Hurricane Harvey: long-range forecasts

Posted on August 27, 2017 | 183 comments

by Judith Curry

The 12 year drought of major hurricane landfalls in the U.S. is over, with catastrophic impacts in Texas.  Predictions of Hurricane Harvey illustrate the realization of extended- and long-range hurricane forecasts.

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Posted in Hurricanes

Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report

Posted on August 20, 2017 | 250 comments

by Judith Curry

Calling on CE Denizens to review the Climate Science Special Report:  nominate an official reviewer, or participate in the CE Crowdsourced Review.

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Posted in Scientific method, Sociology of science

Reviewing the CCSR: Discussion thread

Posted on August 20, 2017 | 114 comments

by Judith Curry

This post is running parallel to the post Reviewing the Climate Science Special Report (a technical post), to accommodate general discussion on the topic

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Posted in Scientific method

Week in review – science & policy edition

Posted on August 19, 2017 | 100 comments

by Judith Curry

A few things that caught my eye this past week.

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Posted in Week in review

What do we know about Arctic sea ice trends?

Posted on August 16, 2017 | 199 comments

by Dr. Ronan Connolly & Dr. Michael Connolly

Satellite observations indicate that the average Arctic sea ice extent has generally decreased since the start of the satellite records in October 1978. Is this period long enough to assess whether the current sea level trend is unusual, and to what extent the decline is caused by humans?

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Posted in Polar regions

The blame game

Posted on August 14, 2017 | 157 comments

by Judith Curry

For the sake of argument, let’s accept the IPCC conclusions regarding attribution of global warming, and their 21st century projections.  So, exactly who in the U.S. bears the blame for current and future damages?

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Posted in Ethics, Politics

Nature Unbound IV – The 2400 Bray cycle. Part C

Posted on August 7, 2017 | 411 comments

by Javier

A possible mechanism for the effect of solar variability on climate, whereby solar variability acts over the stratospheric pressure system transmitting the changes top-down, and over ocean temperatures bottom-up.

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Posted in Adaptation, Data and observations