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A new two-part study published in Climatic Change by a team of scientists led by Stephan Lewandowsky examines mathematically what happens to the risks posed by climate change when the scientific uncertainty increases. Part 1 of the study explores two important points. First, the proba...
Cartoon: the climate contrarian guide to managing risk Posted on 4 March 2014 by dana1981, John Cook Climate change is fundamentally a risk management problem. Whether or not you agree with the 97 percent expert consensus on human-caused global warming , there is an undeniable risk th...
Heavy rain brought the new year in for Southern England and South Wales in particular, with several people having to be rescued from floodwaters on the 1st . During the period January 3rd-6th , a pair of enormous storm-systems, each eventually spanning the entire North Atlantic, broug...
The report itself is essentially a commentary and includes no new information. It boils down to Lewis and Crok trying to make the case that climate sensitivity is on the lower end of the IPCC estimated range. In the report, they find reasons to dismiss the many studies and varying app...
In the question and answer period following my February 25 testimony on the Administration’s Climate Action Plan before the Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) suggested that I had misled the American peop...
Australia’s hottest year was no freak event: humans caused it Posted on 17 January 2014 by dana1981 This is a re-post from The Conversation The Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed that 2013 was the hottest year in Australia since records began in 1910. Unusual heat was a persistent fe...
DSL at 02:10 AM on 8 March, 2013 Kevin, a cherry-pick is a rhetorical move. It's performed in order to make the data say what the presenter wants them to say. In essence, a trend period is picked for its support or falsification of the hypothesis. The trend period is not picked for sc...
We all have our own personal vectors of importance weights when it comes to climate research. These days mine tend to place much weight on research that sheds a clearer light on why we shouldn’t be considering solar radiation management geo-engineering, what I’ve called ‘the mother of...
