Job On John Christy and Roy Spencer By Kevin Trenberth, John Abraham and Peter Gleick I have reposted below since the recent behavior (e.g. see) of Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific … Continue reading
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New Paper “Ocean Heat Content And Earth’s Radiation Imbalance II. Relation To Climate Shifts” By Douglass And Knox 2012
I am pleased to announce a very important new paper which effectively uses the ocean heat data analyses to assess shifts in the Earth’s radiation imbalance. The paper is D.H. Douglass, R.S. Knox, 2012: Ocean heat content and Earth’s radiation imbalance. II. … Continue reading
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The Misuse Of The Scientific Method – A Nature Geoscienes Article “Changes In Hail And Flood Risk In High-Resolution Simulations Over Colorado’s Mountains” By Mahoney Et Al 2012
Recently, there were two articles in Nature Geosciences which concluded, based on multi-decadal climate model predictions, that there would not be hail in Colorado by the end of the current century. This study illustrates the misuse of the scientific method … Continue reading
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An NRC Study “A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling” – A Missed Opportunity
There is an NRC project underway that is titled “A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling” The Statement of Tasks is reproduced below [highlight added[ Statement of Task Climate models are the foundation for understanding and projecting climate and climate-related … Continue reading
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