Comment on Climate Classroom by Jim D
My advice is just wait till a few years after the next solar maximum before drawing any solid conclusions about the trend. You may be sadly surprised if past decades are anything to go by. Skeptics...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by John Carpenter
“Where is the band-wagon effect for climate theories that deem to explain the 33 degree C heating of the planet above that predicted in the absence of greenhouse gases? I keep track of a lot of the...
View ArticleComment on Climate Classroom by manacker
Jim D To get back to the K-12 classroom. If the kiddos are being taught about past warming and CO2 they should know. Over the past 160+ years it has warmed at an average rate of a bit more than 0.04C...
View ArticleComment on Climate Classroom by maksimovich
Within decades there are pauses associated with solar minima that seem to fool people who don’t average them out. This happened in the 80′s, 90′s and 00′s, but only the last one has received attention....
View ArticleComment on Climate Classroom by Jim D
Max, I agree with most of this, especially the end part, but would additionally advise against using short-term trends as indicators of anything, due to natural variability. Solar influences have been...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by manacker
pokerguy Fred has a strange (IMO myopically fixated) notion of what is “interesting” when it comes to climate science. Reports by Spencer or Lindzen on climate sensitivity estimates based on satellite...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by Jim S
“….the Lobell et al study, while not conclusive, implies that agricultural productivity has been impeded compared to what it would have been without the warming.” Fred, this proposition cannot be...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by Fred Moolten
John – I don’t know what the Chinese government expects from releasing the document. The study that went into it was commissioned by the government and was very extensive, with an extensive writeup. I...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by manacker
As the wheels on the speeding CAGW bandwagon (and gravy train) are beginning to squeak and wobble, the riders aboard (like NOAA) are getting shriller in their doomsday warnings – it’s all part of the...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by manacker
cui bono My theory on this is simple: Despite continuous ex post facto corrections, adjustments and other manipulations, HadCRUT3 was no longer conveying the desired message, so had to be replaced with...
View ArticleComment on Climate Classroom by Chief Hydrologist
Jimmy – you don’t really try to understand why do you? Simply make it up as you go along? Ignore the quotes and references? You are part of the problem – unshakably convinced and no room for complexity...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by Arcs_n_Sparks
“get the government out of the energy arena, other than for nuclear which needs more regulation due to the nature of the fuel.” And what nature is that? Radiation release? I think coal leads the pack,...
View ArticleComment on Climate Classroom by Jim D
CH, OK, thanks for your thoughts. I don’t know whether you are in the denier or skeptic camp. I define a denier as someone who thinks AGW is not even possibly true (0%). But even if you have a slight...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by incandecentbulb
Mark Levin says, that utopianism and constitutionalism cannote coexist. He says, “Utopianism requires power to be concentrated in a central authority with maximum latitude to transform and control....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by randomengineer
You missed this http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LY3AJ31A74E901-703SIP1EKP1CK27FVGL5LB0GP8 Germany is slowly whacking subsidies for PV.
View ArticleComment on Climate Classroom by Chief Hydrologist
Oh right – I provisionally made the list. Yea. Might I suggest he add the NAS – http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309074347 – the WHOI – http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455 – and the Royal...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by markus
Ha, you’re telling me. Mate, you are a goose. Goodbye
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by Jim D
Assuming you mean CF is the surface, home plate is space, and the cut-off man is the atmosphere. The rule is that to get as many balls to home plate as you did without the cut-off man, you have to...
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Comment on Week in review 1/20/12 by capt. dallas
I think the problem is the cutoff man is going to third some of the time
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/20/12 by JCH
My hunch, a prolonged global recession would result in a pretty quick run up in OHC.
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