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Category Archives: Climate
Satellites and Thermometers
In a recent blog discussion with some unusually astute folks who are still concerned about human warming, the thread came to a dead-end at satellites and thermometers. It became clear that the real crux of the climate debate between well-studied … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Mount Whitney
Tagged GISS data adjustments
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The Ocean Ate It
One of the arguments one hears often these days to explain the lack of lower atmospheric warming for a human generation is that the ocean is somehow absorbing the “heat” or enthalpy that Carbon dioxide is supposed to be creating … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Global Warming, Oceanography
Tagged Ocean Heat Content, Thermosaline Subduction
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Ecology Now!
This exhortation has a strange ring to it now, and it is likely that no one under the age of fifty ever heard it, but the image above is a poster of an actual flag created by the activist organization … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Ecology, Ethics, History, Religion
Tagged Ecology now, Gaia, Holism, nationalism, Save our fire
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What Climate Sensitivity Should We Expect?
The great failing of climate science has been the inability to constrain the range of climate sensitivity to human CO2. The possible range remains from slightly negative to +5 degrees for a “doubling”. The concept emerged when the atmosphere was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, climate sensitivity, Dud PDO, Energy of Photons
Tagged Climate sensitivity
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The Homo erectus and the Climate Scientist.
Habilis probably had fire, but Homo erectus definitely had fire and he would have been around at the last glacial maximum to discuss with a climate scientist the dangers of burning a lot of campfires. He does not look impressed. … Continue reading
Pressure Broadening
In a recent blog post Dr. Roy Spencer took the skeptical community to task for a list of arguments he considers to lack merit. One of these was the argument that the CO2 absorption bands are saturated. He stated that … Continue reading
The Dud PDO Index of Climate Sensitivity
Climate sensitivity is the response of the climate system to a given increment of CO2. It is often expressed as the response to a “doubling” of this gas from a pre industrial level. Estimates of climate sensitivity are all over … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, climate sensitivity, Dud PDO, Global Warming, PDO
Tagged Pacific Ocean
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California Drought Update 4-14
For some reason the validated CDC data for March in San Francisco have been excruciatingly slow, and judging from local data will be revised down slightly. This is peculiar because it was raining hard as March came to a close … Continue reading
Everyone Loves Lists, Should We Worry or Not?
Take a big leap back in time. It is 1974, forty years ago. The planet has been cooling for thirty years. There is very real concern about this. The Pentagon is making Ice Age contingency plans. The scientific community is agnostic. … Continue reading
The Pacific Doughboy and the Core
Here at the Trunkmonkey Research Institute we’ve been possessed of late by the Doughboys. This representation is not really very good. It is a plate carree projection extruded as a box. Trouble is, when you bend it round like our … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geoid, Geology, LLSVP, LLSVP's are Doughboys, Seismic Tomography
Tagged Earth's magnetic field, LLSVP
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