climate models, Tag

Roy Spencer has posted up a very useful comparison of lower tropospheric temperatures against model predictions so that we can assess if the models are doing any better in the upper atmosphere.

The Potsdam Institute has something of a reputation for being a research unit of loose morals. The letter written by one of their star scientists in the Economist suggests that their grasp of the scientific method is even...

Warren Pearce has written an interesting layman's guide to sceptical arguments on climate change at the Making Science Public blog. He covers issues such as Climategate and science by press release in what I think is a reasonable...

BH regulars Tamsin Edwards and Jonathan Jones are facing off in a debate about the usefulness of climate models at the Cheltenham Science Festival on 7 June.

by Judith Curry If climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, climate sensitivity would be on negative watch. But it would not yet be downgraded. – The Economist Over the past few weeks, there have been some interesting...

David Whitehouse's response to the CCC blog post is pretty devastating:

Brian Hoskins and Steve Smith, advisers to the Committee on Climate Change, have written (yet another) riposte to David Rose's article in the Mail on Sunday...

A couple more reactions to David Rose's article have appeared.

In the wake of David Rose's Mail on Sunday article yesterday, Piers Forster tweeted that he was unimpressed with the article. I asked him if he would be willing to set out why in a bit more detail and this is his response:

David Rose, writing in the Mail on Sunday, has penned a long feature on the temperature slowdown and what this implies about UK energy policy. I don't know about you, but the Mail on Sunday's willingness to publish science-heavy...

by Judith Curry [A] technique called direct statistical simulation dramatically reduces the time and brute-force computing that current simulation techniques require...

American schoolchildren are to have what looks like a monolithic view of global warming imposed upon them:

JonMilnes / Shutterstock Coral bleaching occurs when sea temperatures rise and kill algae that are the source of color and food for most corals around the globe – and a new study shows that there could be mass bleaching...

JonMilnes / Shutterstock Coral bleaching occurs when sea temperatures rise and kill algae that is the source of both color and food for most corals around the globe, and a new study shows that by 2056, there could be mass...

by Judith Curry In the past 6 months or so, we have seen numerous different plots of the CMIP5 climate model simulations versus observations. The first such plot that I saw was produced by John Christy in his Congressional...