There’s a recent news story that demands attention. It’s covered in today’s Real Climate posting, The unnoticed melt, which contains both bad news and some good. The good news is that it would be possible to stop the death-spiral of Arctic sea ice loss, given appropriate reductions in CO2. The bad news is that it […]
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The Eternal Return or: The Unbearable Wrongness of Spencer and Braswell
September 6, 2011 
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There is a concept in philosophy that posits that the universe will repeat itself, in an endless cycle of recurrence. This means that everything in your life will be repeated again and again and again… All your hard work trying to arrive at some vestige of truth, some facts you can rely on, some firm […]
Continue readingAnother one bites the dust… Editor of Remote Sensing Resigns Over Spencer-Braswell Pal Review
September 2, 2011 21 Comments
Denizens of the climate blogosphere will be familiar with Dr. Roy Spencer, who along with William D. Braswell, recently published an article titled “On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance” in an obscure open source journal Remote Sensing. Much ado was made of it at the time […]
Continue readingKeystone XL Pipeline — Game Over?
August 31, 2011 5 Comments
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the climate blogosphere. Perhaps the biggest news that has hardly garnered any headlines is the protest taking place on a daily basis and acts of civil disobedience by those hoping to call attention to the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is still under review by the Obama Admin. […]
Continue readingMann Vindicated — AGAIN!
August 22, 2011 11 Comments
The NSF OIG has concluded its review and has found no evidence that any of the claims of research misconduct against climate scientist Michael Mann had any basis in fact. Here is the text from the document, which you can read at this link: OIG Review NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE OF […]
Continue readingIs the perfect the enemy of the good?
August 12, 2011 54 Comments
In his latest book, The God Species, Mark Lynas argues that the green movement has been its own worst enemy in demanding perfection in climate policy when it is unachievable and results in forgoing “good enough” or “better than nothing.” Is this the case? Are green activists responsible for the failure of the political efforts […]
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