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Climate Dialogue about the (missing) hot spot
Over at the Climate Dialogue website we start with what could become a very interesting discussion about the so-called tropical hot spot. Climate models show amplified warming high in the tropical troposphere due to greenhouse forcing. However data from satellites and weather balloons don’t show much amplification. What to make of this? Have the models been [...]
Dutch advice to IPCC: limiting the scope to human induced climate change is undesirable
Goverments around the world have been asked by IPCC to think about the future of the IPCC. The Netherlands now sent their submission to the IPCC and made it available on the website of KNMI. I would say Holland is fairly critical about how IPCC is operating right now. This part struck me as most [...]
Hans Labohm reacts to McKitrick: Please, no more taxes!
Hans Labohm read yesterday’s article about Ross McKitrick’s plan for a temperature-indexed carbon tax. Hans – as you will see – is not very positive about the proposal. He prepared a reaction for his DDS blog in Dutch. I asked him to provide an English translation which he kindly did. Ross McKitrick proposes new kind [...]
Can a carbon tax solve the politicisation of climate science?
Can a carbon tax solve the politicisation of climate science? That sounds like a weird question but in a yesterday published report of the GWPF economist Ross McKitrick claims the answer to this question could be “yes”. For that to happen we should introduce not a “normal” carbon tax but a “temperature-indexed” carbon tax. Now [...]
A Late 20th Century European Climate Shift: Fingerprint of Regional Brightening?
The shift in the Central Netherlands Temperature in 1987 My first peer reviewed paper is out. The full title is: A Late 20th Century European Climate Shift: Fingerprint of Regional Brightening? First author is Jos de Laat of KNMI. The idea for the paper was mine, but Jos certainly did most of the work. [...]
Cook’s survey not only meaningless but also misleading
The new Cook et al. survey of the scientific literature is attracting worldwide media attention and even the American president tweeted ("Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.") about it. Yesterday my own first reaction on twitter was: "All this talking about consensus http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/pdf/1748-9326_8_2_024024.pdf … doesn't improve our understanding of climate even a [...]
Thin Ice
I enjoyed watching Thin Ice, a documentary about climate science, that is freely available on the web for only a few days. The film is announced with the following introduction (bold mine): In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so geologist Simon Lamb took his camera to find out what is really [...]
