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Comment On The 2012 Draft AMS Statement On “Climate Change”
The American Meteorological Society is in the process of finalizing an updated statement on Climate Change. The ability to read the statement is limited to AMS members: Draft Statement Open for Member Comment: Climate Change The stated goal of the … Continue reading
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Comments On “Defending Climate Science” In The January 31 2012 Issue Of EOS
The Jan 31 2012 issue of EOS has the following short news article by Randy Showstack titled Defending climate science The short news article reads [highlight added] The National Center for Science Education (NCSE), which has long been in the lead in defending … Continue reading
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The Huge Waste Of Research Money In Providing Multi-Decadal Climate Projections For The New IPCC Report
Judy Curry has a very important weblog post titled The wrong(?) conversation Part of her text reads [highlight added] The mitigation focus is on global climate and the century time scale, whereas the adaptation focus is regional and on timescales from … Continue reading
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US Goverment Funding Agencies As Gatekeepers
This morning I read Judy Curry’s excellent post Advocacy science and decision making Her post fits with my experience with the National Science Foundation in recent years as I have documented on my weblog (e.g. see). An insightful set of text out … Continue reading
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Advocacy By The National Research Council
I read in the September 27 2011 issue of EOS the article Museum exhibit on climate change draws from National Research Council reports R. Showstack The article starts with the text [highlight added] With all of science to choose from … Continue reading
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My Experiences With A Lack Of Proper Diligence And Bias In The NSF Review Process For Climate Proposals
Recently, I requested information from NSF under the Freedom of Information Act regarding how my recent proposals on the effect of landscape processes on climate were handled. The reason for this request is given below. My experiences, however, may be of more … Continue reading
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The Selective Bias Of NOAA’s National Climate Data Center (NCDC) With Respect To The Analysis And Interpretation Of Multi-Decadal Land Surface Temperature Trends Under The Leadership Of Tom Karl and Tom Peterson
I have posted on the science of our paper Fall, S., A. Watts, J. Nielsen-Gammon, E. Jones, D. Niyogi, J. Christy, and R.A. Pielke Sr., 2011: Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures … Continue reading
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Climate Prediction Advocacy By Shukla Et Al 2010 “Toward a New Generation Of World Climate Research And Computing Facilities”
There is a recent article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that advocates for major funding for climate prediction by well respected climate scientists. The article is J. Shukla, T. N. Palmer, R. Hagedorn, B. Hoskins, J. Kinter, J. Marotzke, … Continue reading
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Advocacy By Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Yangyang Xu In The PNAS In An Article In The Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Science
Dick Lindzen has succinctly summarized how climate science has deteriorated into a tool for political action. As I reported in my post Comments On Numerical Modeling As The New Climate Science Paradigm Dick has written “In brief, we have the new … Continue reading
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Comments On The New National Climate Service
The federal government of the United States has announced the establishment of a National Climate Service; e.g. see the NY Times article by Lauren Morello titled Agency Will Create National Climate Service to Spur Adaptation. The article includes the text “The Obama administration announced … Continue reading
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