Kevin Vranes pretty much nails it with an insightful analysis at Prometheus about the way the hockey stick debate has become such an odd sideshow: Inaction was the political response to the 2001 SPM* presentation of the hockey stick. The hockey stick both as science and icon could not have been more hyped. But They …
If I may, then, in my next breath criticize my good friend Tim Lambert whom I’ve never met, I think his post this morning on CEI bloviator Ian Murray’s remarkable global climate change conversation rather misses he point. Murray used to be a serial denier of the consensus science on climate change. Now, in a …
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A discussion over at RealClimate about media coverage of climate change (an issue dear to my heart) sent me back to read a widely quoted paper last year by Boykoff and Boykoff – Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press.
The Barnett paper I quoted below talks about hydrologic changes “already diagnosed in some regions.” A reminder for those of you in the Western U.S. – we’re one of those regions.
A paper in Nature by Tim Barnett at Scripps and Jenny Adam and Dennis Lettenmaier at the University of Washington suggests climate change problems for folks who depend on snowpack for their water supplies: All currently available climate models predict a near-surface warming trend under the influence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the …
Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntryre have taken Roger Pielke Jr. up on his offer that they spell out their arguments about “why those of us not involved in the hockey stick fight should care about the continuing battles.” Neither offers any argument whatsoever regarding how this might influence my thinking about what policy choices I …
Given my personal feeling that variability is the climate change bugaboo that matters the most, I spent a lot of time thinking and asking about last year’s Science paper by Hans von Storch about variability in the paleo record. Now there’s a new paper in Journal of Climate by Mann, Rutherford, Wahl and Amman that …
Global warming has its winners as well as losers: That’s a hollyhock in the front garden, still blooming away two weeks after the average first fall freeze date in Albuquerque. Overnight lows for November in Albuquerque this month have averaged 42 F, 7 1/2 degrees above average. Daytime highs are 8 degrees above average. Obviously …
Don’t panic just yet, but it’s worth paying attention to a couple of signs out of the monitoring and forecast community that La Niña (the cool equatorial Pacific that tends toward dry winters here in New Mexico) may be about to sneak in the back door. The latest CPC forecast, out Thursday, said as much: …
I don’t mind saying that Al Zelicoff is a bit of a nut. But I mean that with the greatest respect, because you frankly can’t argue with the results (1.2 meg pdf, and more here). At Al’s ordinary (OK, slightly larger than ordinary) upper middle class Albuquerque home down the street from me, he has …