Comment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by andrew adams
Well I don’t quite accept your high opinion of his record as chancellor, given that we ended up in what was then the worst recession since the war, but that’s an argument for a different forum. Still,...
View ArticleComment on U.S. military and climate skeptics by Geckko
The problem is that the alarmist members of the so-called Consensus insist that “uncertainty” requires us to act. Unfortunately what is needed in order to evaluate the merits of any action is...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by Latimer Alder
Agreed. But neither can he be dismissed as a non-serious Cabinet Minister as the previous correspondent attempted to do. And in so doing he merely emphasises his inability to discuss any sensible...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by Don Aitkin
Nick Stokes: Let me suggest that you read what I wrote a little while ago, in ‘An essay on the current state of the climate change debate’ posted above on March 29, 2011. In that essay I set out what I...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by manacker
Nick Stokes The “argument” for AGW, per se, is correct as you stated, with my addition to part 3. (IOW “temperature rise” is already a deduced “consequence”, which may occur unless another compensating...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by David Wojick
I take the UAH data to be good enough to make a determination. It shows (1) no warming from 1978 to 1997, (2) no warming from 2001 to today and (3) that the later flat line is warmer than the former,...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by Pauld
Muller: “A few years later, McIntyre came out and, indeed, showed that the hockey-stick chart was in fact incorrect. It had been affected by a very serious bug in the way scientists calculated their...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by manacker
Don Aitkin Our two posts to Nick Stokes crossed, but I see we are saying essentially the same thing. Max
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by Nick Stokes
What I set out is just the content of the first section of the SPM – the section “HUMAN AND NATURAL DRIVERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE”, from p 1 to about 5.5. You will find nothing there about the temp record....
View ArticleComment on On admitting and correcting mistakes by David L. Hagen
kunhkat, Pekka et al. For a quantitative rigorous thermodynamic development of the lapse rate, see: Robert H. Essenhigh Prediction of the Standard Atmosphere Profiles of Temperature, Pressure, and...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by snide
“This conference seems like a really good idea, and it is good sign to see the climate establishment engaging with some serious skeptics. ” I’m sorry, which skeptics were the serious ones??
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by curryja
Bishop Hill has a very interesting post re the Cambridge workshop, on what we can agree on. http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/5/24/what-we-agree-on.html I had a thread sort of like this...
View ArticleComment on On admitting and correcting mistakes by Pekka Pirilä
The abstract contains a reference to “a gray-body equivalent average for the effective radiation absorption coefficient, k, for the mixed thermal radiation-active gases at an effective (joint-mixture)...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 5/23/11 by Nick Stokes
“Is this the statement that Mann believes is “false” and “libelous”?” How about some facts? Citations? When and where did Mann say such a thing? “For those who support Mann’s methods, do you agree that...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty, risk, and (in)action by JCH
2007? Possibly more now. In 2007 there were predictions multi-year ice would be recovered by 2011. Where are they now?
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty, risk, and (in)action by Mike Keller
The left leaning scientific community has used its keen intellect to conclude that we are all doomed from climate warming because that rascal mankind is filling the air with CO2. Meanwhile, hundreds of...
View ArticleComment on The futility of carbon reduction? by manacker
tonto52 You’re starting to get tedious with your statements such as: If Judith Curry has changed her mind she needs to clear things up. I have followed Judith’s blog site here for several months, and...
View ArticleComment on The futility of carbon reduction? by Fred Moolten
“I later extended this to the carbon-based economy of the whole world. The result: no significant change in global temperature by 2100. The conclusion: We are unable to change our climate, no matter...
View ArticleComment on Freedom of Information by Nick Stokes
Brandon, you said “The censored directory shows Mann knew his work was unsupportable” and your latest comment does nothing to support that extravagant charge. All you have now is the observation that...
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