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Who is Being Facile?
I very seldom go wallowing about responding to comments in my comment threads. As I have posted before, I try to learn from criticisms in the comments and improve or modify my positions next time I...
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Thinking About the Sun
A reader wrote me a while back and asked if I could explain how I thought the sun could be a major driver of climate when temperature and solar metrics appear to have “diverged” as in the following two...
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GCCI #7: A Ridiculously Narrow Time Window – The Sun
In a number of portions of the report, graphs appear trying to show climate variations in absurdly narrow time windows. This helps the authors either a) blame long-term climate trends on recent...
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GCCI #9: Forcing Observation to Fit the Theory
Let me digress a bit. Just over 500 years ago, Aristotelian physics and mechanical models still dominated science. The odd part about this was not that people were still using his theories nearly...
View ArticleGood News / Bad News for Media Science
The good news: The AZ Republic actually published a front page story (link now fixed) on the urban heat island effect in Phoenix, and has a discussion of how changes in ground cover, vegetation, and...
View ArticleWarming and Soot
A while back I advanced the hypothesis that soot was a major driver of sea ice melting in the Arctic. Black carbon deposits on ice and snow tend to force them to melt much faster by reducing their...
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Oh, Maybe Ocean Oscillations are Important
From an interview with Judith Curry They don’t disprove anthropogenic global warming, but we can’t airbrush them away. We need to incorporate them into the overall story. We had two bumps—in the ’90s...
View ArticleA Thought on “Short Term”
One interesting fact is that alarmists have to deal with the lack of warming or increase in ocean heat content over the last 12 years or so. They will argue that this is just a temporary aberration,...
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Did CLOUD Just Rain on the Global Warming Parade?
Today in Forbes, I have an article bringing the layman up to speed on Henrik Svensmark and this theory of cosmic ray cloud seeding. Since his theory helped explain some 20th century warming via...
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On Muller
Kevin Drum approvingly posted this chart from Muller: I applaud the effort to match theory to actual, you know, observations rather than model results. I don’t have a ton of time to write currently,...
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