In #1 we saw an example of natural variability in floods in Europe over 500 years. Clearly the large ups and downs prior to the 1900s can’t be explained by “climate change”, i.e. from burning fossil fuels. If you learnt about climate change via the media then you’ve probably heard very little about natural variability, but it’s […]| 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 #7 we looked at Huybers & Curry 2006 and Pelletier 1998 and saw “power law relationships” when we look at past climate variation over longer timescales. Pelletier also wrote a very similar paper in 1997 that I went through, and in searching for who cited it I came across “The Structure of Climate Variability […]| The Science of Doom
In #6 we looked in a bit more detail at Imbers and co-authors from 2014. Natural variability is a big topic. In this article we’ll look at papers that try to assess natural variability over long timescales – Peter Huybers & William Curry from 2006 who also cited an interesting paper from Jon Pelletier from 1998. Here’s […]| The Science of Doom
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The first efforts to use of wind to generate electricity was 134 years ago, and the photoelectric effect was discovered six decades earlier. So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with … Continue reading "Renewable Energy: A Timeline"| Legal Planet