The Serengeti Strategy

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What is the Serengeti Strategy? “The Serengeti Strategy” is a term coined by climate scientist Michael Mann in which “special interests faced with adverse scientific evidence … target individual scientists rather than take on an entire scientific field at once.” His invention of the analogy must have been an interesting moment, given the context. In … Continue reading The Serengeti Strategy


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What is the role of the deep ocean in global warming? Climate science deniers get this wrong.

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What is the role of the ocean’s abyss in global warming?1 I’ve already posted on a study published in Nature Climate change that shows that the amount of extra global warming related heat in the Southern Oceans is greater than previously thought. There is another paper in the same journal by Llovel et al, “Deep-ocean … Continue reading What is the role of the deep ocean in global warming? Climate science deniers get this wrong.


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Interview with Michael Mann

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Last Sunday, I interviewed climate scientist Michael Mann on Atheist Talk Radio. I do occasional interviews there on science related topics (see this list of previous shows). You can listen to the interview here: Play Now I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Minnesota Atheists for giving me the opportunity to do these science … Continue reading Interview with Michael Mann


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Waving Good Bye To The Stadium Wave Model: About that global warming hiatus

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It is said that global warming has taken a break over the last decade or so. This is not true. Surface temperatures (air, sea surface, and ice) have increased over this period of time, though less so than previous years. Also, there are various indicators that the coming year or so may be extra warm, … Continue reading Waving Good Bye To The Stadium Wave Model: About that global warming hiatus


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A New Fake Report On Climate Change.

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Who What When Where Nic Lewis, an unaffiliated self described climate scientist, and a journalist, Marcel Crok, also unaffiliated, are known climate science denialists. The two of them have an objection to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conclusions regarding an important thing called “Climate Sensitivity.” Perhaps unable to get their work in the … Continue reading A New Fake Report On Climate Change.


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Ruh Roh. A crazy nutbag is saying scary things to me. Again.

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Climate change denialism has it’s Dave Mabus, and his name is Markus Fitzhenry. I just got this note slipped under my eDoor. You made a big mistake, lying about me. MEMBERS There is enlightenment coming, it will be a cleansing wind throughout academia. This is just the tip of an iceberg, that is going to … Continue reading Ruh Roh. A crazy nutbag is saying scary things to me. Again.


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Urban Heat Islands as Explanation for Hockey Stick Global Warming Curve

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Urban areas can be warmer than surrounding non-urban areas because there is a lot of combustion, pavement and other structure can collect solar heat and retain it for a while, and other factors. It is not uncommon to look at a weather map where conditions for precipitation are marginal, and everywhere but the urban zone, … Continue reading Urban Heat Islands as Explanation for Hockey Stick Global Warming Curve


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Roger Pielke Junior, I forgive you for this one thing

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Hi there, folks. This post should have been a tweet in response to Roger Pielke Jr (@RogerPielkeJr), professor of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, the guy who got fired by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight for, as I understand it, his anti-science positions on climate change. This is a response for a tweet by … Continue reading Roger Pielke Junior, I forgive you for this one thing


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The alleged hiatus in global warming didn’t happen, new research shows.

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There are two new scientific research papers looking at variation over the last century or so in global warming. One paper looks at the march of annual estimates of global surface temperature (air over the land plus sea surface, not ocean), and applies a well established statistical technique to ask the question: Was there a … Continue reading The alleged hiatus in global warming didn’t happen, new research shows.


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Steve McIntyre Misrepresents Climate Research History

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Who is Steve McIntyre? From DeSmogBlog.com: Stephen McIntyre has been a long-time mining industry executive, mostly working on the “stock market side” of mining exploration deals. He published a blog called Climate Audit where he attempts to analyse in sometimes long and extensive detail the work of climate change scientists where he documents “statistical mistakes” … Continue reading Steve McIntyre Misrepresents Climate Research History


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Heartland “Think” Tank Leaked Documents Posts

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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Canucks On Heartland Institute Payroll Breaking Heartless-news for Valentine’s Day: “Dissuading teachers from teaching science …” Breaking news: A look behind the curtain of the Heartland Institute’s climate change spin | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Brendan DeMelle | Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine Climate science … Continue reading Heartland “Think” Tank Leaked Documents Posts


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