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Comment on Letter to the dragon slayers by Richard T. Fowler

The answer to the question is not unambiguously observable based on the sentence as originally written. Hence my expression of uncertainty. And hence, there was no clear inaccuracy, unless the sentence...

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Comment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by curryja

actually, the correlations aren’t with total NH snowfall, but rather certain regions, see fig 1 of the paper.

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Comment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by curryja

Leigh, agreed, there is a potential negative feedback here, esp if the snowfall melts later in the spring.

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Comment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by Robert

Nikolay N Damyanov H Damon Matthews and Lawrence A Mysak. Observed decreases in the Canadian outdoor skating season due to recent winter warming. Environmental Research Letters, 2012; Volume 7 Number 1...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by NW

dipsh_t. Very witty. Did you make it up yourself? Seriously CK, as you probably have not noticed, I usually read your comments, both rambling and scientific, without comment. Your rambles I ignore, and...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by David Young

Chief, Thanks for the citation

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Chris Colose

The initial value problem does not technically go away, but it becomes a decidedly smaller fraction of the uncertainty as time progresses relative to structural/parametric uncertainties in models, as...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Alex Heyworth

Very much tongue in cheek, Peter. Happy to acknowledge your existence!

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Jim D

David, no, Andy Lacis has the correct usage for climate and weather problems. Perhaps atmospheric science uses a mathematical analogy, but strictly boundary problems are defined by their constraints...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Captain Kangaroo

Enough said – I don’t think so. You make idiotic claims about economists and respond with an idiotic remark about nonentities when I post a link to Sinclair Davidson who wrote precisely on this problem...

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Comment on Lindzen’s Seminar at the House of Commons by Latimer Alder

@martin lack I read the article. And, as I was unsurprised to learn, it does not show very much of the argument that you think it does. It actually does little more than say that the Conservative Think...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by David Young

That’s the whole point of what I said. The Schmidt “doctrine of the attractor” has no evidence other than the empirical observation that “every time I run the model, it seems to settle down to the same...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by David Young

JimD, I now know you are confused. The alleged independence of the climate on initial conditions is not a mathematical consequence, it is an imperical observation of running flawed models over and over...

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Comment on Lindzen’s Seminar at the House of Commons by scepticalWombat

You might like to look at <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/03/misrepresentation-from-lindzen/#more-11099" rel="nofollow">another reason for laughing at this...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Captain Kangaroo

The ‘uncertainty in prediction’ stems form 2 sources There is widespread evidence of abrupt climate change – from interannular to millennial scales. ‘Recent scientific evidence shows that major and...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Anteros

+1 Especially your last point. Which means that as long as we see it, and understand it as advocacy (for something absurd) we won’t be led astray.

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Faustino

MarkB, the sentence referred to 70% as being a large majority: “a large majority indicated that human activity (59%), or human activity and natural causes in more or less equal amounts (11%), were the...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Anteros

And it very much depends on the question, and what people mean by scepticism. If you ask a load of sane, informed, intelligent scientists whether human activity has an effect on the climate, you will...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by A Lacis

David, In describing climate as a “boundary value” problem, the main point that I was wanting to make is that for specified (fixed) radiative forcing boundary conditions, there exists an equilibrium...

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Comment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by cwon14

More evidence of GMU “collaborating” with Yale Climate “Communications”; http://news.yale.edu/2010/06/08/poll-american-opinion-climate-change-warms I love this one below. How convenient, Yale which...

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