Monthly Archives: April 2017

Nature Unbound III: Holocene climate variability (Part A)

Posted on April 30, 2017 by curryja | 337 comments

by Javier

First in a two part series on Holocene climate variability.

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Posted in Attribution, Data and observations

Science Marchers, Secretary Perry’s Memo and Bill Nye’s Optimism

Posted on April 24, 2017 by curryja | 406 comments

By Planning Engineer

On April 14^th, 2017 Rick Perry wrote a memo headed “STUDY EXAMINING ELECTRICITY MARKETS AND RELAIBILITY” calling for study to investigate how long term energy trends my impact the grid.

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Posted in Energy

How hurricanes replenish their vast supply of rain water

Posted on April 23, 2017 by curryja | 72 comments

by Makarieva A.M., Gorshkov V.G., Nefiodov A.V., Chikunov A.V., Sheil D., Nobre A.D., Li B.-L.

New questions and ideas about hurricanes and their power.

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Posted in Hurricanes

Untangling the March for Science

Posted on April 22, 2017 by curryja | 224 comments

by Judith Curry

Pondering some thorny issues regarding science, its place in society and its relationship to politics.

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Posted in Policy, Sociology of science

A ‘Red Team’ Exercise Would Strengthen Climate Science

Posted on April 21, 2017 by curryja | 411 comments

by Judith Curry

Put the ‘consensus’ to a test, and improve public understanding, though an open and adversarial process. – Steve Koonin

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Posted in Policy, Scientific method

How inconstant are climate feedbacks – and does it matter?

Posted on April 18, 2017 by curryja | 229 comments

by Nic Lewis

Kyle Armour has a new paper out in Nature Climate Change: “Energy budget constraints on climate sensitivity in light of inconstant climate feedbacks”.

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Posted in Sensitivity & feedbacks