By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Reed Coray’s post here on Boxing Day, commenting on my post of 6 December, questions whether the IPCC and science textbooks are right that without…
Category: Climate sensitivity
Senseless about sensitivity
The speculative press release below is from the University of Gothenburg. After having a paper published earlier this year in Science that argues climate sensitivity might be lower than the…
CO2 Sensitivity is Multi-Modal – All bets are off
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein A multi-modal probability distribution, such as the graphic below [from Schmittner 2011], cries out “MULTIPLE POPULATIONS”. Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (expected temperature increase due to a…
Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban
It. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen. From Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa It. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen. This is the ghastly secret that almost all the delegates here in Durban…
Senior NCAR scientist admits: "Quantifying climate sensitivity from real world data cannot even be done using present-day data…"
Whoo boy… just a few days ago it was argued in a new peer reviewed paper published in Science that climate sensitivity might be lower than the IPCC stated in…
New study in Science shows climate sensitivity overestimated
From Oregon State University some news the team and especially Kevin Trenberth just really don’t want to hear. I covered this on a tip from Dr. Pat Michaels back on…
Climate sensitivity- lowering the IPCC "fat tail"
By Dr. Pat Michaels at World Climate Report A new, lower estimate of climate sensitivity There is word circulating that a paper soon to appear in Science magazine concludes that…
The Unknown Unknowns of Global Warming
Plants, both through decay and respiration, are responsible for over half of the world’s annual carbon dioxide emissions. I mention this fact for one reason and that is to communicate…
1 K or not 1 K? That is the question
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I am very grateful for the many thoughtful postings in response to my outline of the fundamental theoretical upper bound of little more than 1.2…
Cloud cools
Guest post by Erl Happ This post was generated in response to the Christopher Monkton thread. It is not a criticism of Christopher Monkton but of our tendency to imagine…
Monckton on "pulling Planck out of a hat"
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley My commentary written for Remote Sensing on the empirical determination of climate sensitivity, published by the splendid Anthony Watts some days ago, has aroused a…
Dessler's GRL paper video
Perhaps fearing that his fast tracked no hurdles rebuttal to Spencer and Braswell wouldn’t be enough to have it the buzz of the blogosphere, highlighted in Real Climate, and blasted…
Hot off the press: Dessler's record turnaround time GRL rebuttal paper to Spencer and Braswell
UPDATE: Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. has a comment on the paper here: Comments On The Dessler 2011 GRL Paper “Cloud Variations And The Earth’s Energy Budget also, physicist Lubos Motl has…
New paper from Lindzen and Choi implies that the models are exaggerating climate sensitivity.
Dr. Richard Lindzen writes to me with news of this significant new paper saying “It has taken almost 2 years to get this out. “. Part of that problem appears…
The IPCC and high biased climate sensitivity
Nicholas Lewis (who with Jeff Id and Ryan O’Donnell rebutted Steig et al and the flawed Antarctica surface temperature analysis) writes in with a note about a post on Climate,…
Skeptic Strategy for Talking About Global Warming
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein What should a responsible Skeptic say to an astute audience? When recently invited by the “Technology, Engineering, and Science Plus” group in my community to…
Visualizing the "Greenhouse Effect" – Light and Heat
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein Solar “light” radiation in = Earth “heat” radiation to Space out! That’s old news to those of us who understand all energy is fungible (may…
The climate sensitivity and the surface temperature record question – answers from major players
Dr. Roger Pielke Senior posted this today, since he has no comments on his blog, I felt it would be good to repost it here to allow discussion – Anthony…
Visualizing the "Greenhouse Effect" – Emission Spectra
Guest post by Ira Glickstein The Atmospheric “greenhouse effect” has been analogized to a blanket that insulates the Sun-warmed Earth and slows the rate of heat transmission, thus increasing mean…
New paper claims a value one seventh of the IPCC best estimate for Climate Sensitivity for a CO2 doubling
Paul Ostergaard writes via email: Here is an interesting new paper that Miklos Zagoni has pointed me to via Judith Curry’s blog. This researcher in Germany has carried out a…
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