by Donald Rapp
In a recent paper, Ellis and Palmer (2016) proposed that deposition of dust on giant ice sheets, thus reducing their albedo, was a principal factor in the termination of Ice Ages over the past 800 kyrs.
by Guido van der Werf
The 200% increase in fossil fuel emissions Murry Salby claims is about 20% in reality, and the constant CO2 growth rate he found actually increased by roughly 20% as well over the same time period.
by Nic Lewis
In a recently published paper (REA16),[i] Mark Richardson et al. claim that recent observation-based energy budget estimates of the Earth’s transient climate response (TCR) are biased substantially low, with the true value some 24% higher.
by Judith Curry
A new paper purports to have resolved the discrepancy between climate response estimates from global climate models versus energy budget models.
by Judith Curry
Some new analyses are shedding some light on deficiencies in the approach to estimate the social cost of carbon.
by Judith Curry
Four new papers remind us of the very large uncertainties surrounding cloud-climate feedbacks.
CERN
CERN’s CLOUD Experiment recently published three new papers:
by Nic Lewis
An update to the calculations in Lewis and Curry (2014).
by Greg Goodman
Inappropriate use of linear regression can produce spurious and significantly low estimations of the true slope of a linear relationship if both variables have significant measurement error or other perturbing factors. This is precisely the case when attempting to regress modelled or observed radiative flux against surface temperatures in order to estimate sensitivity of the climate system.
by Greg Goodman
Several of the major datasets that claim to represent “global average surface temperature” are directly or effectively averaging land air temperatures with sea surface temperatures.
