2016 State of the Climate Report

screen-shot-2016-12-26-at-10-33-41-amThe 2016 State of the Climate Report Presented to the United Nations Climate Conference in Morocco November 2016 gives an excellent and pithy summary on where things stand in regard to Global Warming and/or Climate Change and the manmade CO2 contribution, or non-contribution, to those important topics for anyone interested in the subject.

The report quotes University of London Professor Emeritus Philip Stott in the introduction: “The fundamental point has always been this. Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically selected factor (CO2) is as misguided as it gets…It’s scientific nonsense.”

Surprising Results From Study: Moderate Cold Kills More People Than Extreme Heat

On the Decrease of Hot Days in the US

curryja's avatarClimate Etc.

by Turbulent Eddie

Adjusted USHCN data indicate a decrease in CONUS hot days TMAX >= 100°F

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‘Truthiness’ and ‘factiness’ in politicized scientific debates

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by Judith Curry

The trappings of science can be decoupled from the actual rigor of science.

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The Politicization of Climate Science Is NOT a Recent Phenomenon

Bob Tisdale's avatarBob Tisdale - Climate Observations

There’s lots of yacking around the blogosphere and mainstream media about President-elect Donald Trump politicizing climate science. But it’s nothing new. Climate science became a tool for pushing political agendas almost 3 decades ago.

In 1988, the United Nations, a political body, founded the global-warming-report-writing entity called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC was created to support political agendas. And in 1995, politics corrupted climate science, when politicians changed the language of the IPCC’s second assessment report, eliminating the scientists’ statements of uncertainties.  To this day, the climate science community still cannot truly differentiate between natural and anthropogenic global warming.  Why?  The climate models used in attribution studies still cannot simulate modes of natural variability that can cause global warming over multidecadal timeframes. 

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