climate science

This is the strangest article I've ever seen on weather.com. https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-09-07-florence-unusual-track-united-states-east-coast It starts off with the title: The article never even addresses that, as far as I can tell. And kind of out of the blue, they...

As in prior years, this is a thread on Arctic Sea Ice for tracking sea ice over the course of the 2015 melt season. This thread is approved by the moderator team for the limited purposes described, anything more than incidentally beyond that may be subject to moderator action. Rule; 1. This...

It has been shown in another thread that a higher percentage of women accept that climate change is happening than men. The difference according to a 2010 poll is about 14%. I think it would be interesting to explore the reasons for this difference. Note: The poll is limited to the US. I'll...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/19/1539259/heartland-institute-threatens-to-sue-anyone-who-comments-on-leaked-documents These are what in Internet parlance are referred to as LOL-suits, aka SLAPP-suits. SLAPP is "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation" and exists to suppress free...

I've encountered someone who doesn't buy the conventional explanation for why Venus has such hellish conditions. It apparently upsets him for some reason. So has anyone ever heard of any alternate explanations? Would someone like to speculate wildly and irresponsibly? Might there really be...

Folks, hi, Many of you may not be aware that Judith Curry has her own blog now. In her latest post: Heresy and the creation of monsters She says quite a few things that are going to probably burn any bridges she might have left between herself and her erstwhile colleagues in the climatology...

Strong Negative Feedback from the Latest CERES Radiation Budget Measurements Over the Global Oceans By Dr. Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Discussion and blog at Watts Up With That, 2008 "Best Science Blog" award winning site...

This time by the University itself in consultation with the Royal Society. http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/Report+of+the+Science+Assessment+Panel The British parliament exonerated them a couple weeks ago, and Mann was cleared a while before that...

I'll be posting news articles in here as I see them. Please confine discussion to said articles or post some of your own. Not interested in blog postings, or anything more than one week old for purposes of this thread. Do not flame ware this thread. If a troll :troll posts, ignore the troll...

Maybe this should be in the CT section? New Zealand's top climatologist and a world-renowned figure in climate change research has been sacked from his job as head of NIWA. (National Institute of Water & Atmospherics) The reason given - that Jim spoke to media without permission is...

See Climate Progress. Does anyone have access to the full paper?

Mann Hockey Stick: Latest news The House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce has written to Drs Mann, Bradley and Hughes demanding that they disclose all materials including computer source code, that was used to produce MBH98 (the "Hockey Stick") that was featured prominently...