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...
View ArticleComment 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.
View ArticleComment 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.
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by David Young
Chief, Thanks for the citation
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment on AMS members surveyed on global warming by Alex Heyworth
Very much tongue in cheek, Peter. Happy to acknowledge your existence!
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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.
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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...
View ArticleComment 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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