Archive for November 8th, 2009

RSS Global Temperature out for October – down, nearly identical to UAH

Here’s the plot from RSS – October is 0.282°C The RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data for

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MIT takes on the politics of climate fixes

Judith Layzer says there’s no easy way out when it comes to climate change — but that geo-engineering might be a last-ditch solution. From David Chandler, MIT News Office In the middle of a day

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Benefits Outweigh Costs of Reducing Emissions, say Economists

A survey by New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity states that 94% of a total of 144 economists that responded to a survey believe the United States should join climate

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UK environment chief seeks green skills base

Next month’s Copenhagen climate-change conference will be ‘the start to a process – not the end’, and should be followed by investment in green jobs and industries, says Lord

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Bureaucrats clash on shape of climate deal

Bureaucratic detail should be the last thing that prevents an agreement to save the planet from climate change. After all, the outline of the issue is simple: every government in the world now

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Open Invitation

UPDATE: Day 6 — This post has been up for about a week, and as you can see there has been some interesting and thoughtful discussion. Some of the discussion has been extremely useful for me

Boulder County Commisioner Will Toor on ClimateSmart

Boulder County Commissioner Will Toor sends in the following comments following a bit of discussion on this blog about the recent Boulder County ballot initiative on the ClimateSmart Loan Program

Kevin Rudd’s Gallery of Dangerous Deniers

I thought that it would be worth illustrating the sort of people that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd characterizes as climate deniers, people whose logic does not belong in any responsible

The Unstoppable Dirty Dozen

Science is good fun. Lately we’ve been working with an unnamed paleoclimatologist who goes by the handle of Delayed.Oscillator. He’s been good enough to answer some questions on

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Cybernetics of Climate – Slides

Here are the slides from the second time I’ve given a talk by this name.Update: This has generated enough interest that I will polish the slides and make them more legible and better able to

Siemens chief pushes for green framework

Siemens’ chief executive urged political leaders to create a global framework for a “green wave of industrialisation” at next month’s Copenhagen environmental summit, as he

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Kenya: Wind power project hits snag

Nation: The fate of Kenya’s largest green energy project hangs in the balance after a potential financier pulled out of the deal. The Lake Turkana Wind Power project, the largest of its kind

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Should Obama Attend the COP15 Copenhagen Climate Summit?

Time Magazine: The last time President Barack Obama made a trip to Copenhagen was in October – his sudden, last-minute effort to promote Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid – only to see

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Blackjack Rules Bleg

In comments at Volokh.com, people are discussing Blackjack trivia. In particular they are debating whether dealing an 8 deck game is a disadvantage for players. Theef started it all with this

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The Australian’s War on Science 41

Despite her training in law, Janet Albrechtsen was not able to figure out that the Copenhagen treaty wasn’t going to impose a COMMUNIST WORLD GOVERNMENT, so you just know that she has no

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EMD Estimates of Natural Variation

Our approach so far has been to model natural climate variation of global temperature with sinusoidal curves, and potential AGW as increasing trends. A new algorithm called EMD (Empirical Mode

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Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change

Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of calcium carbonate can tell you

The Climate Engine

What follows is a general theory of natural climate variation supported by observation of the changing temperature of the atmosphere and the sea between 1948 and September 2009. This work suggests

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American Folley

Please read this at Watts Up With That. We don’t have much time left and this is a true tipping point, the suffering will be of a greater magnitude than anything predicted by AGW

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