The Black Knight
I’ve been engaging in some discussions with people I shall politely call climate “skeptics”. It struck me that it’s a bit like the classic Black Knight scene from Monty Python. Start off being polite...
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Nature Scientific Reports
Correction – 07/07/2019: I’ve been informed that the journal title is actually Scientific Reports, not Nature Scientific Reports. I’ve edited the text, but not the title. Michael Brown made me aware of...
View ArticleIt’s dangerous!
There’s a recent Nature Climate Change article by Shinichiro Asayam, Rob Bellamy, Oliver Geden, Warren Pearce and Mike Hulme. It’s called Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous. The basic idea is...
View ArticleRetract!
I’ve been on holiday for a week or so. While I’ve been away there’s been quite a lot of media coverage of the paper that I discussed in this post and that we discussed extensively in this pubpeer...
View ArticleFrank’s New Memo
Frank Luntz issued a new memo: Big thanks to Senator @BrianSchatz for inviting me to today’s ‘Conservatives for Climate Change’ hearing.The environment belongs to all of us. It’s time to put policy...
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Climate sensitivity and decadal temperature variability
There are some who argue that natural/internal variability can play a role in driving long-term warming, and – hence – could explain a substantial fraction of recent warming. This, however, creates a...
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