Comment on How not to save the planet by k scott denison
steven, while I understand what you are saying, I’m not sure resilience was the word you were looking for.
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by steven mosher
Ant, What is worse is that Santer used some models without volcanic forcing to establish his S/N. As we see in a recent paper the LIA may have been caused by successive volcanoes triggering a change in...
View ArticleComment on How not to save the planet by k scott denison
“That non-zero risk may be much lower than us all being abducted by aliens, one by one, and made into an enormous hamburger….” >>>>>>>>>>>> Anteros, that one made me...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Joshua
Vaughn - Where did that quote come from?
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Anteros
billc - I think we can avoid confusion with ‘prove’, and ‘disallow’, I wonder. If 17 passes (just) the 95% confidence level, and you have four cooling periods of 17 years in a century, how do you feel...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Theo Goodwin
In this post, Dr. Curry discusses the uncertainty that attaches to scenarios for future climate that are generated by computer models. I have no criticisms of Dr. Curry’s work on uncertainty. However,...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Anteros
SM - I agree absolutely. I’m off on a tangent with billc and Joshua. I don’t have any numbers for this, but even with a background warming of, say 1.5C per century, 17 years strikes me as...
View ArticleComment on Letter to the dragon slayers by Pete Ridley
Hi Doug, thanks for your attempt to explain your hypothesis about why the estimated mean temperature of the earth is what it is (and differs from that on other bodies in space, such as the moon). I’m...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Anteros
Well said Theo, but I think that there is much deafness about! I like the idea that another name for CAGW is a ‘worry’. Worries have a weight and an energy many orders of magnitude greater than the...
View ArticleComment on How not to save the planet by hunter
hastur, So you reject the idea held by may AGW believers that we are facing dangerous climate change?
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by ceteris non paribus
” Is it possible, as Andy Lacis claimed on a previous thread, to estimate how much surface temperatures change by only looking at the way energy in transmitted through the atmnposphere by radiation? ”...
View ArticleComment on Letter to the dragon slayers by James
Repected “peer reviewed jounrnals” in climate science? Cast your eyes beyond entitlement. http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/1000-scientists-and-counting-boycott-elsevier-journal-publishing/...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Jim Cripwell
billc writes “I think Lacis is wrong in that assertion and he basically admitted it.” Thank you for the response, Bill, but if Andy Lacis is wrong (and I am convinced he is), then there is no way,...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Jim Cripwell
certeris non paribus writes “Since the earth is currently gaining more energy than it is losing, and since it cannot conduct or convect energy away into space, global energy budget considerations...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by ceteris non paribus
” Surely it is obvious that we do not want to argue that our expectations about climate are uncertain on the grounds that our intellectual tools for addressing climate have uncertainty associated with...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Wagathon
I’ve heard for years that where there is challenge there is opportunity. How about ice skate rentals on the Thames? Ice fishing in in Paris anyone? Studded tires tear up roads so…invest in asphalt...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Joshua
Anteros - There are two issues: One is the clarity issue. What are the actual arguments that people make. The second is the distortion issue: are there people who milk distortions of the arguments of...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by curryja
which text is missing? I am travelling today, at an airport, slow to respond and fix things. I will try to figure it out
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Anteros
Joshua - FWIW I think Matt is right. He is just saying (or reminding) that the 17 years is the 95% level – it isn’t some kind of sacrosanct definitive proof – it’s just a statistical expectation. You...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Joshua
I was wondering when we were going to have the first weather post over at WUWT this winter. Sure enough – it happened as soon as there was some abnormally cold weather in the U.S. Funny how there...
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