More on RC Misinformation from Pielke Sr.

6 07 2009

Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation Part II

Filed under: Climate Change Forcings & Feedbacks, Climate Science Misconceptions — Roger Pielke Sr. @ 8:42 am

There are comments on the Real Climate weblog More bubkes regarding why I did not comment further on Arctic sea ice trends. This is because I weblogged on it in June in my post

A Comment On A 1999 Paper “Global Warming And Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent By Vinnikov Et Al

I concluded that weblog with the text Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : Arctic, sea ice

The success penalty

6 07 2009

Sheryl Crow and her Mercedes Bluetec Diesel SUV - click for story

New climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest

Source: Reuters
* World’s richest emit about half of Earth’s carbon

* Tracking the wealthy could break climate impasse

* New method would follow individual greenhouse emissions

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing targets for emission cuts on the number of wealthy people, who are also the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, in a country.

Since about half the planet’s climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its people, it makes sense to follow these rich folks when setting national targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the authors wrote on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Categories : ridiculae

Quote Of The Week #13

6 07 2009

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From Gary Strand, software engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) commenting on Climate Audit:

As a software engineer, I know that climate model software doesn’t meet the best standards available. We’ve made quite a lot of progress, but we’ve still quite a ways to go.

I’ll say. NASA GISS model E written on some of the worst FORTRAN coding ever seen  is a challenge to even get running. NASA GISTEMP is even worse. Yet our government has legislation under consideration significantly based on model output that Jim Hansen started. His 1988 speech to Congress was entirely based on model scenarios.

Do we really want congress to make trillion dollar tax decisions today based on “software [that] doesn’t meet the best standards available.”?

There’s more. Steve McIntyre comments:

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Categories : Quote of the Week, modeling

Pielke Sr. on RC – continued misinformation

6 07 2009

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Real Climate Permits The Continued Presentation Of Misinformation

Filed under: Climate Change Metrics, Climate Science Misconceptions — Roger Pielke Sr. @ 1:23 pm

Over at Real Climate, quite a few of the comments that they post continue to incorrectly interpret the observed behavior of the global average upper ocean heat content changes and sea level rise over the last 5 years (see the misinformation in the comments on the Real Climate weblog More bubkes).

The authors of Real Climate, unfortunately, are permitting this erroneous information (and personal insults) to be posted without their comments and correction. Apparently, the balance provided by Gavin Schmidt that I reported on in my weblog Gavin Schmidt’s Interview On Media Hype On Climate Science Issues was just a fluke.

In this weblog, I will correct two of the major errors made in a number of the comments on the Real Climate website. Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : Science, ridiculae