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September 1, 2009
[sorry to be late this week, folks. I am in Australia on business and it took 34 hours to get here and I only got internet access where I am staying just now. Better late than never, no?]
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August 27, 2009
Please place any additional comments/replies about CO2 and H2O and absorption and greenhouse gases etc here...
[Update: I meant additional to the digression on the "did greenpeace lie" thread.]
August 24, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition August 23, 2009 Chuckle…
August 23, 2009
A commenter here brought up the controversy du jour for the denialosphere, how Greenpeace alledgedly admitted lying in a press release. Of course that stretch, (well, it's a stretch to call it a stretch), was further stretched to "Greenpeace just admitted that much of the human-caused global…
August 21, 2009
I had an open thread a couple of weeks ago about Ian Plimer's recent novel supposedly exposing the lie that is Anthropogenic Global Warming.
I have not read it. A few commenter's defending the book asked how anyone can judge it if they have not read it.
Well, no one can read every book that is out…
August 20, 2009
So this is good news for defenders of the fair use principle.
You can, and if you haven't yet should, watch Peter Sinclair's video demolishing Anthony Watts' surfacestations.org embedded below. Watts' complaint of copyright violation was at best a head scratcher and at worst a cynical and childish…
August 17, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... August 16, 2009 Bonn, CPRS…
August 11, 2009
At least this is the standard if you are Roger Pielke Jr and the accused is a member of Real Climate. When pressed as to how he knew an accusation of plagarism he was leveling was really true, in his own words:
if the authors provide evidence [...] I'll stand corrected. [...] Meantime, I am…
August 10, 2009
I have mentioned it frequently before, there is another serious problem with pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, ocean acidification.
Geoengineering should never be discussed without mentioning it. The Way Things Break tells Nature as much.
August 10, 2009
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August 7, 2009
So the thread on the "There is no evidence" sceptic guide article is too long and off topic. Comments are now closed there, please add any you may still have on that post's topic here.
Comments specific to the "missing hotspot" tangent should go here.
August 7, 2009
A recent comment here brought up the frequent contrarian argument that there is a signature patern to enhanced greenhouse gas warming that is missing in the observational data despite showing up in the models. This is notably absent from the How to talk to a climate sceptic guide, something I hope…
August 6, 2009
A very frequent whinge from climate change denialists is that the big bad environmental industrial complex is suppressing any dissent from the pre-approved party line. This is never accompanied by any actual evidence beyond an occasional anecdote.
One such anecdote emerged last June in what was…
August 3, 2009
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skip to bottom Sipping from the internet firehose... August 2, 2009 McKinsey Report, WPO Poll, Nile Basin Conf., G2 Conf…
July 28, 2009
I have tried to make it quite clear a few times that regardless of no new record, there is no evidence that the underlying rising trend in global surface temperatures has reversed or stopped. But absent a short term rising trend the inattentive public is very vulnerable to disengenouous denialists…
July 27, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... July 26, 2009 Chuckle,…
July 25, 2009
This is the headline on a press release from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are one of the goto sources for data about sea ice, either arctic or antarctic.
The final extent of arctic sea ice melting this year, as in any other single…
July 24, 2009
Offered in the spirit of off topic friday funnies:
Have a good weekend!
July 21, 2009
It has come up in the comments a couple of times now, so I would like to state for the record that the following is a lousy analogy of a negative feedback. As far as I know, Richard Lindzen came up with this in his speech at the recent Heartland climate sceptic conference.
The analogy is this:
In…
July 20, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... July 19, 2009 Chuckle, Post…
July 16, 2009
Lots of FUD about climate models get thrown around in the Climate Wars, but what is it they are really doing anyway?
The contrarians would have us believe they just take in a bunch of contrived parameters and spit out the worst case possible scenario for global average temperature increase. But…
July 15, 2009
Changes? Well hardly. Apparently the shocking "dog bites man" story of minuscule changes in GISS global anomaly data is making the rounds on denier sites.
A poster here embedded the copy/pasted accusation in an off topic thread, it goes thus:
Looks like Hansen/GISS is up to their old tricks;
Here…
July 15, 2009
So a couple of regular supporting commenters have said they will abandon AFTIC unless I do something about a couple of regular antagonistic commenters. It is a difficult question for me as I do appreciate having help answering the various misinformation that is bandied about here. I really don't…
July 13, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News July 12, 2009 Chuckle, Top Stories:G8, MEF, Oxfam, Greenland Group…
July 10, 2009
Some comments came up about Ian Plimer`s recent fiction novel "Heaven and Earth".
They were off topic for that thread so I have moved them here and any discussion can follow below.
Thanks.
July 7, 2009
Marc Morono (sick) breathlessly announces that Gavin Schmidt has finally admitted that weather is chaotic and GCMs can not model it.
And yes, that is about as shocking an admission as water is wet.
Here is the incriminating quote:
"The problem with climate prediction and projections going out to…
July 6, 2009
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... July 5, 2009 Chuckle, Top…
July 1, 2009
Just wondering how the conspiracy theories about the climatological-industrial complex handle this:
Funding cut for UK climate research?
Hadley's climate research was not alarmist enough?
June 29, 2009
(The following is offered as an amusing example of how reality sometimes seems to have a sense of homour:)
My wife is from the Czech Republic and was mentioning to me her family's worries about the recent flooding (they are not in immediate danger). I google-news'ed it and went to the first hit,…
June 29, 2009
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