Comment on 21st century solar cooling by Jim D
I need to correct this. Woodfortrees only gives you a ten-year cycle whatever you try to do. Anyway the graph gives an idea of how solar variations would look compared to the actual record. I still...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by David Young
I think this whole discussion is interesting because there seems to be a blind spot in climate science for solar influences, despite the Lord Gavin’s claim that to say this is a strawman. Lets review:...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by curryja
climate scientists often wiggle out of this by saying that the are focusing on the period since the 1970′s when the data is best. Until I see convincing explanations for the pre 1970 temperature...
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Comment on 21st century solar cooling by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2
I doubt the Earth will ever reach a true thermodynamic equilibrium. With nearly 1000 years of what is likely lower than average temperatures for this period of history due to volcanic depression, I...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 3/9/12 by kim
Paging Pekka. He’s on call today, right? ==========
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by curryja
We have debated the issue of ocean heat content several times at CE: http://judithcurry.com/2012/01/24/missing-heat-isnt-missing-after-all/ http://judithcurry.com/2011/01/07/wheres-the-missing-heat/ I...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by kim
OK, brainiacs, what’s the meaning of primarily southern hemispheric sunspots during the Maunder Minimum? Leif avoids this question also. ===============
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by Jim D
I would have used 2.5 degrees per doubling which puts us in a negative anomaly now relative to the beginning of the century. This would be aerosols that grew between 1940 and 1970 and then stayed...
View ArticleComment on Lindzen’s seminar: Part II by Pekka Pirilä
1. There are two (perhaps more) ways of defining the feedback for the warming. One of the ways includes all feedbacks, the other leaves the primary feedback, known as Planck response out considering it...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by Gavin
<em>"What is really needed is for the IPCC to more seriously look at 20th century attribution, and this would include looking at a range of volcanic and solar forcing reconstructions."</em>...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by Jim
Something, we don’t know what, caused the universe to come into existence. Nevertheless, the universe still exists.
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by curryja
And the CMIP experiments are conducted just for fun, not for the IPCC? And in the absence of such experiments, the IPCC should not be providing “very likely” confidence assessments regarding 20th...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by Jim D
The ice ages fit with the energy balance model in a simple way. Orbital changes affect the north polar summer albedo through changing the distribution of solar radiation through the year. Average...
View ArticleComment on Lindzen’s Seminar at the House of Commons by Latimer Alder
Let me translate that into English for you. The ‘more senior’ persons have had longer to develop their BS detector mechanisms and seen more examples to train them with. By about 55 yo they are firing...
View ArticleComment on Messes and super wicked problems by Tom
The rules of science have been treated with contempt… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9132216/Legal-skull-duggery-in-Greece-may-doom-Portugal.html Now even, more...
View ArticleComment on Lindzen’s Seminar at the House of Commons by corporate message
“I am hardly guilty of excess.” Tell that to someone living on pennies a day. Tell that to the grandchildren of those people - that you used massive energy to rapidly transport you to Everest – and...
View ArticleComment on Messes and super wicked problems by WebHubTelescope
Nice to see that you all think continuously increasing gas prices due to increasing scarcity of cheap crude oil is not an issue that you and your neighbors are concerned about. Oh, is that a problem of...
View ArticleComment on Messes and super wicked problems by cui bono
Kim – 100%! They should take the McArthur ‘genius’ award away from a certain criminal hydrologist and give it to you. No messes with Kim, who can slaughter massed hoardes of superwicked problems with a...
View ArticleComment on 21st century solar cooling by The Real Richard Black BBC
No, no, don’t be silly. It’s obvious that C02 drives UK sunshine hours recorded. How else can we explain the increase in sunshine hours since 1979? /sarc
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