Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Releases Oversight Report: Obama’s Carbon Mandate: An Account of Collusion, Cutting Corners, and Costing Americans Billions

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Ocean acidification discussion thread

Posted on September 23, 2015 by curryja | 223 comments

by Judith Curry

This thread discusses sections 10.3 and 10.4 in Alan Longhurst’s new book Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science.

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Posted in Oceans

New book: Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science

Posted on September 20, 2015 by curryja | 561 comments

by Judith Curry

Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science is an important new book that everyone should read. And its free.

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Posted in Attribution, Uncertainty

RICO!

Posted on September 17, 2015 by curryja | 632 comments

by Judith Curry

You have signed the death warrant for science. – Peter Webster

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Posted in Ethics

Hiatus revisionism

Posted on September 17, 2015 by curryja | 280 comments

by Judith Curry

Some interesting new papers on the hiatus in global warming.

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Posted in Attribution, Data and observations

Heterodox Academy

Posted on September 15, 2015 by curryja | 399 comments

by Judith Curry

I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view. I think you should be able to — anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with ‘em. – President Obama

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Has the AMO flipped to the cool phase?

Posted on September 11, 2015 by curryja | 119 comments

by Judith Curry

Klotzbach and Gray ask whether the active Atlantic hurricane era has ended, owing to the negative values of the AMO.

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The Urgenda ruling in the Netherlands

Posted on September 9, 2015 by curryja | 326 comments

by Lukas Bergkamp

The Dutch government has decided to appeal the widely publicised “Urgenda” ruling from the district court in The Hague, ordering the Netherlands to step up its climate change actions. There are good reasons why we should hope that the court of appeals will overturn the ruling — it sets a dangerous precedent for judicial activism, is inconsistent with European law and will even undermine international climate negotiations.

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