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Dangerously optimistic computer models

February 24, 2011 by Lou Grinzo
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I’d guess that most people here have seen the warnings that much of the computer modeling and other science done related to climate is slightly to very conservative. Not in the political sense, but in terms of not leaping to conclusions.[1] I’ve made the case repeatedly that this is a good thing, even in our current situation. The... [read more]

An Interesting Gripe

November 24, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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Never one to shy away from sticking his neck out, Ray Pierrehumbert (aka Raypierre) has actually submitted a top level article to Dot Earth. Ray's follow-up comment is especially interesting.There is so much uninformed comment here I don't know where to begin. So many people are complaining about the "open-ness" of climate modelling,... [read more]

UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change, 13-18 °F over most of U.S. and 27 °F in the Arctic, could happen within 50 years, but “we do have time to stop it if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon.”

September 28, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Finally, some of the top climate modelers in the world have done a “plausible worst case scenario,” as Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre, put it today in a terrific and terrifying talk (audio here). No, I’m not taking about a simple analysis of what happens if the nation and the world just keep on... [read more]

The path of Tropical Storm Danny

August 27, 2009 by Simon Donner
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I'll have more on what we should be saying about climate change shortly (there are couple interesting responses at the Energy Collective cross-post) .The model projections at right show that fourth named tropical storm of the Atlantic season is expected to take a path quite similar to that of Bill, interesting given how El Nino events... [read more]