By Vijay Jayaraj When researchers abandon empirical observation in favor of predetermined conclusions, science transforms into propaganda – something far more dangerous than the simple ignorance perpetuated. In climate sciences, funding agencies and international political bodies have dictated outcomes while authentic scientists faced systematic marginalization for questioning the prevailing narrative. The issue of climate change generates fierce debate among scientists, … Read more The p...| CO2 Coalition
What controls the frequency of tropical cyclones? Here’s an interesting review paper from 2021 on one aspect of tropical cyclone research, by a cast of luminaries in the field – Tropical Cyclone Frequency by Adam Sobel and co-authors. Plain language summaries are a great idea and this paper has one: In this paper, the authors […]| The Science of Doom
One Look at the Effect of Higher Resolution Models In #15 we looked at one issue in modeling tropical cyclones (TCs). Current climate models have actual biases in their simulation of ocean temperature. When we run simulations with and without these errors there are large changes in the total energy of TCs. In this article we’ll look […]| The Science of Doom
In #1-#6 of the “Extreme Weather” series we looked at trends in Tropical Cyclones (TCs) from the perspective of chapter 11 of the 6th assessment report of the IPCC (AR6). The six parts were summarized here. The report breaks up each type of extreme weather, reviews recent trends and then covers attribution and future projections. Both […]| The Science of Doom
Overview of Chapter 3 of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report The periodic IPCC assessment reports are generally good value for covering the state of climate science. I’m taking about “Working group 1 – the Physical Science Basis”, which in the case of the 6th assessment report (AR6) is 12 chapters. They are quite boring compared […]| The Science of Doom
In #9 we looked at an interesting paper (van Oldenborgh and co-authors from 2013) assessing climate models. They concluded that climate models were over-confident in projecting the future, at least from one perspective which wouldn’t be obvious to a newcomer to climate. Their perspective was to assess spatial variability of climate models’ simulations and compare them to […]| The Science of Doom
Originally, I thought we would have a brief look at the subject of attribution before we went back to the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6). However, it’s a big subject. In #8, and the few articles preceding, we saw various attempts to characterize “natural variability” from the few records we have. It’s a challenge. I recommend […]| The Science of Doom
In #5 we examined a statement in the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) and some comments from their main reference, Imbers and co-authors from 2014. Imbers experimented with a couple of simple …| The Science of Doom
Does storminess (extreme weather) go up as global temperature increases like the IPCC says? Or does it go down as the data says? Plus, a summary of my criticism of the AR6 WGI report.| Andy May Petrophysicist
The Wall Street Journal’s Saturday Essay by Steven E. Koonin, titled Climate Science is Not Settled follows WSJ’s standard playbook. Have a so-called expert either deny the science or a…| Global Warming: Man or Myth?
