Daily Archives: April 15, 2009

Climate Models -vs- Climate Reality: diverging or just a dip?

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Here’s something really interesting:  two comparisons between model ensembles and  3 well known global climate metrics plotted together. The interesting part is what happens in the near present. While the climate models and climate measurements start out in sync in … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, climate_change, modeling | 180 Comments

Why Third Year Arctic Ice Will Increase Next Year

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Guest post by Steven Goddard In spite of the excess global sea ice area and the freezing Catlin crew, AGW proponents have recently ramped up the rhetoric about “melting ice caps.”  This has been based on a couple of points. … Continue reading →

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Update: Sun and Ice

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By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM The sun remains in a deep slumber. Today we are 15 days into April without a sunspot and with 603 sunspotless day this cycle minimum, 92 already this year.  2009 at this rate, is likely to … Continue reading →

Posted in sea ice, solar | 310 Comments

Sir John Maddox (1925-2009)

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Story here John Maddox, a former editor of the journal Nature, who attended yesterday’s meeting, said the sceptics might have a point. He did not dispute that carbon dioxide emissions could drive global warming, but said: “The IPCC is monolithic … Continue reading →

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The oceans as a calorimeter and solar amplification

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For those who don’t know, a calorimeter is a device to measure heat capacity. There is an entire science called calorimetry devoted to this measurement. Scottish physician and scientist Joseph Black, who was the first to recognize the distinction between … Continue reading →

Posted in oceans, Science, solar | 147 Comments

Rommulan Sudden Acceleration

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I found this article well researched and clearly written, so I thought I’d repost it here for all to enjoy. Warren Meyers was one of the first volunteers for the surfacestations.org project and we share blog content semi-regularly. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change | 88 Comments